Posted 21 октября 2021,, 16:39

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He just can not manage it! Biden goes to the bottom, while Trump comes to the surface

He just can not manage it! Biden goes to the bottom, while Trump comes to the surface

21 октября 2021, 16:39
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According to polls conducted by the influential sociological center Quinnipiac University, the current approval rating for the US president has dropped to 37 percent, while in February this year it was 54 percent.

Evgeniy Bai

But this is not yet the worst news both for the owner of the White House himself, there and for his Democratic Party. According to the same university, Biden is now inferior in popularity to ex-President Donald Trump - the first has 40 percent of support, the second has 41. "This is a disaster," say pollsters from among the Democrats.

What happened to Biden?

"It's economy, you fool!"

He spent the first six months after taking office quite confidently. The nation turned a blind eye to the fact that the new leader stumbled as he climbed the ladder of the presidential plane and often forgot the names of prominent figures in his cabinet and foreign leaders. Citizens attributed this to their venerable age and said: "Well, he knows the matter!"

The implication was that, despite the de facto parity in Congress between Democrats and Republicans, Biden managed to get through rather quickly a $ 1.9 trillion economic stimulus package on the Capitol. It was assumed that he would continue to be so lucky, taking into account his experience as a negotiator, after all, it was not without reason that he served in Congress for almost three decades.

But then a desperate slip began. Two other ambitious infrastructure projects, already worth $ 3.5 trillion, are left hanging in the air, not only because of Republican resistance, but also because of friction among Democrats in the House of Representatives.

Biden's rating began to fall in August. Of course, the ill-conceived, chaotic, on the verge of insanity withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan played its role, but the effect of this failure now remains only in the perception of America's foreign partners, and in America it quickly evaporated. But here they remembered the slogan of Bill Clinton "This is the economy, you fool!", With which he successfully ran for president in the early 90s.

In this first year of Biden's presidency, Americans are faced with rising prices for literally everything from gasoline to food. This growth was 5.4 percent, the highest since 2008.

"Political danger, the arrival of which Biden did not notice," - writes the Politico edition. Experts believe that he paid too much attention to his global infrastructure projects and lost sight of the rapidly raising his head inflation. “I'm very worried”, - says former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. "I believe we are facing a very difficult situation due to high inflation".

Now, according to the Pew Research Center, 63 percent of Americans are very concerned about the continued rise in prices for food and other goods. Their sentiments are easily conveyed by the Republicans in Congress. “It will be a winter of high gasoline prices, shortages of goods and inflation due to the fact that our government is controlled by ultra-left sleepwalkers,” says Senator Marco Rubio.

For Democrats, high inflation and rising prices, meanwhile, are becoming a sensitive political issue. The economic downturn and high inflation have always wreaked havoc on the ruling party in the midterm congressional elections. But in 2022, the Democrats may face a particularly severe blow. According to all forecasts, they will lose the current, not too impressive majority in both chambers.

As pollsters Gallup say, "if the president's rating is above 50 percent, then his party in the midterm elections to Congress following the election of the head of state will lose 14 seats in the House of Representatives, but if his rating is below 50 percent, then the loss will already be 37 seats."

One example: In 2018, Republicans lost 40 seats in the House after Trump's approval rating dropped to 40 percent. And now the Democrats may face even the worst scenario.

But, of course, it's not just economic failures. In addition to inflation and rising prices, Americans are worried about at least two other topics: covid and the immigration crisis.

Covid does not retreat

The coronavirus pandemic remains a monstrous headache for this nation. In the United States, 729 thousand people have died since February 2020, more than 45 million have become infected. And although the number of infections is now declining (over the last week it fell by 14 percent), the number of deaths has returned to the level of March this year - -2 thousand per day.

Biden's promise to vaccinate 70 percent of the population by early July so that fellow citizens can celebrate Independence Day has not been fulfilled. In the United States, there are counties where up to 80 percent of the population was vaccinated, but there are entire states, mainly in the "red" - republican zone, where the number of vaccinations is less than 50 percent.

“People don't feel like their lives have improved,” says Sarah Longwell, a Republican strategist who backed Biden in the 2020 election. “People see that the president’s promises are not being fulfilled”.

