Writer Edward Luce said, in the ” Financial Times ” newspaper , that the era, politics and thinking of Donald Trump, is still the strongest card in the hands of President Joseph Biden, in the event that the achievement declines.
Ideally, the writer says, the ruling party should rely on its achievements, not on intimidating voters from the return of that era, which is followed today by the campaign of Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe for governor of Virginia.
Loos notes that McAuliffe, whose fate will be seen next week as a referendum on President Joe Biden, had hoped to run under the umbrella of the popular reforms that the Biden administration had promised the public, but given that those reforms have not yet occurred – and are constantly curtailed – He is trying to turn the race into a referendum on Donald Trump.
In the past few weeks, the writer asserts, the word “Biden” has almost completely disappeared from his campaign.
The good news for McAuliffe and Democrats in general is that Trump is giving them all possible assistance tacitly, as he has shown every sign of his intention to run in 2024, and has convinced most of his fellow Republicans that he was cheated last November, and that he was the victor. real in it.
This is enough, according to the author, to raise convincing fears about the future of American democracy and may motivate Democrats to win, especially since Glenn Yongkin, McAuliffe’s Republican opponent, respected and believed Trump’s claims.
“There’s nothing quite as scary as Trump this Halloween,” Luce adds. He says that had Trump not been around, Biden’s political outlook would have been much darker than it is now.
Loos points out that Biden may fail to pass his reforms, or they may be watered down significantly, and here he says that he could also lead to higher rates of inflation, which would erase most of the wage gains that began to benefit American workers recently.
He adds that it may even fail to beat COVID-19 due to its inability to influence a remote region of anti-vaccination “Trumpists”.
But if Trump is on the ballot in 2024, it is likely, according to the author, that things will remain in Biden’s favour.
“If Biden had been facing a less controversial Republican than Trump, it would have been very different,” he says.
The writer ends his article by saying that “it would be much better if Biden were in a position to achieve something close to the historic changes he promised, but until then, Trump will remain his most powerful weapon.”