“If Trump was not a candidate, I don’t know if I would run for re-election” – Corriere.it

From our correspondent
New York: If Donald Trump wasn’t running, I’m not sure I would be running. “But we can’t let him win,” President Joe Biden said at a meeting with his campaign and Democratic party funders in Boston in the evening. Words that surprised the president’s advisors, at a time when doubts loom over his age (81 years old) constantly emerges as a concern for voters. But a spokesman said Biden beat Trump once and could do so again.

Upon his return to the White House, and immediately after getting off the helicopter, the president responded firmly to reporters who asked him if he would withdraw if Trump withdrew from the race: “No, not now.” Sources close to Biden have told reporters in the past that his decision to run again in 2024 is tied to the belief that neither Vice President Kamala Harris nor another Democratic candidate can beat Trump.

Also in 2020, Biden said his decision to run for the White House was partly related to then-President Trump, including his words justifying the far-right nationalists’ rally in Charlottesville. Now Biden repeats at every election event, including the three he participated in Tuesday in Massachusetts, that his predecessor poses an absolute danger to American democracy, which is “most vulnerable in 2024” because the businessman and his allies are determined to do so. Destroying” institutions. At Tuesday night’s events, he urged the audience to think about what might happen if Trump returned to the White House, noting that he had vowed “revenge” to his supporters and said he wanted to eliminate “parasites” from the country. Among those who sounded the alarm in recent days was Lastly, Biden also mentioned the former Republican congresswoman Liz CheneyWho spoke of a nation of “sleepwalkers heading toward dictatorship.”

A few hours later, former President Trump (77 years old), in a meeting with voters in Iowa, which will be the first state to vote in the Republican Party primaries in January, responded to the accusations, saying: “I will only be a dictator one day.” “When I close the borders and repeal climate policies and start drilling, it’s the Democrats who are abusing their power, not me,” the businessman said. The former president, who is accused of trying to subvert the outcome of the vote in 2020, said that the “enthusiasm” around his candidacy is “greater than ever, greater than the 2016 and 2020 elections, in which we performed very well anyway” and accused Democrats of “financing” his rivals in the elections. introductory, Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley. In an interview with Fox NewsTrump then joked about Biden’s words: “It seems to me that it is a good topic for discussion…”, repeating his doubts about the president’s health: “He is in bad physical condition, and I can say that mentally.” From his perspective, it is just as bad, if not worse.”

Although some recent polls showed Trump ahead of Biden in hypothetical clashes in several swing states over whether they would be the two parties’ nominees, the president’s campaign is downplaying the importance of these results one year before the vote. Biden concluded his evening by describing Trump as a “defeated president”: “He did not attend my first inauguration, which I cannot say was disappointing, but I assume he will not attend the next ceremony either.” “In October, Biden and the Democratic Party said they had raised more than that 71 million dollars In the three months before his election, an indication that his financiers remained by his side. All week long, his schedule is packed with donor events, which will bring him to Los Angeles on Friday, among celebrities Steven Spielberg, Barbara Streisand And performance Lenny Kravitz.