Things are not looking good for the US Democrats ahead of the midterm elections. President Biden pulls one last ace up his sleeve with his ex-boss, because: Obama can inspire masses with his speeches.
Shortly before the important midterms, US President Joe Biden is relying on his former boss, ex-President Barack Obama, in the election campaign. The two Democrats appeared at an event in the hard-fought US state of Pennsylvania over the weekend.
The 61-year-old Obama recently took an active part in the election campaign. But it was the first joint midterms appearance in the metropolis of Philadelphia with the 79-year-old Biden, who was Vice President under Obama. And just a short time later, another ex-president banged the drum for his party in the state: Donald Trump.
Things are not looking good for the Democrats ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections. They are threatened with losing their narrow majority in the US Congress. Should that happen, Republicans are likely to largely block Biden’s policies for the next two years. While polls suggest the House of Representatives is likely to fall to the Republicans, the Senate is likely to be very close. Pennsylvania could be the decisive state. Democrat John Fetterman and Republican Mehmet Oz compete there for the important Senate seat.
Obama is known as an excellent speaker and he got the crowd cheering in Philadelphia too. In doing so, he stood in stark contrast to Biden, who often gets muddled and who has recently been repeatedly criticized because of his old age. The two are an unequal political couple, wrote the New York Times. Now they have reached a point in their relationship where Biden is dependent on Obama “to confirm his own presidency and to convince the country to accept his leadership.”
Trump also appears in the election campaign
Both used the appearance in Pennsylvania to warn of the dangers for democracy in the USA with a view to the extreme Republican candidates. “Democracy is literally on the ballot,” Biden said. “Truth and fact, logic and reason and basic decency are on the ballot,” Obama warned, adding, “The midterm elections are no joke.”
More than 400 kilometers from Philadelphia, Republican Trump promoted Fetterman’s opponent Oz. The 76-year-old spoke in front of an airplane near Pittsburgh, on which his name was written in huge letters. He repeated the lie about the stolen 2020 presidential election. Again, he indicated that he would soon declare his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election. At the same time he attacked his inner-party opponent Ron DeSantis.
The governor of Florida is also up for election on Tuesday – and has a good chance of becoming governor of the southern state again. It is said that he also wants to run for the Republicans in 2024 as a presidential candidate. He has not yet declared his candidacy. Trump usually avoids mentioning his opponent in speeches at all costs. Again, he remained tight-lipped, but called DeSantis “Ron DeSanctimonious”. “Sanctimonious” means hypocritical in German.
Source: Stern
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