BREAKING NEWS: US president Joe Biden has announced that he is withdrawing from the upcoming presidential election in November.
He has nominated his vice-president Kamala Harris to be the Democrats candidate for the presidency, although others are gathering in the wings to make a possible challenge.
To go or not to go?
Biden needed to ‘fall on his sword’, after a series of mishaps in recent time
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Falls, stumbles, the dreadful, now infamous, debate a couple of weeks ago, make his age, 82, a serious handicap to his chances against Donald Trump, himself 77.
Mistakes, calling the Ukraine president Zelensky Putin being just one example.
Biden falls again [Photo courtesy of The Telegraph]
Trump’s popularity ratings have soared since the failed assassination attempt and then Biden contracted Covid.
The guy had to go!
Senators, congressmen and former president Barack Obama, were lining up calling for Biden to step down.
Curiously Bill and Hilary Clinton continue to support Biden!
Trump Missed! [Photo courtesy of Reuters]
Kamala Harris ... or?
Kamala Harris [Wikipedia] Gavin Newsom [New York Times]
Michelle Obama [BBC]
So, will Ms Harris be the challenger to Trump? She has not been popular to date, but then, which VPs ever have been? Harris is from a privileged, well-to-do background, so has little appeal amongst Americans living in the rust belt. As a woman, and a woman of colour at that, she is unlikely to enjoy the support of misogynists nor racists.
Would Senator Gavin Newsom from California be a better bet? He is white, male and young.
Would Michelle Obama be a good choice, if she could be persuaded? Despite being black and a woman, she is very popular.
I think Barack needs to remind her how pleasant it was living in The White House for eight years.
And wouldn’t Barack Obama make a great vice-president? The first ever man to hold that office and black to boot!
The US presidential election, which dominates the news agenda in any case, just got VERY interesting.
© Pablo de Ronda
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