{"id":13535,"date":"2023-04-27T17:40:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T14:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=13535"},"modified":"2023-04-27T17:41:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T14:41:00","slug":"again-the-sequel-biden-vs-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=13535","title":{"rendered":"Again the sequel Biden vs Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

D\u00e9j\u00e0 vu is indeed rare in US presidential elections. The last time this happened was in 1956, when Republican Dwight Eisenhower ran for a second term against Democrat Adlai Stevenson. For the record, Eisenhower won the elections then by a large margin – as he had done in 1952.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nearly seven decades later, history seems to be repeating itself, at least in terms of the\u2026 rematch between two presidential candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five months after Donald Trump announced that he would run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that he will run for re-election at the age of 82.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite his advanced age (not that the 76-year-old Trump is a \u2026 new boy), the question lately in Washington has not been if the incumbent president will run again, but when.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No serious intra-party challenger has emerged among the Democrats. So far, only two nominations have been made for the party’s nomination, and those are from the author Marian Williamson and Robert Kennedy, a lawyer, anti-vaccinationist and nephew of the assassinated president JFK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, Democrats have long rallied around Baden and his central slogan, “Let’s get the job done.” It was boosted by strong results for Democrats in last November’s midterm elections, despite inflation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the reasoning in the ranks of the party in favor of the Biden candidacy – against the recorded reaction of the voters – is that, after he managed to defeat Trump in 2020, he can do it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, it is estimated that the Trump candidacy is in the hands of the current occupant of the White House. It reminds voters of all the reasons they voted for Biden in the first place, as well as those that have since emerged, amid extreme polarization and the rise of Trumpism.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Trump\u2026against everything<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although common sense would dictate otherwise, Donald Trump’s “stocks” have risen among Republicans following his impeachment in New York: a historic first for a former US president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the pile of legal cases and investigations pending against him, he now has a clear lead in the polls over his potentially strongest internal party rival: Ron DeSandis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than half of Republicans consider the former president a more “strong leader.” Just 41% today believe DeSandis would have a better chance of beating Joe Biden. At least at this stage, 70% of Republicans who say they will vote in the primary for the party’s presidential nominee support Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former president is now beating Ron DeSandis’ own “backyard”, having already secured the support of more than a third of Republican lawmakers in the Florida state House and Senate. The governor’s supporters argue that this is not a paradox, given that DeSandis has not – yet (?) – entered the race for the Republican nomination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far, however, just three Republican state lawmakers have publicly said they would support his nomination. Meanwhile, it has begun to lose momentum, after the extremist policies implemented by DeSandis in Florida: from education to business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republican donors have begun withdrawing support they had originally given the governor. Many now describe him as a “bad impression” of Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The “Old Wolf” Joe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Against the background of all this, President Biden – who is also under investigation for his handling of classified documents from his time as US vice president – believes he has the momentum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is no longer casting himself as the transition president, as he did in 2020, promising to heal the “soul of the nation” from the Trump era\u2014which he has failed to do. Now he is seeking a second term as the changeling president, who will lead the country safely through the “Confederates” of a difficult time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the deeds of his first term and the fact that he is already the oldest president of the USA do not cause voters\u2026 shivers of excitement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joe Biden’s approval rating is “stuck” near 40% after the fiasco in Afghanistan, 2021. His economic policy – sorely tested by inflation and the energy crisis, a fallout from the war in Ukraine – is disapproved by 58% in the poll of NBC. Overall, only 41% of the total, and even 30% among independent voters, characterize his presidential work as positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rematch anyway?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s no surprise that in almost all polls, the majority of Americans do not want\u2026 a sequel to the 2020 presidential duel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to NBC, for example, just 1 in 4 think President Biden should run for re-election, and only 35% think former President Trump should run again. Only 5% favor a rematch between this “twin”. 38% want neither.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of these, 58% are Democrats who in 2020 had supported the candidacies of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. 51% are aged 18-34. 49% women aged 18-49. 48% say they are moderate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, what unites the Democrats is the possibility of Donald Trump returning to the White House. The prospect of them taking back the “reins” of power is what is rallying around him – at least until now – the Republicans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the good news for Biden is that more Americans have a favorable opinion of him than Trump (38%, vs. 34%) and fewer have an unfavorable opinion (48% vs. 53%). In the hypothetical question of a presidential rematch in 2024, the current president appears to have a slight lead over the former.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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