United States – With Donald Trump almost claiming the status of a GOP presidential nominee, President Joe Biden is sure to draw out the differences between Trump’s and Biden’s ideas about what America stands for.
The former South Carolina Governor Niki Haley who is anticipated to announce on Wednesday on pulling out of the republican presidential race is set to have a Trump-Biden rematch that will take place on Nov. 5, as reported by Reuters.
Biden’s Campaign Challenges
At age of 81, Biden and his team have been on the road through the USA to fund-raise and talk about Biden’s successes in the next four years.
They have been successful with fundraising as much as they have struggled to allay fears and doubts about his fitness and age and kill the national and state polls, which show him barely leading or losing to Trump.
In return, Biden has instructed his top advisors to intensify the attacks on Trump, and sometimes offensive language in private meetings is used to label the Republican presidential candidate, as informed by two sources concerned on the matter.
Low Approval Ratings and Negative Campaigns
Some strategists have recommended that this effort should be focused on making Trump’s approval rating fall rather than attempting to restore Biden’s approval, as they would be happy about the high level of mistrust among a large fraction of the citizens that the latter is a clear and present danger to democracy.
As we are counting ballots, Biden himself sounded it through the Super Tuesday State nomination contest.
“Tonight’s results leave the American people with a clear choice: Are we going to keep moving forward, or will we allow Donald Trump to drag us backward into the chaos, division, and darkness that defined his term in office,” he said in a statement.
Trump was triumphant in the GOP primaries held across 15 states on Tuesday with the voting ending. He is virtually a cusp of the Republican Party’s official presidential nomination, a fact that could trigger Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden again, the only time when Biden defeated him in his first presidential run.
The campaigns from both men feature tight races in national polls, which means critical period of negative advertising by the respective candidate’s campaign.
Biden is hoping to use his State of the Union address to Congress on Thursday to help sharpen those contrasts.
He then heads to the battleground states of Pennsylvania on Friday and Georgia on Saturday to kick off the general election campaign in earnest.
Biden’s State of the Union Focus
Biden spent last weekend at the Camp David presidential retreat working on his State of the Union speech, which will include principally economic growth, inflation, and policies. According to the communications director, Ben LaBolt, these are the issues he will address.
LaBolt said Biden will highlight the contrast between his own policies and “the MAGA Republican agenda: rewarding billionaires and corporations with tax breaks, taking away rights and freedoms, and undermining our democracy,”
MAGA is a shorthand for “America First,” which is the campaign slogan that propelled Trump to the presidency and remains a cornerstone of his domestic policy agenda.
Biden’s campaign officials believe there has been relative indifference to age and performance toward Biden, whereas Trump, who has an age advantage of nearly ten years over Biden, has been completely immunized from such perceptions. Moreover, after Super Tuesdays, this issue may be addressed, and the spirits of the voters with no sense of zeal may be lifted as there could be no new candidatures.
One particular data point is troubling Democrats: Polling shows that voters’ attitudes toward Trump’s policies and his presidency have softened over time.
Shifting Voter Attitudes
According to a poll conducted by New York Times, 10% of Mr. Biden’s 2020 voters have switched to Trump, while there hardly were any Trump’s voters who deflected to Biden.
“It’s a weird election. There’s a saying that elections are about the future, but this is the only election I know that is about the past. It’s pretty clear that right now, we are losing the war on the past,” said Democratic strategist James Carville.
Democrats who don’t support Biden’s unwavering support for Israel as they wage war against Hamas in Gaza are rebelling against him.
On Friday, as Biden goes to Pennsylvania, members of his government’s top advisers will visit Colorado, Kentucky, and the battleground states of Arizona and Michigan, as reported by Reuters.
On Saturday, Biden and Trump will visit Georgia, a state that Biden turned from red to blue in 2020.
