Biden and Trump increased the pace of the campaign this Thursday, touring the United States as the midterm elections approach, important for the remainder of the Democratic president’s term, or for an attempt to return the Republican magnate.
At a public university in New Mexico, Joe Biden praised his decision to partially erase the debts incurred by millions of Americans to pay for their studies, as well as other policies that “brought enormous progress to the country,” Agence France-Presse reported. (AFP).
The Democratic leader will also be in California, a state traditionally favorable to his party, on his way to Pennsylvania, a state in dispute, and Chicago (Illinois), another Democratic stronghold.
As the midterm elections on November 8 approach, the current head of state has adopted a double message, standing out as a defender of the working class and as a guarantee of democracy against Republican candidates willing to reject the results of the vote, like Donald Trump, who never admitted the choice of his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.
But the Republican mogul, who still maintains a tight grip on the GOP, also went on the offensive.
Trump had planned to visit four key states ahead of the elections in five days: Iowa this Thursday, a rural state in the “Midwest”, increasingly favorable to Republicans and where the campaign for the nomination of candidates for the White House traditionally begins . Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio follow.
These interims look more and more like a ‘proxy’ confrontation between these two figures, between the remainder of Biden’s term and a possible new confrontation in the 2024 presidential elections.
So far, Biden has expressed his intention to run again, but that prospect doesn’t necessarily appeal to all Democrats, given his age, soon to be 80, and his unpopularity.
A very strong defeat in these upcoming elections could further complicate this scenario of a second presidential term.
The elections on November 8 could not only change the face of the US Congress, but also bring to power governors and local officials totally committed to the ideas of Donald Trump.
To counter this hypothesis, in the small state of Rhode Island, the latest ad from the Democratic campaign uses images of the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 by supporters of Donald Trump, to warn of the risks of a Republican victory. .
It remains to be seen how far this speech and the last-minute efforts of figures like Barack Obama will go, while the dynamics of recent polls favor the Republicans.
The conservatives, for whom the polls already predict a victory in the House of Representatives, are now beginning to dream of winning the Senate.
So the GOP has spent the last few days criticizing the high prices and rising crime, blaming it on Joe Biden.
“From rising crime to sky-high inflation to an open border, New Mexico families deserve more than Biden’s failures,” GOP Leader Ronna McDaniel said as the Democratic president landed in this southwestern state. .
On the other hand, conservatives have scaled back anti-abortion messaging, while Democrats have pledged to uphold this right, which has come under threat in many US states since a controversial Supreme Court decision this year. .
Source: TSF
