US elections: the blame game begins after Trump’s defeat to Biden in the presidential race

Donald Trump has yet to admit defeat, but the blame game has already begun.

The news networks called a US presidential election for Joe Biden on Saturday (US time) while Trump played golf.

He returned to the White House amid wild scenes of celebration and was greeted with boos and middle fingers.

Trump has released a statement saying he does not intend to budge and tweeted that he believes he won.

In the final weeks of the campaign, Trump seemed to ponder the possibility of losing and did not like the idea at all.

“Running against the worst candidate in the history of presidential politics puts pressure on me,” Trump said during an Oct. 16 rally in Georgia.

“Can you imagine if I lose? All my life, what am I going to do? I’m going to say, ‘I lost to the worst candidate in the history of politics.’ I’m not going to feel so good. Maybe I will have to leave the country? “

At a later rally he said: “If I lose, I will have lost to the worst candidate, the worst candidate in the history of presidential politics. If I lose, what do I do? I prefer to compete against someone who is extraordinarily talented.” , at least so I can go and lead my life. “

Now that the worst appears to be happening, the Washington Post has provided insight into what went wrong with the Trump campaign.

Many blame Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, who assembled his own virus response team that undermined the official working group on coronavirus, overseen by Vice President Mike Pence.

“The only constant in this campaign, from day one to day, was Kushner,” a Trump ally close to the campaign told the Post. “So if the president wins, Kushner deserves credit, but if he loses, Kushner deserves the blame.”

Kushner, who is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka, reportedly made it clear that he and the president had final approval on all major campaign decisions, but he was often distracted with his White House duties, including trying. to secure a peace agreement in the Middle East.

But the coronavirus pandemic appears to have been the problem that derailed the president’s career.

Earlier this year, many expected Trump to win a second term, and internal polls reportedly showed he was ahead of Biden in Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Arizona in February.

Eight months later, it appears that Biden has claimed both Pennsylvania and the lead in the strong Republican states of Arizona and Georgia.

“In February, he had this re-election in his pocket. If it weren’t for Covid, he could have sat on his laurels and won,” Tom Bossert, the president’s former national security adviser, told the Post. “He has always been better at controlling the narrative than the levers of the government.”

Trump’s poll numbers plummeted as the coronavirus pandemic continued.

Infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci reportedly urged Trump and Pence to own the coronavirus problem rather than blame each other, because it was the only way to fix it.

But Trump continued to downplay the threat and ignored Fauci’s warnings, choosing to hold big events across the country.

He continued his attacking strategy against Joe Biden, echoing his “Crooked Hillary” approach, by targeting Biden’s son Hunter, as well as the divisive, racist and misogynistic comments for which he had become known.

He even revealed to a crowd in Tampa that others were urging him to stop his attack on Hunter Biden because no one cared and instead focused on his success in the economy.

“I disagree,” he said, as the crowd cheered. “You know, maybe that’s why I’m here and they aren’t.”

Trump also appears to have ignored his advisers’ debate prep, constantly interrupting Biden and the moderator during a combative first debate, during which he also failed to denounce white supremacy.

“The average American will pick an old fool who’s past his prime over a brusque bully every day of the week and twice on Sunday,” a Trump ally close to the campaign told the Post.

While his final appearance in the debate was better, nearly 50 million Americans had already voted by that time.

Some believe Trump suffered from keeping the focus on himself and that few senior staff members were willing to give the US president advice he did not want to hear.

“A successful re-election campaign really needs to focus on disqualifying his opponent, but the president spent most of this year keeping the spotlight on himself, which is contrary to a winning strategy,” said the Fund president. Senate Leadership Officer, Steven Law.