In a recent poll conducted for the Washington Post and ABC News, 58 percent of the Democrats polled say they want a presidential candidate other than Biden next year. They say this despite the fact that 78 percent of Democrats in the same survey think the president is doing a good job. A fairly large majority of the Democrats therefore want to replace Joe Biden at the election in 2024. Nevertheless, it is expected that the President of the United States will soon announce officially that he wants re-election. Tonight he will begin that process, when he will boast about what he has achieved in the past year in his annual State of the Union address. Biden’s bragging list Biden has achieved more than many presidents after two years: Unemployment is the lowest in the US in 50 years. Roads, bridges and other dilapidated infrastructure have received their biggest federal aid package in more than a decade. The Biden administration has made historic investments in green energy. The US woke up Europe and announced the invasion of Ukraine before it took place. Since then, they have led and strengthened the Western defense alliance against Russia. All this, and much more, Joe Biden is going to boast about tonight. In addition, he must present the plan for how he will effectively govern the country in the next year with a Republican majority in Congress. One of the first challenges is to ensure that Congress raises the debt ceiling so that the United States can continue to pay its bills. ZELENSKYJ: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj appealed directly to congressional politicians in a speech just before Christmas. Also tonight, the speech in this hall will be about Ukraine. Photo: CHIP SOMODEVILLA / AFP He will not least portray himself as a clear alternative to Donald Trump. But it is not at all certain that Trump will be a presidential candidate again. Release to younger forces? A fairly large majority of Democrats therefore do not want Joe Biden to embark on an exhausting election campaign at the age of 82, and sit in the White House until he is 86. Nevertheless, many people here in Washington are talking about there being no other Democratic candidates than Biden until next year. If an incumbent president decides to run for re-election, it is inappropriate for others to challenge him. Biden clearly won over Trump in 2020, and some Democrats are anxious about a rematch with a more inexperienced candidate. REPRISE?: A large majority of Americans do not want another election campaign between Donald Trump and Joe Biden until next year. Photo: ALON SKUY / AFP Others, however, think that Michigan’s governor Gretchen Whitmer (51), who won a landslide re-election last fall, or Biden’s own transport minister Pete Buttigieg (41), could take the Democratic Party into the future as early as 2024. The fear of Kamala Harris Biden has said that he has great faith in fate. He also says that when he talks about the election in 2024. If fate, or health, does not want him to go out in an election campaign at 82 years old, then he may not do it. And should his health fail along the way, he has a vice-president standing by. Or does she? NOT POPULAR: Vice President Kamala Harris has not been able to find her role as vice president and is not popular. Many political experts believe she will not be able to win a presidential election if she were to run. Photo: ELIZABETH FRANTZ / Reuters Many in the party are worried about Kamala Harris. She has not succeeded in her role. Opinion polls show that she is more unpopular than Biden, and some believe she does not have what it takes to win a presidential election. But if you choose the oldest president in American history, then many voters will look quite closely at the vice-presidential candidate. Is it possible that he replaces her? Have won the war There will of course be a lot about war and peace in Congress tonight. When Biden delivered his annual address to a joint Congress last year, it was six days since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. – Six days ago, Russia’s Vladimir Putin tried to shake the very foundation of the free world … but he miscalculated badly. He thought he could roll into Ukraine and the world would be intimidated, Biden said, before bragging about the brave Ukrainian people. Almost a year of horrific acts of war and countless arms deliveries later, Nato is stronger than in many decades and Sweden and Finland are knocking on the door. PRAISE: Biden has previously spoken a lot about how much he admires the courage of Ukraine’s president. Here the two are together in the White House last December. Photo: Andrew Harnik / AP The handling of the war in Ukraine will perhaps be Biden’s most important legacy as president. But the war is far from won. Tonight, the president must also appeal to his opponents, the Republicans, to ensure that the billions for more weapons were still allocated. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is also present in Washington when Biden speaks. Not least to talk to the new majority on Capitol Hill about NATO and arms support. Yelled “you’re lying!” during the speech The State of the Kingdom speech is a live piece of political theater every year. And perhaps more than ever this year. All the politicians in the House of Representatives and the Senate gather in the congress hall, in addition to Supreme Court judges, members of the government and invited guests. Republican Kevin McCarthy will sit just behind Joe Biden with his club. After all, he was elected leader of the House of Representatives after 14 rounds of voting in January, in the last performance voters remember from this chamber. BEHIND BIDEN: Kevin McCarthy is the Republican leader in Congress, and will sit just behind Biden during the State of the Union address this year. Photo: J. Scott Applewhite / AP How will he behave during the speech? And what will he do if the more rebellious voices in his caucus start shouting inappropriate things at Biden? It has happened before. When Barack Obama gave his first State of the Union address, a Republican representative yelled “you’re lying!” when he talked about immigration. When Biden finishes speaking tonight, it will be Donald Trump’s former press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders who will deliver the Republicans’ televised counterargument. She has been governor of Arkansas since last time and may be one of those we hear more about in the election campaign next year. In any case, the stage is set for an evening in red, white and blue in the Congress. And a little yellow and light blue.
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