A referendum on Trump – VG

It depends a lot on Biden, 77 years old. He is three years older than Trump. But the age difference between the two seems greater than that. Biden is in the process of conducting the longest and most brutal job interview in the world, which will prepare him for the toughest job in the world.

If you stumble on the running side, you can literally go wrong. The Trump campaign is eagerly looking for the slightest sign that Biden appears weak or weakened. They try to put a spotlight on every talk or oversight that creates the impression that Biden is too old. That you are not physically or mentally fit for work.

Biden – a decent man

Americans like vitality and strength. Here Biden falls short. Trump’s constant references to “Sleepy Joe”, “Sleepy Joe”, may affect more than we like to think.

The contrast to Trump is great in most areas. The bite is everything Trump is not. Joe Biden is a decent man, with confidence-inspiring looks and language. He is concerned with reuniting Americans. He has solid political experience. And he appears to be a man of cooperation, a politician who has often managed to find solutions across partisan lines.

When Biden held his televised public meeting in Philadelphia on Thursday night, I met several of his constituents. Earlier this week, I met Trump voters at a rally in Florida. It’s a strange situation: Biden supporters and Trump supporters alike have a passion for Trump. With the opposite sign.

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Biden’s most important letter in this election campaign is that he is not Donald Trump. Above all, the Democrats want to get rid of the current president. The party has chosen the man they believe can best defeat Trump, not necessarily the man who creates the most enthusiasm.

They did something similar in 2004, when they nominated John Kerry as the Democratic presidential candidate. Not because Kerry was the one who could win the most hearts. But because the Democrats considered him “the most eligible”, as the one who could beat the then president, Republican George W. Bush.

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It didn’t go well. Four years later, however, things were much better. Then a young and energetic Barack Obama made his way to the nomination, winning the party apparatus established by the Democrats. Obama became president, in a wave of enthusiasm.

Holds for the nose

The wave that Biden can ride is precisely the strong opposition of many voters to Trump. It may work out this time. Opinion polls so far suggest that. Trump is much more controversial than Bush in 2004, when John Kerry lost the election.

But Biden fights both passionate Trump supporters and Republicans who come out and vote for Trump because they like his policies. After all, Trump has kept many of the 2016 election promises. He has cut taxes and regulations, and appointed new, very conservative Supreme Court justices. Last in line, Amy Coney Barrett, will likely be approved next week. He is only 48 years old and can shape American society for decades.

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Trump talks less about what he will do in the next four years. It frustrates many on your side. But what worries him most is getting the love of those who already love him. That is what gives you energy and strength.

Trump and his people portray Biden as a puppet figure of the radical left in the Democratic Party. But this, of course, does not reflect reality. Biden has always been a moderate Democrat. He sided with the left in the battle for the nomination to win and become the party’s presidential candidate. You are now back in the center.

For example, you are sticking with Obamacare, rather than a new health plan that the left of the Democratic Party wants. And unlike in 2016, the left now fully supports Biden. In the last election, many of them criticized Hillary Clinton, disappointed that Bernie Sanders did not win the nomination. Now they see that four new years with Trump is much worse than the alternative.

Madam president?

Many of those I met in Philadelphia thought that Biden was running for president because he felt compelled to do so. Because the party believes that he is the only one who can beat Trump. And they point to Kamala Harris, Biden’s vice presidential candidate. “Maybe the next Madam President,” a young woman told me. She encourages Biden, but mostly Harris.

Trump and his people are trying to paint Kamala Harris as more radical. She is, in principle, but she’s completely behind Biden’s politics. Of course. Without her on the ballot, it would have been more difficult for many to vote for Biden. Both because Harris represents breadth and because many voters see her fit to take over if something happens to Biden.

There is still little more than two weeks until the elections. It is a long time in an American election campaign. Lots of things can happen.

Now Biden just has to stand upright and keep his tongue straight in his mouth. Otherwise, a Trump victory could be very close.