2023-04-25 18:15:48
The announcement of the launch of Joe Biden for re-election was missing so that the ground began to clear for the presidential elections of November 2024 in the United States.
There are great chances that the fierce duel is reissued between Biden and Donald Trump and this battle is precisely one of the great reasons why the Democrat is once again competing for the White House. Is a huge personal effort: He is already the oldest president in history and, if he wins the next election, when his term ends I would be 86 years old.
Biden took very good care of his moves. He had let it be known that he would be running for re-election, but he did not officially announce it, in a move designed to no one dared to challenge him for leadership in the Democratic Party.
And he succeeded, especially after put the 2019 legislatures on his shoulder and with his message he managed to retain the Senate and lose the House of Representatives by a narrow margin, at a time when the United States was experiencing an unprecedented peak of inflation.
Biden then introduced himself as guarantor of democracy and freedom in the country in the face of extreme and violent republicanism embodied by Trump.
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Now he is looking to repeat that successful strategy. Even though I knowYour popularity does not exceed 40% and many believe that it is too old, is the best that the democrats have on the scene today: Vice President Kamala Harris has not taken off and there is no governor or legislator of a new generation who can shadow him or who can take on the furious Trump.
while the tycoon he has yet to win the internal party of his partypolls show him with a comfortable lead over his immediate follower, ultra-conservative Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, 45.
The president does not mention Trump by name in his 3-minute video released Tuesday. But the message is clear: it begins with scenes from the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
When Biden says the words “MAGA extremists”, the screen shows an image of Trump with his arm around DeSantis’s shoulder. While Biden’s team is betting that his opponent will likely be Trump, the president has already begun to increase your criticism of all Republicans.
The video focuses on highlighting Biden’s leadership valuesbut without mentioning any of his first-term legislative achievements or suggesting what he would do in a second term.
Not a word about the stimulus package for the economy and infrastructure or the fight against climate change. Nothing from the coalition that leads for the war in Ukraine, much less the battle against Covid.
Instead the message is intended to remind voters the threat to democracy and American values: Frames the 2024 election as “more freedom or less freedom,” with references to last year’s Supreme Court decision that struck down the constitutional right to abortion and conservative efforts to limit certain books in schools.
“Same candidates, same results”
“It is quite clear that Biden will not be seriously challenged for the Democratic nomination. All the pieces are fitting, as evidenced by the fact that his team did not feel rushed to make the announcement official. So, the question really is whether he can win the general election.”, said to Clarion Christopher Arterton, Professor Emeritus of Political Management at George Washington University.
And he adds: “My answer depends on who the Republican candidate is. At this point, it seems likely that we will have a repeat of the 2020 election: same candidates and same result”,
The pundit added: “But there is always the possibility that Biden faces a different candidate and that could change the character of the race. If Trump stumbles for the next 12 months, a younger candidate will accentuate Biden’s main disadvantage: your age”.
polls
The video seeks to show an active president, even in a incipient little trot. But age is an issue that voters look at, including Democrats. An NBC network poll released over the weekend found that 70% of Americans, including 51% of Democrats, believe that Biden shouldn’t apply, especially since they consider him too old. Likewise Democrats would vote for him.
“Age is the biggest issue for Biden,” says Arterton. “But age is linked and amplified by another problem, verbal gaffes de Biden.
In part, his stumbles are the result of his problems with stuttering, which he mostly outgrew when he was young. But every time he makes a mistake in a speech, it seems to many viewers that he is too old, too sick, too weak. So age and her speech impediment mutually reinforcing”.
Neither Biden’s agenda nor his message are likely to change immediately now that it is known that he is running for re-election. The president’s aides said he was expected to stick to the same issues he had focused on for months: highlighting the economy’s recovery and attacking Republicans on abortion, tax cuts, guns and bigotry.
But the release has an important side because fundraising will increase rapidly: The president’s top donors have been invited to a summit in Washington on Friday to begin raising money for a campaign that looks set to it will be fierce
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