Joe Biden doesn’t want to talk about content right now

Joe Biden doesn’t want to talk about content, because content doesn’t matter right now

The Democratic presidential candidate is doing his best to postpone key debates on the agenda until after Election Day on November 3.

Renzo Ruf from Washington / ch media

Joe Biden’s party is not known for its united demeanor. Long-dead comedian Will Rogers has a corresponding bon mot: ‘I am not a member of an organized political party. I’m a Democrat. “- could also come from a current member.

But Biden, who announced in the first televised debate with Donald Trump this week, “I am the Democratic Party,” is doing everything he can to postpone key programmatic debates until after Election Day on November 3.

The presidential candidate does not want to talk about the future of the Supreme Court or how vigorously the largest economy must act against climate change. His party ranks, which are far from digesting the impact of Trump’s 2016 election victory, support this strategy, although President Trump claimed in the televised debate that Biden’s cautious approach was telling campaign activists. marginal left of his party. Hit the head.

White steel workers and coal miners

Even New York MP Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who never avoids an internal debate whether she can use it to sharpen her profile, notes that she has no interest in wing fights: In climate politics, she works with Biden to find potential ones. Overcoming differences, she said after the television debate.

Because he believes his party backs him, Biden departed this week during his first real election tour since the outbreak of the crown pandemic to what was once the heart of the Democratic Party: to former working-class cities in the greater Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) area, where unionists were once loyal to the party. – Idols like Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy voted.

Biden will also have noticed that white steel workers or coal miners, whose work ethic he sometimes mythically exaggerates in his speeches, cannot do much with the modern Democratic Party. Four years ago, for example, Trump won an overwhelming majority of votes outside of former working-class cities like Latrobe or Johnstown.

Yet Biden is counting on his programmatic message to win approval even in a structurally conservative environment, if only because he is more familiar with this environment, a contemporary democratic civil servant.

Biden wants to unite, not divide

Biden’s outstretched hand is also a signal to would-be exchange voters in other parts of the country: The Democrat takes his message that he wants to be the president of all Americans seriously. Unlike Trump, who divided the country into democratic “red”, Republican and “blue” states, Biden wants to appeal to all sectors of the population.

It’s probably a wasted effort, as Trump supporters are willing to go through thick and thin for him. Most American voters seem to agree with Democrats that the division of the country has taken on dramatic features.

This was one of the reasons why a crowd spontaneously gathered at the Latrobe train station on Wednesday when it emerged that Biden was planning to stop the election campaign in the provincial city. Sue Rhodes was among the assembled activists. She said: “It is important that we mark presence.”

Democrats should not leave public space to supporters of President Donald Trump, who, especially in conservative areas, mark their ties to the president with flags and posters, says the old woman.

And while supporters of Bernie Sanders, a left-wing frontman for the Biden party, also rallied at this impromptu election event, ideological differences played no role. Regardless of whether he was speaking to a young voter or a retired Navy soldier, the assembled Democrats said in unison that they wanted to get rid of Trump. This is the end goal. Everything else doesn’t play a big role at this point. (aargauerzeitung.ch)