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Juan Gabriel Valdes, former foreign minister and former Chilean ambassador to the United States, analyzed in Cooperative the climate that that country experiences a few days from presidential elections next Tuesday.
In the final stretch of the campaign for the November 3 elections, the polls show an advantage for the Democratic candidate Joe biden on the president and candidate for re-election, the Republican Donald trump.
In conversation with What Remains of the Day, Valdés stated that “As much as the polls give Biden a very clear advantage, it is clear that voter enthusiasm for Trump is higher.”
“The Trump voter, particularly the one who is located in fundamentalist religious groups, campaigns to defend the use of weapons or campaigns against Cuba or Venezuela, among Latinos, has a level of commitment to Trump far higher than what Biden has been able to achieve in the Democratic ranks. Let us remember that there is a very hard left sector in your party, “said the socialist militant.
Asked about his forecast on Tuesday’s results, Valdés stressed that Although “I tend to think that Biden is going to win,” he does not bet on a victory for the Democrat blindly: “I wouldn’t dare.”
“As much as the polls give a very clear advantage to Biden, it is evident that the enthusiasm of Trump’s voters is higher,” said the former ambassador.
IS TRUMP ABLE TO CHALLENGE THE CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM BY NOT ACCEPTING A DEFEAT?
The diplomat also commented on the similarities and differences between the Trump v Biden confrontation and the controversial election of the year 2000, when the republican George W. Bush He was elected president despite obtaining almost 450,000 fewer votes than his rival, the Democrat Al Gore, after a 36-day confrontation in the state of Florida that was resolved not by a full recount of the votes but by a Supreme Court divided by its partisan ranks.
“Today there is a very different climate than that which existed with Bush and Gore. At that time the two candidates and their commandos were absolutely prepared to submit to the verdict of the Supreme Court, and although they could have alleged, no one was willing to break the institutional system ignoring what the agencies in charge of the decision said“Valdés said.
“Here comes a second big question,” said the former foreign minister: “How long is it going to take Trump to accept a Biden win? What’s going to happen on election night and the night after?”
20 years ago, the choice between Bush and Gore was determined by the Supreme Court. Photo: CNN
In recent weeks, President Donald Trump has stepped up his campaign against voting by mail out of fear that this option will harm him and insists, without evidence, that it can lead to electoral fraud. Already in 2016, in one of the presidential debates against the former Democratic candidate Hillary clinton, Trump did not promise to accept the result if he lost.
Now, as head of the Oval Office, doubts are beginning to be raised about what would happen if Trump does not cooperate in a hypothetical transition of powers.
“That is a question that I never thought he was going to ask me about the United States,” acknowledged Valdés.
A POSSIBLE “BRUTAL” DESCEND
The former ambassador to the United States also pointed to the presence of “Armed groups that are holding conspiracies that can end up reacting in a very brutal way in the face of a difficult decision that takes days to be made.”
“I just learned that the University of Washington has just said that it is going to suspend its classes and activities if there is a postponement in the electoral results, it could bring violence (…) We are talking about a country that is preparing for something that it has not experienced since the nineteenth century and that is a type of confrontation in which the parties are unaware of the authority of the institutions destined to define an electoral result“Valdés said.
Walmart withdrew the weapons from stores in the US due to the possibility of riots. Photo: EFE
The American capital once again covered its facades with wooden planks in anticipation of an unprecedented election day due to the tension that surrounds it. First it was a couple of months ago due to racial protests and this time in prevention of mobilizations called for next Tuesday.
The areas adjacent to the White House, in the heart of Washington, appeared this Friday under construction between boards, scaffolding and workers at work, US media say.
In parallel, the signature Walmart, one of the largest department store chains in the world, has decided to withdraw firearms and ammunition from many of its stores given the increase in unrest in the country caused by the upcoming elections.
“That is very serious and what Trump has exclusively caused by insulting the vote by mail, by permanently declaring that if the result does not favor him, he is not sure whether to accept it.“Valdés stressed.
