As Joe Biden and Donald Trump inch closer to a rematch in November, primary voters across the country on Tuesday They urged their preferred candidate to continue the fightworried about what might happen If your team loses this fall (Boreal).
There was little suspense regarding Tuesday’s results, given that both candidates are already the presumptive nominees of their respective parties.. Trump easily won Republican primaries in Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Kansas and Ohio. Biden also won, except in Florida, where Democrats canceled the primaries and decided to award their 224 delegates to Biden.
The primaries and elections for minor offices have become a mirror of the country’s political mood. Like many Americans They are not enthusiastic about the 2024 presidential electionthe Biden and Trump campaign teams are working to mobilize their bases by attacking each other and warning of the adversary’s dangers.
Who went to vote on Tuesday They seemed to have heard him.
A voter holds up a sign that reads “Stop Biden. Save America.” Photo: AP Pat Shackleford, 84-year-old caregiver from Mesa, Arizonahe said he voted for Trump in the Arizona primary to send a message to the former president.
“I wanted to give him encouragement telling him that it was worth it, that there are more of us supporting him than maybe the media is saying,” Shackleford said.
Jamie and Cassandra Neal, sisters who live in Phoenix, said they are not enthusiastic Biden supporters until they saw the vigor that the president delivered in his State of the Union address. This mobilized them for the next elections.
“I used to think, ‘Well, he’s the only decent one,’” said Cassandra Neal, 42. “After her speech I thought: ‘Okay, let’s do it!'”
Jamie Neal, 45, said Biden was “too nice” and needed to do the same as Trump, who he described as “aggressive”.
“I hate to say it, sometimes it’s necessary equalize the vileness to remove the person”, he indicated. “Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire.”
The focus on the most contested states
Trump and Biden have been focused on the general election for weeks and have recently focused their campaign states that could be contested in November instead of just those holding primaries.
Trump, a voter from Florida, voted Tuesday at a Palm Beach recreation center and told reporters: “I voted for Donald Trump.”
Together with the reappearance of Melania Trump, the former president declared yesterday in Florida that he had voted for himself. Photo: AP Trump and Biden They base their campaign on their performance in office and present the other as a threat to the United States. Trump, 77, paints Biden, 81, as mentally incompetent. The president calls his Republican rival a threat to democracy after his attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election and his praise of foreign authoritarian leaders.
ThatThe themes were obvious Tuesday at some polling stations.
“President Biden, I don’t think he knows how to tie his shoes anymore.said Linda Bennet, a Trump supporter and resident of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, not far from the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
While he echoed Trump’s arguments about Biden, he criticized Trump’s rhetoric and “the way he carries himself.” “nothing presidential”. But he said the former president is “a man of his word” and that the country, especially the economy, appears stronger under Trump’s leadership.
In Columbus, Ohio, Democrat Brenda Woodfolk voted for Biden and agreed with the way the president is laying out the options this fall.
“It’s scary”, he said of the prospect of Trump occupying the Oval Office again. “Trump wants to be a dictator, he talks about making America white again and all that nonsense. “There’s too much hate.”
Bennet and Woodfolk agreed on this Immigration is one of their main concernsalthough they had different opinions on why.
“This border thing is out of control” said Bennet, the Republican voter. “I think it’s a conspiracy or a plan by the government to get those people involved and change the whole dynamic to their advantage, so I’m pretty angry.”
Woodfolk, the Democrat, said she doesn’t mind immigrants “sharing” opportunities in the United States, but worries that it comes at the expense of “people who have been here their whole lives.”
Trump and Republicans criticize Biden for the influx of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in recent years, trying to capitalize on the problem even far from the border states. Biden stepped up the counteroffensive in recent weeks after Senate Republicans canceled an immigration compromise they had negotiated with the White House, withdrawing their support only after Trump said he opposed the deal. Biden took advantage of this circumstance to argue that Trump and the Republicans have no interest in solving the problem, but rather want to inflame voters in an election year.
Over the past year, Trump has devoted himself to campaigning and facing legal challenges dozens of criminal charges and civil suits for which I might have to do it pay more than $500 million in fines.
The first criminal trial was due to begin Monday in New York on charges that he falsified business records to conceal hush money payments. But a judge delayed the trial by 30 days following the recent disclosure of new evidence that Trump’s lawyers said they needed time to review.
Speaking outside the place where he voted with a campaign sticker taped to his lapel, Trump insisted that the cases against him They were politicians and defended himself from criticism for his attacks on democratic Jews the day before, in which he stated this these hate Israel and their religion. Democratic leaders on Tuesday criticized his remarks as promoting anti-Semitic motives such as divided loyalties.
Next to him was former first lady Melania Trump, who didn’t have a sticker. He has rarely appeared in public with Trump since he launched his third bid for the White House.
When asked if he would campaign with him, he responded: “Be careful”.
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Source: Clarin
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