Liberals have grown up, thanks to Donald Trump. Biden’s goal here should be to embrace the center and hold onto his liberal base-but his liberal base here really has nowhere to go. DeSantis is coming across as a tribute band to Donald Trump, and a rather weak one at that. It might work in Florida, but it won’t hold sway with independent voters. He’s tried to out-Trump Donald Trump to win the GOP nomination with his increasingly shrill and extremist views and policies: case in point, his war against Mickey Mouse and Disney. Regarding DeSantis, he has already jumped the shark. All together, this spells doom for Trump’s bid for a second term as president. If Trump is indicted and convicted for his role in the January 6 insurrection, under the terms of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution, he would be barred from holding federal office. Unless our society has changed to the point where it no longer matters, we’re not in the habit of electing convicted felons or criminals to the highest office in the land. Trump faces federal, state, local, and even civil charges in multiple cases that paint him as a common criminal who considers himself above the law. We’ve never had a major candidate since Eugene Debs running for office under this cloud of illegality and perhaps even treason. On top of everything, it seems like the justice system will do Joe Biden’s job for him regarding Trump, painting him as an unfit candidate for office. Their base is literally dying and if you don’t replace them with younger voters, you’re setting yourself up for long-term irrelevance, politically speaking.īiden needs to focus on issues that matter to younger voters: student loan forgiveness, reproductive rights, affordable housing and healthcare, the Green New Deal, and gun control. And there’s a larger problem for the GOP-the party is not attractive to younger voters. That’s a major problem for the Republican party. They’ll look for a more middle-of-the-road candidate which, in this case, will be Joe Biden.Īdditionally, demographics show that people under 50 years of age-millennials and Gen Z-are far more policy-driven and they’re less inclined to agree with the extremist baby boom ideology that Trump is espousing.
The vast bulk of independent voters-especially women-are not going to be willing to go down that kind of road. It works for the GOP base, which is largely white, evangelical, conservative, and authoritarian, but it won’t work outside of the GOP primaries.
The vast majority of voters are independents and they don’t cotton well to that kind of extremism. He’s becoming more and more extreme, but the American electorate, for the most part, is in the middle. Trump’s making reckless charges, acting increasingly irrational at his rallies. He wants Donald Trump because Trump is the proverbial bull in the china shop. He doesn’t even have to mention Donald Trump. Biden has to stand on his own merits here. Trump, DeSantis, GOP opponents Thomas Whalen, associate professor of social sciences, College of General Studies
So, what are the issues that will define Biden’s reelection campaign? BU Today reached out to faculty experts across the University and asked them to share their insights. If voters let Biden ‘finish the job,’ inflation will continue to skyrocket, crime rates will rise, more fentanyl will cross our open borders, children will continue to be left behind, and American families will be worse off.” Ronna McDaniel, the chair of the Republican National Committee, wasted no time in responding to Biden’s news in a statement: “Biden is so out-of-touch that after creating crisis after crisis, he thinks he deserves another four years. “The question we are facing is whether in the years ahead we have more freedom or less freedom, more rights or fewer,” Biden says in the video. What Biden makes clear in his video announcement is that he plans to will run on his political accomplishments, his work to lower the temperature of the country after Trump’s presidency, and his determination to, in his words, “finish the job” that he started. Will it be a 2020 rematch of 2020 with former President Donald Trump (who would be 78 in 2024)? Will Florida Governor Ron DeSantis run? Will another GOP candidate rise? But on Tuesday, President Joe Biden announced in a video he would indeed seek reelection, and now the only question is who his opponent will be. Democratic voters are not excited by him, polls show, and many Democrat politicians say privately they wish there was an alternative candidate for their party to push in 2024. He would be 82 years old at the start of a second term, the oldest president in history.
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