Required by his recent legislative advances and by promising polls, the American president increases his tone against his opponents, for them very feverish and always under the influence of Donald Trump.
Le Monde with AFP
With an increase up just over two months from the mid-term elections, Joe Biden called on the Americans on Thursday, August 25, to vote en masse for the Democratic Party in the November legislative elections, denouncing in passing the “” semi-fascism “of the most radical republicans.
During a fundraising in Maryland, the 79 -year -old President has hardly criticized the most radical fringe of the conservative camp. “What we are witnessing today is either at birth or to the death knell for a Maga Far philosophy [the acronym Maga refers to the emblematic slogan of Donald Trump,” Make America Great Again “]. This is not only Trump, it’s a whole philosophy (…). It’s like semi-fascism, “he said during this event, in the suburbs of Washington.
Later, addressing a campaign gathering of the Democratic Party not far from there, he launched: “You must vote to literally save democracy again”. If opinion surveys are always to be taken with tweezers, the trend that has emerged for about a month in favor of the Democratic camp seems frank.
favorable surveys
According to the Fivethirtyeight site, which aggregates polls, voters wishing a democratic victory in the mid-term elections were even a little more on August 24 (44 %) than those hoping for a success of the Republicans (43.6 % ). We are far from the “red wave” (the color of the conservative party) still envisaged at the beginning of the summer, when the strong inflation seemed to reduce the chances of the president and his party.
The victory on Tuesday of a democrat in a highly disputed district of New York State was seen as an additional index of the trend reversal. And some commentators now wonder if Joe Biden – whose popularity rating also goes up – will not make electoral history lie. Traditionally, in fact, the president’s party loses these elections which renew all the seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate.
The most important factor in this new momentum owes nothing to Joe Biden, on the contrary: it is the end of constitutional right to abortion, decided at the end of June by the very conservative Supreme Court shaped by Donald Trump . While a majority of Americans are favorable to the right to abortion, democrats are decided to make this question a central stake of the ballot.
Joe Biden once again promised that in the event of a victory in November, the Democrats would register the right to abortion in a federal law, which would be imposed on the conservative states having already prohibited or strongly limited abortion.
febrile republicans
The party can also rely on advances in the presidential program, in particular the vote of gigantic expenses in favor of the fight against climate change and for technological innovation. “It is undeniable that legislative gains accumulate for President Biden and that it revives the Democratic Party,” said lobbyist Jonathan McCollum, who worked on a number of campaigns.
Without counting other strong announcements, whether it is the death of the leader of Al-Qaeda following an American strike or the partial erasure of the student debt. On the economy front, inflation shows signs of slowing down, while employment remains flourishing.
A recent very commented survey, revealed by the NBC channel, even indicates that the first concern of voters would now be “the dangers weighing on democracy”, in front of the cost of living – enough to feed the hopes of the Democrats, While supporters of the former president continue to claim that Joe Biden “stole” his election.
The Republicans, themselves, show signs of feverishness. Their leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, believes that the Conservative Party has only one in two chance of delighting the majority in the upper Chamber of the Congress. Donald Trump, who does not carry Mitch McConnell in his heart, split a particularly virulent statement on Wednesday, the deal of “pawn” in the service of Democrats.