After weeks of questions about his health and ability to run for a second term, US President Joe Biden announced on Sunday that he was withdrawing from the race.
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“To avoid the worst, Joe Biden exposes the Democratic system to a triple risk”said academic Bertrand Badie, a specialist in international relations, on franceinfo on Sunday July 21, following the announcement of the withdrawal of outgoing American president Joe Biden from the presidential race next November.
“First, there is an institutional risk, because the Democratic candidate will not be chosen according to regular procedures and the vote of Democratic electors.”explains Bertrand Badie. “The second risk is that of improvisation because we will have to invest in a candidate very quickly”he continues.
“The least we can say is that Kamala Harris’ candidacy was not prepared.”
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“The third risk, Bertrand Badie emphasizes, is that in the face of Kamala Harris, Donald Trump has become even more radical. We know that Trump is a misogynist. Faced with a female candidate, who is also from a minority background, Donald Trump will have an easy target for his electorate.” “The verbal excesses that we remember always succeed with him risk being sharpened by the candidacy of Kamala Harris, even if it is horrible to imagine.”believes the international relations specialist.
