The American president is almost guaranteed to win the Democratic Party nomination for the November 2024 election, despite his unpopularity and barring any major surprises or serious health problems.
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Does he go there reluctantly? “If (Donald) Trump was not a candidate” in the 2024 US presidential election, “I’m not sure I would run.”declared the current American head of state Joe Biden on Wednesday December 6.
“He’s going and I have to go (…), we can’t let him win”, added the Democratic president who will seek a second term in the November presidential election, about his Republican predecessor. Donald Trump is being prosecuted, among other things, for “conspiracy against the American state”, after trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
“Trump doesn’t even hide anymore. He tells us what he’s going to do”, underlined the 81-year-old Democrat during a meeting with Democratic donors near Boston. Questioned by Fox News in a program broadcast Wednesday, the former Republican president refused to declare that he would not abuse his powers if he were re-elected, and recently described his opponents as “vermin”a term echoing Nazi rhetoric according to the White House.
Democracy at stake
If his rival withdrew, would he do the same? “No, not now”, swept the president. Joe Biden, whose campaign is struggling to get off the ground, has long said he is best placed to beat Donald Trump again. The Democrat, whose age worries voters and who struggles to sell his economic record, regularly repeats that democracy itself is at stake in this new confrontation announced with the former businessman.
Despite his unpopularity and barring any major surprises or serious health problems forcing him to withdraw, the American president is almost guaranteed to win his party’s nomination for the November 2024 election. Donald Trump, for his part, is for now the big favorite in the Republican primary.