“It's a coronavirus, you fool!” Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg echoes her. “It's not enough for Biden to get his infrastructure problems through Congress. He must take control of the covid, otherwise he will end".

But there is no glimpse on the horizon. Biden seems to have lost interest in the topic of the pandemic, and this is causing undisguised disappointment among Americans. Once they gave their votes to Barack Obama, considering him an eloquent brilliant politician. But then it turned out that he was like a president "neither fish nor meat." The same thing happens with Biden. The activity of the owner of the White House, who turns 80 in November, is declining from month to month. The nation most often simply does not know what the president is doing.

Biden is Trump today

Biden's attempts to solve the immigration crisis were also a complete failure. During the election campaign and then, joining the White House, Biden tried to show that he is not Donald Trump, that the current presidential team will not build a wall on the border with Mexico, will not brutally expel immigrants, as it was under his predecessor.

But everything turned out exactly the opposite. Yes, in the beginning, Biden raised the quota for admitting immigrants to 125 thousand people a year and legalized the presence of tens of thousands of Haitians on American soil. But these actions only provoked a crisis on the US-Mexico border. Thousands of Haitians flocked there, attracted by the promises of America's new president. The whole world was covered by footage of how 15 thousand citizens from the "island of bad luck" gathered under the bridge over the river in the border town of Del Rio, Texas. And then those who tried to cross the border began to press on horses by Texas cops in cowboy hats. The White House criticized these actions by the Texas authorities, but decided to start a massive deportation of Haitians.

"Look, Biden started acting just like Trump," shouted leftists in the House of Representatives, who are called "progressives." By the way, the president had problems with these "servants of the people" for a long time. Gratitude for electoral support is not known to be a virtue for elected leaders. This is how Biden tried to distance himself from the left with their "racial revolutions" and the struggle against monuments. But he is not good at taking a worthy place between them and the moderate democrats. As Ernest Hemingway said to Scott Fitzgerald, "if you love two women, in the end you will lose both."

But worst of all for Biden, he is rapidly losing ground among his mainstream support groups - blacks, hispanics - Hispanics and women. The former had losses of 18 percent, the latter -16, and the third -12. And if the elections were repeated now, then Trump would have won in a number of vacillating states, and he would have remained the President of the United States.

"Worst Nightmare"

Most Americans after last year's elections were confident that they would never see Donald Trump at the White House again. “His song has been sung,” they said. "Deprived of his beloved Twitter, he is unlikely to be able to influence the political life of the country from his suburban residence in Florida".

They were wrong. As the New York Times writes, "we all underestimated Trump".

Once bankrupt in the real estate market, this gentleman rose and was able to recreate his business empire. The same is happening now with his political capital. According to Newsweek, 78 percent of Republicans are willing to vote for him in the 2024 election. According to the congressional newspaper The Hill, Trump is followed by former Vice President Mike Pence (13 percent) and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (9 percent). And quite in the tail are Nikki Haley, who represents the United States in the UN, and Florida Senator Marco Rubio with 3 percent. At the same time, both Pence and DeSantis say that they will not stand for their candidacy if Trump participates in the elections.

Unbelievable, but true - in the "big old party", as the Republicans call themselves, there was no one, except for one more elderly fanfare with his clown, whom his opponents call "cancer".

So far, Trump has not officially announced his nomination. But Biden also did not make it clear that he was ready to limit himself to one term. However, bets have already begun to be placed on them, and two of the largest US bookmakers have named Trump the favorite of 2024. He was given strength and energy by the fact that the overwhelming majority of Republicans fully supported his slogan that the elections were stolen from him by the Democrats. And this was multiplied by the hatred of white Americans for the Democrats, who "began to build socialism in America with a black face".

The Democrats are already ringing all the bells. The Washington Post headlined its editorial, "The Trump Nightmare Is Coming Back to Life." The Metropolitan newspaper concludes its warning to the nation with the words: “The catastrophe is already in the next room. The weather report shows the apocalypse".

But maybe a catastrophe, albeit with a different face already in the same room with America?

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