Withdrawal from Nikki Haley of the Republican primaries accelerated the fight for the presidential election between the current president, a Democrat Joe Bidenand his predecessor, a conservative Donald Trumpwho practically set themselves up as candidates because they remain without opponents.
The decision of the former American ambassador to UN It happened a day after on Super Tuesday, a day in which primaries were held in fifteen states, he managed to defeat Trump only in Vermont, a state that distributed 17 of the total 865 Republican delegates at stake.
Haley broke her silence from the previous day with a public statement this Wednesday morning. “The time has come for me to suspend my campaign (…) Now it’s up to Trump to win the votes of those inside and outside our party who didn’t support him. And I hope he will,” he said in Charleston, in his home state (South Carolina ).
Trump is already piling on 1,051 from 1,215 delegates he needs to mathematically declare himself the Republican nominee, while Biden adds, according to the ABC News figure 1,568 from in 1968 thereby guaranteeing the nomination at his party’s convention this August in Chicago.
Trump can mathematically confirm his presidential candidacy on March 12, and Biden, most certainly, on March 19.
Republican leadership in House of Representatives This Wednesday, he welcomed the state of the race.
“We are very happy with last night’s results. The race is decided. Now it will be a rematch and we like that rematch. Trump’s message resonated with the American people because it is not an unproven theory. (…) In “His Administration achieved the largest economy in of world history,” said the president of that chamber, Mike Johnson.
It seems that next November, just as it happened in 2020, citizens will once again have to decide at the polls between Biden and Trump. The same applicants, but a different situation, as explained to EFE William DunlapProfessor of Law at Quinnipiac University.
“People already have an idea of how both of them work in office. In 2016, nobody knew Trump. In 2020, they got to know him, and now they got to know Biden and how he behaves as president. So it’s going to be a very close election. more information than before four years,” he says.
It didn’t take long for Biden to rally Haley’s voters to join his cause this Wednesday.
“I know there are many things we will disagree on. But on fundamental issues like preserving American democracy, defending the rule of law, treating each other with decency, dignity and respect, preserving ON THAT and face America’s adversaries, I hope and believe we can find common ground,” he said in a statement.
Haley has won only Vermont and the District of Columbia so far, and it remains to be seen who her supporters will choose in November.
“I guess if you asked them now, they’d stay home because they can’t vote for either of them, but that doesn’t mean any of them or even most of them can bet on Trump because they like him more than Biden, or vice versa. We do not know. And that will be a big topic for analysis in the coming months,” Michael Cornfield, a political scientist at George Washington University, told EFE.
The Democratic leadership in the House of Representatives also clearly pointed out the differences between one side and the other today.
“The contrast couldn’t be greater. We are the ‘normal team’. We want to fund important government priorities that raise the quality of life for every American. The Republicans are the ‘extremist team.’ he has 91 serious crimes behind him,” said the lawmaker. Pete Aguilar.
Trump, 77, There are four open criminal caseswhile Biden, 81, has seen increasing criticism over whether he is physically and mentally fit to hold office, despite the fact that his doctor’s latest report has cleared doubts in that regard.
In any case, Dunlap believes, the bipartisan conventions this summer to confirm the nominations will be practically a bureaucratic meeting: “The official nomination won’t be as important as usual because the race will already be on.”
Source: Panama America
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