Three presidents and one goal; Trump’s defeat

The election campaign of Joe Biden, the 46th president of the United States, to win his second term in this year’s elections, will be completed today (Thursday) with the presence of the 42nd and 44th presidents of the country, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, to collect funds in New York state. .

In a rare occurrence in which four former and current presidents are in a region other than Washington on the same day, Donald Trump is also in Long Island, New York, to attend a memorial service for a recently deceased police officer. This is despite the fact that, of all the former presidents alive, Jimmy Carter is ill and George Bush, contrary to his friendly relations with Obama and Clinton, has shown no interest in supporting Trump.

Although Clinton and Obama have the broad support of American blacks and Obama is going to make an autumn trip to several universities to bring young people to the polls, it must be said that both faces, from the perspective of the young and progressive generation of this old and conservative country they seem; Therefore, it is unlikely that this coalition, despite its low record, will be able to have the impact that Clinton’s support for Obama had in 2012.

Leon Panetta, Clinton’s former chief of staff and secretary of defense and CIA director during Obama, believes that Obama can play a role in health care in Biden’s cabinet and advised his campaign to win in this direction on the votes of Latinos, young people and others. minorities should be concentrated.

However, the existence of personality cults of people who once reached the highest political position of their country should not be overlooked, so that despite the coalition today, the possibility of confrontation between them in the future is very serious. Hillary Clinton’s disappointment due to the defeat in both of her election attempts, once against Obama and again against Trump, can make the situation more complicated.

Biden, who is older than both of his predecessors, had started the presidential race before both of them (first time in 1988). But in all the years of his presence in the Senate and vice president during the Obama era, the figures of the Democratic Party have shown less desire to support and even tolerate him.

His deep loyalty to Obama and the influential role he played in foreign policy during his tenure improved his standing in the party, but his pro-gay lead over Obama once again fueled the rift. The death of Biden’s son and the awarding of the freedom medal to him by Obama may have been a good ending for a not very effective political cooperation.

Biden, as the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1993, played a significant role in the appointment of Bill Clinton as the Supreme Court judge. But his extreme warmongering and the idea of ​​military intervention during the Yugoslav war in the 1990s were a challenge to Clinton’s anti-war stance. He is also one of Clinton’s important supporters in her moral scandal case.

Source: IRNA