On the complex web of US politics, anything can happen. Opinions differ. Some believe that it is too early to write off the race for Biden, while other analysts think that allowing him to go on the November 5 ballot would be suicide for the Democrats.
Biden defends the concept that the November 5th elections are still a long way off, in line with what he expressed in his latest public appearances when he noted that the campaign starts now (in less than four months to Election Day).
A poll released on Friday weeks after Biden’s ill-fated debate with Trump in Atlanta, unfolded that the presidential race is unchanged, so it is statistically tied.
The new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist national poll found that he gained one point since last month’s pre-debate poll. In this poll, Biden, with 50%, leads Trump, who got 48%, in an eventual matchup, but that is a number that falls within the margins of error.
Nonetheless, the close result is an indicator that to some extent gives reason to Biden, who maintains, despite calls for him to step aside, that he is the nominee, as he repeated on Friday evening in Detroit, Michigan, at a campaign rally.
However, fissures are increasingly being felt within the ranks of his party over calls for him to hand the flag to another candidate who could actually beat Trump, “and I’m going to beat him again,” he said on Friday in Michigan.
Biden’s first stop upon arriving in that state -key in the upcoming elections- was in Northville and then he continued on to Detroit Renaissance High School, Detroit, where cheered by an enthusiastic audience chanting ‘Don’t go away’, he promised that he will win there again in 2024.
The president repeated that he will continue to move forward in his campaign and as the voters decided and “no one else,” so “(…) I’m not going anywhere.”
Biden focused his attacks on Trump and the so-called Project 2025, the ultra-conservative platform with which the Republican would govern if he returned to the White House, thus he criticized his opponent’s agenda.
At least 17 Democrats in Congress publicly urged the president to abandon the candidacy because they do not believe he will manage to avoid the shipwreck in November, while strong donors, apparently, plugged the money pipeline, and that would be a problem, because making politics in the United States costs, and a lot.
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