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Text: Thomas
"This is a showdown between two flawed and unpopular presidential candidates."
The New York Times issued a helpless exclamation on March 12, 2024.
On this day, the current President of the United States, Joe Biden, won the Democratic primary with 1,968 votes and became the Democratic candidate in the presidential election in August this year.
At the same time, former US President Donald Trump received 1,215 Republican representative votes, securing the Republican presidential race ahead of schedule.
This means that Trump will make a comeback and engage Biden in a second "White House man-in-person" contest.
The re-competition between the two would have made history, but most of the American people expressed disappointment, with 70% of respondents not supporting Biden's re-election and 56% not wanting Trump to run.
Apart from these two octogenarians, there are no other good presidential candidates, and American voters can't choose who is better, only which one is not bad enough.
Why are the Americans so disappointed in these two men, and what impact will their showdown have on the United States and the world?
(Trump & Biden)
Today we are going to talk about the US election!
A war of words broke out
After winning the Democratic presidential nomination, Biden couldn't wait to declare it a "moment of choice" and slammed Trump as a huge threat to the United States.
He called on people to "fight for freedom," and Trump's campaign was full of hatred and revenge for the United States, which has put the United States at risk unprecedented since the civil war.
Biden's words were heartfelt, and Trump was not to be outdone, and immediately hit back, calling his re-qualification for the Republican presidential race a "great victory day".
(Biden)
Then the conversation turned, and Trump said that he had no time to celebrate, because Biden was the worst president in American history, and he had to hurry back to work to defeat him.
Although the two have not yet been officially nominated, they are already tense and full of gunpowder.
Four years ago, Trump lost the election to Biden, becoming the first U.S. president in nearly three decades without re-election.
But Trump did not regard the defeat as a failure, but constantly attacked Biden in public opinion, trying to make Biden repeat his mistakes and become second.
Biden naturally refuses to compromise, and the two often argue with each other and fight in front of the public.
(Trump)
In 2022, the Biden administration found many state secret documents at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, many of which were not in Trump's capacity at the time.
For this, Biden issued him a number of charges in criminal cases at once.
As of today, Trump is mired in 91 criminal charges, including two civil cases that could cost him hundreds of millions of dollars.
In the face of these allegations, Trump certainly denied them all.
He in turn accused Biden and the Democrats of being afraid of him, thus carrying out a long-term and ongoing political false accusation against him.
Although Trump seems to be overpowering Biden in the limelight now, as long as these charges are implemented, he will lose all his efforts.
(The dispute between "donkey" and "elephant")
However, it is interesting that after Trump's secret documents were exposed, Biden's residence and office also appeared in important documents that the government should not have leaked, and they were accused of mishandling.
Republicans took the opportunity to question Hull, the prosecutor investigating the matter, for five hours at the hearing, and convicted Biden for the "truth".
But Hull has adamantly said he will not sue Biden, he is just an elderly man with a backward memory.
As a result, this exonerating sentence for Biden became a lever, and the Republican Party continued to attack Biden's age, saying that he was senile, amnesia, and no longer suitable for the presidency.
Democrats were also angry, pointing out on the spot that the Republican Party deliberately smeared Biden's reputation in order to help Trump take office.
(Fragmentation of the U.S. polity)
In the past few years, it has been common for the two parties in the United States to criticize each other and convict each other.
Just a few days before the presidential nominations of the two parties were confirmed, Biden and Trump were not idle, spraying each other from a distance of 300 miles.
Biden specifically named Trump and asked him to have a bit of backbone with Republicans and agree to his border security plan.
Once the bill is agreed, then Biden's approval ratings will be boosted, which Trump does not want to see.
He instigated Republicans to veto the bill, not to mention, but also pointed the finger at Biden on the immigration issue, demanding that Biden be responsible for the innocent people who were harmed by immigration crimes.
(Trump & Biden)
Trump also stressed that he is serious about immigration and that Biden is only trying to curry favor with voters.
The political contradictions between the two are very likely to completely split the US polity.
That's not what the American people want to see.
"Incompetent" Biden
An unnamed voter said that in his view, neither the current nor the former president is capable of resolving the situation and taking responsibility.
It is not surprising that voters think so, and the two have done many "ridiculous things" in addition to bickering during their tenure.
As mentioned earlier, the issue of border security and illegal immigration in the United States is the focus of the struggle between the two and the key to the 2024 presidential election.
(Biden & Supporters)
As early as 2020, when the two first met, Biden also used attacking Trump's immigration policy as an entry point.
Trump is a staunch opponent of illegal immigration and wants to expel "trespassers" who pose a security risk to the U.S. border.
But Biden sees this as a cold-blooded, undemocratic way of dealing with it, and promises that he will strike a balance between the American border and illegal immigration from a sympathetic and human perspective when he takes office.
To put it bluntly, it is to acquiesce in the entry of illegal immigrants in the spirit of humanitarianism.
The result is that 2023 has become the worst year for border problems in U.S. history, with more than 2.4 million illegal immigrants deported or apprehended at the Southwest border, accounting for three-quarters of the total.
(U.S.-Mexico Border Wall)
Trump's Republican Party immediately blamed the Biden administration for its incompetence, which led to frequent chaos on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Not long ago, Riley, a 22-year-old college student in the United States, was killed by an illegal Venezuelan immigrant while running at night.
Trump used the issue to convict Riley of his misfortune as an illegal immigrant crime, and if he wins this year's election, it will be the largest deportation operation in American history.
In this poll, the most important reason for dissatisfaction with Biden's re-election is the illegal immigration policy.
In addition to the dissatisfaction of the public and the Republican Party with Biden's actions, even Democrats in major cities such as New York and Los Angeles are also disgusted with this immigration policy.
