U.S. President Joe Biden. Credit | REUTERS
United States – A new controversy has surrounded President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign after reports that key members of the Democratic Party have privately urged the president not to run for another term and that Donald Trump is expected to formally become the Republican candidate on Thursday at the party’s convention, as reported by Reuters.
Democrats Urge Biden to Step Aside
Recent reports in multiple news organizations state that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have all spoken directly to Biden in recent days and told him not only will he lose the White House but cost the Democrats any chance of regaining control of the U. S. House of Representatives in the November 5 election.
Biden’s Response and Recent Setbacks
Joe Biden, 81, has so far declined the pressures from 20 Democratic lawmakers to make way for younger candidates after the candidate’s rather awkward demeanor at the June 27 debate against Trump, 78.
His problems were exacerbated on Wednesday after he contracted COVID-19 while campaigning in Nevada; he had to return to his home in Delaware to continue to work while self-isolating.
On the other hand, Trump will climax the four-day Republican National Convention in Milwaukee by giving his first speech since he was involved in an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania on Saturday in which his ear was narrowly missed by a bullet.
Trump Poised to Secure Republican Nomination
The convention has shown solid Republican togetherness, unlike the divisions witnessed within the Democratic party. Ex-presidential contenders against Trump in the primaries, ex-U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, are among Trump’s key supporters despite they openly criticized him in the past.
Trump’s vice presidential nominee, who was a Trump critic just last year, painted himself Wednesday as the child of a forgotten industrial city in Ohio in need of a standard bearer in Washington.
J.D. Vance: The Rising Star of the GOP
Born into a working-class family, facing poverty during childhood, joining the Marines, studying at Yale Law School, becoming a venture capitalist, and now a candidate for the U.S. Senate, 39-year-old Vance used his own life story to convince ordinary Americans that he knows the hardships of their lives.
“I grew up in Middletown, Ohio, a small town where people spoke their minds, built with their hands, and loved their God, their family, their community, and their country with their whole hearts,” Vance said. “But it was also a place that had been cast aside and forgotten by America’s ruling class in Washington.”
As the first millennial candidate nominated to a major U.S. political party, a partisan Trump supporter, and a Republican Senate candidate from Ohio, Vance is well placed to be the future of the Make America Great Movement.
As a sign of his usefulness to the ticket, he also appealed particularly to the working and middle classes in the important swing states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—three states that are likely to determine the Nov. 5 election.
This makes Vance the youngest prime-time speaker in the nation, having become a member of a public office less than two years ago. He is among some other Republicans, like U.S. Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, who have rapidly shifted from opponents of Trump to his supporters to show that the party belongs to Trump.
For Trump’s political foes, his grip on the party unveiled a worse phase when he would actualize threats to centralize the presidency, punish perceived adversaries, and undermine the democratic tenets.
Vance would ‘advance an agenda that puts extremism and the ultra-wealthy over our democracy,’ the Biden campaign said on Wednesday.
Vance has criticized sending weapons to Ukraine and supported Trump’s efforts to overturn his loss of the 2020 election to Biden.
Democratic Concerns and Republican Criticism
It also contained many principles of Trumpism, including the pledge to make America greater and reduce imports from China. Trump told allies they would no longer be given ‘free rides’ when it came to maintaining international order, as reported by Reuters.
Other speakers in the evening used quite abusive language regarding Biden as opposed to the unifying tone that Trump promised after the shooting.
