Biden’s resignation|Many Democrats have lined up behind Vice President Kamala Harris, but some of the party would like to have an open discussion about the new presidential candidate.
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Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race to give Democrats a better chance of defeating Donald Trump.
Many support Vice President Kamala Harris to replace Biden.
Harris’ candidacy is not yet certain, as an open primary is also possible.
Although Harris has weaknesses, he is seen as a better candidate than Biden.
If vice president Kamala Harris is selected as the new candidate of the Democrats, Biden’s sacrifice to give up the presidential race may be in vain.
This is the assessment of a researcher at the Center for the Study of American Politics and Power at the Foreign Policy Institute Maria Lindén.
Many in the Democrats took on Sunday with pleasure president Joe Biden the decision to give up the presidential candidacy. The candidacy of Vice President Kamala Harris, who is now running for the Democratic presidential nomination, is supported by both Biden and a number of other prominent Democrats.
Biden’s abandonment of the candidacy has been thought to give the Democrats a chance to defeat the former president, the Republican Donald Trump. Based on opinion polls, defeat would have been almost certain if Biden had stayed in the race.
Researcher at the Foreign Policy Institute, Maria Lindén.
Linden doesn’t think Harris’s chances of beating Trump are very high.
“Now I don’t want to say that there aren’t any possibilities, but if Biden was a really bad candidate for the Democrats, Harris is also really bad,” says Lindén.
Although Lindén believes that the Democrats’ chances are better now than when Biden was the candidate, he finds it special how quickly the party got behind another bad candidate.
“If the whole purpose was to improve the chances of winning, then shouldn’t we find a candidate with the best chances of winning”, wonders Lindén.
However, Harris’ candidacy has not yet been announced in the church.
Among the influential members of the party, for example, the majority leader of the Senate Chuck Schumerthe House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries or former Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi have not sided with Harris, write the American The New York Times.
Another way to choose a new candidate would be an open party meeting. Then there could be the governor of Pennsylvania competing for the presidential nomination along with Harris Josh Shapiro and Governor of California Gavin Newsom names like
University of Helsinki professor Mikko Saikku
Harris’s the professor of American studies at the University of Helsinki is more optimistic about the possibilities than Lindén Mikko Saikku. He believes that anyone is a better candidate for the Democrats than Biden.
“People are disgusted by the fact that there have been two men in their eighties facing each other,” Saikku says.
“Whoever the Democratic candidate becomes now, he will be younger and more dynamic than Biden. However, the ranks of the party must be put in order as quickly as possible.”
Also Saikku recognizes the challenges of Harris’ candidacy.
According to him, Harris is a good candidate on paper, but he has many weaknesses that Trump and his vice presidential candidate By JD Vance is easy to grasp.
An example is the southern border of the United States. His task in the administration was to find solutions to curb the immigration coming from there, but no results have been produced.
“Most Americans think there is a problem at the border. Migration and the number of asylum seekers have grown explosively, and the infrastructure of the United States is in trouble with it,” says Saikku.
Lindén, on the other hand, points out that Harris did not succeed even in the 2020 primaries when he sought the presidential nomination himself. Since then, his support has not increased but, on the contrary, decreased.
In addition, Harris is associated in people’s minds with the current administration. If voters want change, Harris may not represent a big enough change.
Lindén does not believe that the American people are ready for a president who is both a minority representative and a woman.
Mixed Despite the challenges, Saikku and Lindén see Harris’s Biden as a better candidate for the Democrats.
Saikku also points out that although Trump’s situation has looked good in opinion polls, he has never gotten more than half of the American voters behind him.
“He has his own group of enthusiastic supporters, but there are also a lot of people in the Republican Party who hate him,” says Saikku.
As an example, he mentions actors in the business sector, many of whom are really uncomfortable with the threat of a trade war hinted at by Trump and Vance.
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