[美대선 돋보기] Republicans influence ‘anti-Trump statement’



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Entry 2020.09.28 16:20

A growing number of Republicans oppose the reelection of US President Donald Trump. The main Republican party chose Trump’s “ outsiders’ ‘because of their dissatisfaction with the policy established four years ago, but it appears to be relying on voters’ desire for change as fatigue from a lack of leadership has mounted.

Many people say they will vote for former Vice President Joe Biden, who has been confirmed as a Democratic presidential candidate. However, most of them focus on preventing President Trump from being re-elected rather than because Biden is particularly good, so there are many reserved opinions on whether it will lead to a rally by Republican supporters. This is because President Trump still has overwhelming support from the Republican leadership, as well as from Republicans in general and Republican supporters.

Former Homeland Security Minister Tom Ridge sent an editorial to the local Philadelphia Inquirer press on the 27th (local time) to express his support for Biden. As governor of Pennsylvania, he emphasized in his editorials: “Now is the time to put the country ahead of the political party” and “now is the time to oust Donald Trump.”

Former Minister Ridge said he can no longer entrust the state administration to President Trump. “He has no empathy, sincerity, intelligence, or maturity.” Regarding President Trump’s recent refusal to take over the regime, he said: “Can you imagine any president we have ever seen speaking such dangerous and non-American words?” “It is online”.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks at an election rally in Wilmington, Delaware, on July 14, 2020. / Reuters Yonhap News

◇ Former and current Republican officials rebelled against “Trump withdrawal” … Democratic Party ‘absorption’ forces to leave

Colin Powell, who served as secretary of state for the George W. Bush administration under former Secretary Ridge, voiced his support for Biden in an interview with CNN in early June. This is because “the president is outside the constitution.” In an interview with CBS that same month, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who also served as Secretary of State in the Bush administration, told President Trump that “I want to tell you to think about the historical context before you say anything.” Former President Bush has never officially announced his support for Biden, but he did express his intentions by indirectly criticizing President Trump’s response to the racist protests.

Sen. Mitt Romney, a top Republican leader, broke with President Trump earlier. Senator Lisa Merkoski, who said: “It is not easy to support President Trump,” strongly opposes the Federal Justice nomination. Former Ohio Governor John Kishik, a Republican presidential nominee, sent a video clip to the Democratic National Convention to declare his support for Biden. Cindy McCain, wife of former Senator John McCain, who is influential in the Republican Party, also clarified her opposition to President Trump’s succession by posting a video about the friendship between the husband and candidate Biden on the same day.

Matt Borges, who clashed with Trump during the 2016 presidential election and was ousted from the chairman of the Ohio Republican Party, launched the Super PAC (Special Political Action Committee), dubbed the ‘right hand package’. The main participants include Anthony Skaramuchi, who toughened 11 days after being appointed Director of Public Affairs for the White House in 2017. The Ufa Pack aims to find supporters who are disappointed in President Trump’s performance and persuade them to vote. by Biden.

The Democratic Party has launched a project called ‘Republicans for Biden’ to absorb potential supporters leaving the Republican Party. To date, 24 former Republican lawmakers, including former Senator Jeff Flake, have supported the bill with a statement. In an interview with the Washington Post in April, former Congressman Flake said, “None of my fellow legislators think that (the Trump administration) is the future of the Republican Party.” I’m doing it, “he said.

◇ Even the backs I thought … retired generals “I want Trump to fall”

US President Donald Trump gives a briefing in the White House Rose Garden on April 14, 2020. / Reuters Yonhap News

Senior diplomats and security officials are also speaking out, beginning with public criticism of President Trump as “a mockery of the United States Constitution” by James Mathis, the Trump administration’s first defense secretary. John Kelly, a former White House secretary who was called the “ axis of adults ” in the Trump administration along with former Secretary Mattis, did not hide his resentment towards President Trump, admiring the statements of former Secretary Mattis.

Former White House National Security Adviser John Bolton assessed President Trump as “ unqualified ” and practically embarked on a campaign of defeat. “President Trump does not have a philosophical basis or a strategy,” Bolton said in an interview with the British Daily Telegraph. “He had very little knowledge of how the government works and was not interested in learning.”

On the 24th, 489 former national security officials issued an open letter supporting candidate Biden. They noted in their letter that “thanks to the contempt and failures of President Trump, our allies no longer trust us or respect us,” and “the enemy is no longer afraid of us.” Seventy others, including Kirsten Nielsen, former Homeland Security Secretary Miles Taylor, former CIA Director Michael Hayden, and former National Intelligence Agency (DNI) chief John Negroponte, also issued a statement last month and said they supported Biden.

Veterans, including former joint chiefs of staff Mike Mulan and Marty Dempsey, also added. Former Navy Captain William McRaven, who led the operation to eliminate Osama bin Laden, said: “It is time for a new leader in the United States this fall, be it Democratic, Republican, independent, etc.” He said. In a contribution to Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy (FP) magazine, Marine Corps Capt.John Allen, who served as commander of the US forces in Afghanistan, accused President Trump of forcibly dissolving protesters who they were holding a peaceful demonstration to visit the church behind the White House.

◇ Biden can’t ignore ‘Why Trump’ even before Trump … No recessive support layer is also variable

On September 18, 2020, posters promoting United States President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden are lined up in the courtyard of a polling place in Fairfax County, Virginia. / Reuters Yonhap News

This pattern is striking because Biden maintains a higher approval rating than President Trump with about 40 days before the presidential election. WP reported on the day that in a poll conducted in collaboration with ABC from 21-24, Democratic candidate Biden-Kamala Harris had an approval rating of 53%, ahead of Republican Trump-Mike Pence (43%) by 10 percentage points. . The survey was conducted with 889 registered voters nationwide, with an error of ± 3.5%. In a joint poll by The New York Times (NYT) and the University of Siena, Biden was 8 percentage points ahead of President Trump (41%) with an approval rating of 49%. The range of error for this poll, which was conducted on 950 voters nationwide from 22-24, is ± 3.5%.

However, it is difficult to say that ‘anti-Trump’ sentiment in the conservative camp has grown more than four years ago due to the statement of opposition by Republican officials to the re-election of President Trump. Most of them did not support President Trump in the Republican presidential nomination and the 2016 presidential elections.

It’s also a question of whether the hidden supporters, dubbed ‘The Trump Scam,’ will again play a crucial role in Trump’s victory. President Trump was inferior in the polls four years ago, but the results were different. This is why anti-Trump organizations, including Ufapak, are trying to pass Shay Trump, saying the polls don’t accurately reflect reality. In fact, Trump’s camp is focused on white workers, a key supporter, especially in the states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, the Rust Belt.

Another variable is that the enthusiastic support for candidate Biden is relatively weak. As a result of a poll of 12,750 adults conducted on the 14th by Pew Research, a social research agency in the United States, 56% of supporters of the Biden candidate responded that they “ support because I am not President Trump. ” Furthermore, Biden’s presence has not been well emphasized, with few public campaigns due to Corona 19. It has also sparked rumors several times due to frequent mistakes such as ‘Deng Xiaoping discussed the Paris Agreement on Climate Change’. Deng Xiaoping died in 1997 and the Paris Convention on Climate Change was signed in 2016.

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