Headline : ’Anything is possible, but it wont be easy for the Democrats’

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Following weeks of debate, Joe Biden has decided not to run for re-election to the US presidency. A decision that deserves respect or rather a late realisation by the President?

The decision would have deserved respect if he had made it a year ago - or even better, two years ago. Then the Democrats would still have had the opportunity to agree on a different candidate with the involvement of their own voters in a proper primary. Instead, he organised primaries with the help of the Democratic National Committee, in which there was basically no open competition. In some cases, the delegates were simply allocated to Biden, for example in Florida, without there having been an actual primary. There were no TV debates. Opposing candidates like Dean Philipps were hardly seen on television. They tried to somehow drag Biden across the finish line. Also by structuring the primary election calendar in such a way that the states in which he was doing well were the first to vote. To resign now, after the whole world could see that he is no longer up to the job, is not really worthy of respect, but rather raises the question of why this did not happen much earlier. Especially when democracy and victory against Donald Trump are so important to Biden, according to his own statements.

Joe Biden has proposed his Vice President Kamala Harris as his successor. How suitable is she for the most powerful office in the world and what are her chances of beating Donald Trump in November?

I think she is completely unsuitable. The Democrats have relied on rich donors and the metropolitan, professional managerial class for years, especially during Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign. As a result, Trump's populism, some of it cheap but some of it entirely justified, has drawn the working class much closer to him. Joe Biden won in 2020 partly because he was able to win back some of these voters. As president, he has also convincingly shown that he really cares about the concerns of the little people. He has also supported and strengthened trade unions during his time in office. This delicate rapprochement with the working class could now be lost if he is replaced by someone like Kamala Harris, who likes to make flowery speeches and place her identity as a black woman at the centre of her appearance. This is habitually exactly the wrong approach for an election campaign in which Donald Trump has chosen J.D. Vance, who comes from a working-class family in Appalachia and is able to speak the language of the workers, as his vice-presidential candidate.

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