The arrival of November was marked in red for all the politicians who intend to compete in the Democratic and Republican primaries in the United States to obtain the candidacy of their respective parties in the elections that will be held just one year later – on November 5, 2024 -. It is the maximum deadline to submit your applications and, since the announcements began, many have been getting off the wagon along the way. The last, former Vice President Mike Pence, who on October 28 announced that “now is not the time” to fight for the White House. A decision that, far from changing the candidates, benefits an increasingly favorite Donald Trump.
There have been several last-minute casualties in the Republican ranks – businessman Perry Johnson or politicians Francis Suárez and Will Hurd, although Pence’s has been the most notable – some surveys placed him up to third in voting intentions -.
But the first, indisputably and according to all the polls, is Trump, who has recently taken a coup of authority by imposing a congressman of his rank, Mike Johnson, at the head of the House of Representatives, after an internal crisis in the Republican Party in which up to four candidates have had to resign from leading this body.
In total, there are six official candidates to participate in the primaries, which will begin in February and conclude, at the latest, in June, as long as they do not finish earlier as politicians abandon the race depending on successes or failures in the elections. the internal elections.
Trump would have the support of 54 percent of voters, an important figure, especially considering that he would be up to 37 points ahead of his closest rival, Ron DeSantis, with 17 percent. Far behind, former governor and former UN ambassador Nikki Haley is now third in the race, who would not reach 5 percent. And residuals are Senator Tim Scott, former Governor Asa Hutchinson and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy.
The former president, who already won the primaries in 2016 and 2020, is resorting to the anti-immigration rhetoric that fueled his campaign seven years ago that took him to the White House, calling for an expansion of travel restrictions from Muslim countries and new evidence of ideology to immigrants, in addition to promoting new works on the border with Mexico that remained stagnant after leaving the Presidency. In fact, he has repeatedly blamed the Aztec country for the problems in the United States and promises new uses for military force and covert actions.
But, above all, he has emerged as the guarantor of democracy that, in his opinion, Joe Biden has ruined, as well as the world leader necessary to end the war in Ukraine and even the conflict in the East. Next.
Despite his judicial fronts, which he has taken advantage of to present as a “witch hunt” against him, more and more Republicans support him. And he is even seen by many Democrats as the lesser evil in the face of a Biden who is beginning to be on the ropes.
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His main rival will be Florida Governor DeSantis, who has sharpened his criticism of Trump and is standing out for far-right positions, much more radical than the populist ones promoted by Trump, and has also focused his speeches on immigration and the prohibition of arrivals of irregulars, but also in the approval of anti-LGBT laws and abortion prohibitions.
Nikki Haley, for her part, has tried to differentiate herself from her rivals with a message more oriented to foreign policy, warning of the “threats” posed by China and Russia and with a radicalized discourse on migration and against abortion, going so far as to brand his rivals of being “not very conservative.”
With such an extremist outlook, Trump even presents himself as the moderate option that Republicans should cling to.
2023-11-05 10:16:59
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