A remote clash between Biden and Trump.
Joe Biden will try this time to put his finger on the wound to clarify the points he opposes to his opponent Donald Trump. The two will each speak Thursday, a year after the January 6 assault on the Capitol, to deliver two visions more irreconcilable than ever. Everyone knows what happened in detail is that thousands of supporters of his opponent Donald Trump tried to prevent the US Congress from certifying his election last year.
The former Republican President, and we're talking about Donald Trump, was the first to talk about it giving a press conference from his luxurious property in Florida.
And he wrote: "In the meantime, remember that the insurrection took place on November 3," the day of the presidential election, which the Republican claims, without the slightest proof, to have won. According to the polls, a majority of Republican sympathizers are also convinced.
This assault which shocked the whole of America and which Joe Biden will never be able to uplift, because it aims to destroy it and prevent it from spreading its democratic ideas. Indeed, Republican President Donald Trump, who lost the 2020 election by more than seven million votes to Democrat Joe Biden, therefore has no intention of keeping a low profile, despite the ongoing parliamentary inquiry. on his role and that of his relatives in this unexpected attack.
On the contrary, the former president is now focused on making a clear place in his party, by pushing aside those and those who do not buy into his speech of a stolen election.
“Trump's behavior is arguably unprecedented in American history. No former president has tried so hard to discredit his successor and the democratic process, "said Carl Tobias, professor of law at the University of Richmond.
How can Joe Biden, who will speak from Capitol Hill on Thursday, respond to the same place where thousands of supporters of his Republican opponent have tried to prevent the US Congress from certifying his election?
The president reiterates that American democracy is at a "tipping point," and assures us that he, Joe Biden, can save it.
Since his election, he has been loath to face the “other guy” or “the guy from before” head-on - the formulations used by the president and by the White House, especially not to name the one that, perhaps, it will be necessary. face again in the 2024 presidential election.
Officially, Joe Biden is planning to run again, and the Republican is hinting he is thinking about it.
For Lara Brown, professor of political science at George Washington University, "President and Vice President (Kamala) Harris cannot go on this ground" of direct verbal attack "because they do not want to give. the impression of a “witch hunt” ”orchestrated from the White House, to use an expression dear to Donald Trump.
"Naivety"
"The Biden administration thought that by making good political decisions this would all go away, but I think that is naïveté," she adds.
According to Joe Biden, the best way to counter Donald Trump would be to reconcile the American middle class with representative democracy, by guaranteeing it jobs, purchasing power and a certain serenity in the face of globalization.
But the president is struggling to deliver the expected results: the United States is suffering with immense weariness a new wave of the pandemic, its major social reforms are blocked in Congress, the cost of living is increasing ...
Rachel Bitecofer, a strategist close to the Democratic camp, thinks Joe Biden should face the former businessman and the Republican Party more harshly.
Faced with a Donald Trump who has just supported, by way of a press release, the ultra-conservative Hungarian leader Viktor Orban, "we must be very frank about what that means", she judges.
This is, according to Rachel Bitecofer, a way for the former president "to signal what he wants for America and this is not a democratic future."
But, she laments, "there is a real reluctance to admit how fierce the right-wing attack on democracy is."
“The current threats against democracy are real and worrying,” Judge Carl Tobias. He believes, however, that "the United States overcame much more dangerous crises, in particular the Civil War."