(U.S. Border Immigration)
Overwhelmed by the border areas, large numbers of migrants have been transported to these cities, causing the collapse of urban services and the mayor having to plead with the president for a response.
It is clear that Biden has put himself in a predicament of "internal and external troubles" because of the immigration issue.
In addition, Biden's energy policy has also caused public discontent.
The "Russia-Ukraine war" has caused oil and gas prices to rise, and Biden has chosen to suspend the agreement to lease energy in the public domain at this time.
As a result, the energy crisis affects the normal life of the people.
At the beginning of 2021, in order to stimulate the national economy, the Democratic Party formulated a $1.9 trillion plan to put it into the market.
(Biden)
As a result, American economists predicted that the largest inflation in recent decades is occurring in the United States.
At the same time, Biden is also on issues such as transgender dysphoria and abortion, and his position is not firm, which seriously undermines the stability of the American people's lives.
Of course, there is Biden's insistence on military assistance to Ukraine, which is opposed by "pacifists".
To sum up, Biden is now unstable, and losing to Trump in this year's election may become a sure thing.
Don't look at Trump now has the upper hand, but there are still many Americans who hate him.
"Stupid" Trump
Compared with Biden's "Alzheimer's", Trump's "commotion operation" during his tenure is also more than that.
Former U.S. President George W. Bush's royal speech writer Mark Thiessen, after Trump lost the election in 2020, wrote an article listing the "ten major sins" he committed that year.
(Trump)
The famous American security company "Blackwater Contractor" once sent mercenaries to massacre a large number of Iraqi civilians, including women and children.
Unexpectedly, Trump, who was later nominated for the "Nobel Peace Prize", blatantly ignored international law and humanitarianism and pardoned "Blackwater".
This is one of its great sins.
With his veto power, Trump vetoed the National Defense Authorization Act, preventing an increase in U.S. military spending and putting Republicans who support the bill in a dilemma.
This is the second sin.
(Trump)
The third sin is the issuance of orders to withdraw most of the U.S. troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, leaving only 2,500 troops in each country, making the U.S. miss out on its strategic significance to the Middle East.
However, from our point of view, Trump is not guilty of these two things, but deserves the "Nobel Peace Prize".
The five charges from the fourth to the eighth are all for Trump's failure to strengthen the control of the new crown epidemic during his tenure and the failure to take responsibility in the anti-epidemic work.
At the height of the global pandemic, Trump insisted on claiming that the pandemic was not that serious at all, saying that it was hyped up by capitalists, making many Americans believe that the new coronavirus did not exist at all.
At that time, Congress proposed a pandemic relief plan, and Trump was reluctant to sign the legislation.
(Against Americans who have been controlled during the pandemic)
Millions of Americans are not only skeptical, are they going to fend for themselves over Christmas?
On the contrary, it has not imposed a stop on European travelers, resulting in too much population movement and an accelerated rate of transmission of the new coronavirus.
Among them, Italian tourists arrived in New York because they were not tested for the virus, and the new crown swept through New York City, and finally spread to the whole United States.
At the epidemic briefing, Trump also had a verbal altercation with American reporters who questioned him about his inaction in fighting the epidemic, which disappointed the American people so much that they had to unite to fight the virus.
Trump's negative treatment of the anti-epidemic work has left a large number of Americans without effective treatment after being infected, and the uninfected people have not been able to get vaccinated against it, and finally millions of Americans have died in hospital beds due to the new crown.
However, this was only a mistake Trump made in 2020, which is nothing compared to his four-year term.
As a result, Trump also made history by becoming the only president in U.S. history to be impeached twice during his term in office.
These were enough to get Trump off the presidency.
(Trump)
Trump's ninth major sin comes right after losing the presidential election, refusing to take his share of responsibility and failing those who support him.
The tenth charge is even more shocking, when Trump actually imposed martial law on the knowledge that he might not be re-elected, and mobilized the military to threaten some wavering states to cancel the voting results and run new elections.
This is undoubtedly a shameful act.
In addition to the United States, many foreign countries do not want Trump to return to the presidency of the United States.
Prior to this, Trung had repeatedly complained in public that other NATO countries did not come up with enough defense spending, and also threatened to withdraw the United States from NATO and no longer clean up the "mess" for its allies.
(Trump)
An allied president once asked him if the United States would protect them if they were invaded by Russia without the money they deserved.
Mr. Trump replied categorically that he would encourage Russia to attack these non-practical NATO countries.
At the same time, Trump also said that after he becomes president again, he will establish good relations with Russia, peacefully resolve the "Russia-Ukraine conflict", and make the EU assume more economic and security obligations.
That's why both NATO and the European Union are worried about Trump's comeback.
【Afterword】
It remains to be seen who will kill Trump and Biden in the end.
Because Trump wants to strengthen border security and resolve the "Russia-Ukraine conflict", he has won more public opinion and temporarily gained an advantage in public opinion.
However, Biden's available political funds are much higher than Trump's, and he may not be unable to recover his disadvantages in the later operation.
No matter who is in charge, it will be a headache for the American people, and the American political arena will fall into unprecedented division and struggle.
It is the people themselves who suffer.
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Nanning Evening News, Biden, Trump's "second showdown" opens, the American people are disappointed and helpless, "no choice"
Global Times Biden Trump locks in the presidential nominations of the two parties in the United States, and starts the "frightening White House duel" ahead of schedule
The Beijing News was impeached twice during his tenure, and Trump's record is no more
The 10 worst mistakes Trump made in 2020
Separated by 300 miles, Biden and Trump choked each other
Reference news: US media: Biden's three wrong lines