US President Joe Biden is speeding up his re-election challenge in the 2024 presidential election by forming a large-scale election campaign group with influential Democratic Party politicians. If President Biden does not run, he is planning to reassure the Democratic Party supporters who are concerned about old age and low approval ratings by putting up heavyweight politicians, who were mentioned as strong Democratic Party presidential candidates, as signboards.
The Washington Post (WP) reported on the 2nd (local time) that “President Biden has set out to build a national advisory committee full of star politicians, including Democratic governors and senators, who will campaign on his behalf during the re-election campaign.” About 20 people are expected to join the advisory board, including Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, California Governor Gavin Newsom, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and Representative Ro Kanna, who were considered Democratic presidential candidates.
The WP said, “It is an effort to unify the party leadership and minimize public opinion against running for re-election within the party.” It is known that President Biden will officially declare a presidential run for his re-election early next month at the earliest. In the Democratic Party, writer Marianne Williamson announced that she would run for the presidency on the 4th, but people who were considered leading candidates for the presidency announced one after another that they would not run.
However, there are still voices of concern over the re-election challenge of President Biden, citing health reasons such as advanced age among the supporters of the Democratic Party. On the 14th of last month, a Reuters poll showed that 52% of Democratic supporters opposed President Biden’s re-election challenge. On the 3rd, White House physician Kevin O’Connor said of the skin lesions removed by President Biden during a health checkup last month, “The biopsy results confirmed basal cell carcinoma (a type of skin cancer).” It tends not to work,” he said.
Meanwhile, former President Trump won an approval rating of 62% in an unofficial poll by the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a Republican supporter meeting announced on the 4th, ahead of Florida Governor Ron Disantis (20%). At the time of last year’s CPAC poll, it was wider than the gap (31 percentage points) between former President Trump (59%) and Governor Disantis (28%).
Former President Trump said in a speech at CPAC that day, “I am your warrior and justice. He criticized mainstream Republican politicians, saying, “The Republican Party will no longer go back to the past, when geeks, neocons (new conservatives), and idiots ruled.” Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who has been defeated in the presidential election and is staying in the United States, also made a speech at the CPAC and argued for the expansion of gun rights.
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Source: Donga
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