2024-01-18 20:52:17
Biden is fighting to win North Carolina votes and Trump is fighting Haley in New Hampshire
US President Joe Biden hopes to win the votes of North Carolina, which he visited on Thursday to promote a new investment plan to enhance internet services. The state is of particular importance because it will be a battleground between Democrats and Republicans in the 2024 presidential elections.
Biden’s re-election campaign has placed great emphasis on the state and its 16 electoral votes. Biden lost it to Trump in the 2020 elections by a margin of 1.3 percent. Therefore, the state may once again tilt in favor of the Republican candidate next November.
President Joe Biden heads to North Carolina to highlight new investments worth $82 million that will connect 16,000 families to high-speed internet (AP)
Biden is trying to take advantage of his visit to Raleigh, the state capital, to promote a new investment plan worth $82 million to expand and modernize the high-speed Internet network, especially in rural counties in the state, where the White House says 16,000 families will benefit from this plan.
The economy is Biden’s weak point
This is Biden’s seventh visit to the state since he took office, and the fourth during the current month of January alone, and opinion polls indicate that Biden’s weakness among voters is the decline in the economy and the rise in inflation rates to the highest level in four decades.
Despite successfully curbing inflation to a large extent, Biden’s popularity has not risen as much as his campaign had hoped. Biden’s previous trips to the state have focused on boosting the economy and delivering a message that the economy is growing strongly, benefiting voters concerned about rising costs of living and rising prices for goods and services.
Winning North Carolina’s votes poses a challenge for President Biden’s campaign. Historically, North Carolina has not supported a single Democratic candidate since 1980, with the exception of Barack Obama in 2008. Hillary Clinton lost the state’s votes to Trump in 2016, just as Biden lost them to Trump in 2020. .
Observers say Biden needs to win liberal votes in highly educated cities, while rural areas of the state support former President Donald Trump. “We expect North Carolina to be very competitive, but President Biden and Vice President Harris have a strong record on the issues that matter to North Carolinians,” Biden’s deputy campaign manager, Quentin Foulkes, told reporters.
Trump is in control
On the other hand, the most likely Republican candidate, Donald Trump, showed great dominance over the course of the Republican Party after his strong victory in the state of Iowa last Monday. An > poll shows that voters across US states view Trump as the Republican Party’s nominee for 2024.
Donald Trump showed great dominance over the course of the Republican Party after his strong victory in the state of Iowa on Monday (AFP)
According to the poll, three out of four Republican-leaning Americans said they would be very, or somewhat, satisfied with Trump winning the Republican nomination, compared to 64 percent who said they wanted Florida Governor Ron DeSantos. 50 percent said they were satisfied with former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley.
Trump has a significant lead in this poll over DeSantos and Haley, as Republicans and voters who support the party said that Trump is the candidate who best represents their values, is the strongest leader, most understands people’s problems, and is best qualified to serve as president.
Trump is also seen as the most likely to win the New Hampshire vote next Tuesday, January 23, but Nikki Haley is advancing and narrowing the gap between her and him. Polls show that Haley’s chances have improved in recent days, and her team is placing a big bet that independent voters in New Hampshire will vote for her. Haley’s campaign has spent more than $26 million in to attract the votes of the state’s residents, and has participated in more than 50 events with voters.
A poll conducted by CNN News and the University of New Hampshire showed that 39 percent of likely Republican voters in New Hampshire would support Trump, while 32 percent would support Nikki Haley. Likewise, a poll conducted by USA Today showed that Haley was able to reduce the gap between her and Trump, but Trump is still ahead of her in New Hampshire by a large margin.
Racist attacks
Trump intensified the attack on Haley at a rally in Atkinson, New Hampshire, on Tuesday evening, and returned to the rules of the old racist game that he practices against his opponents, and put forward the theory that Haley is not qualified for the presidency because she is the daughter of Indian immigrants, and that she is a copy of Barack Hussein Obama for the year 2024, and described her as… It would be a disaster, she has done a poor job as UN Ambassador, and is not strong enough to hold the presidency.
Waiting for Nikki Haley in New Hampshire (AFP)
Trump used his favorite platform, “Truth Social,” to launch a series of criticisms and successive attacks against Haley, referring to her as Nimrada, which is her real name (Nimrada Nikki Randhawa), and she has used her middle name since her childhood. Trump posted a photo comparing Nikki Haley to Hillary Clinton. Trump repeated his attacks against Haley on Wednesday evening, accusing her of being a puppet in the hands of major donors and of being a friend of the Democrats. Trump said: “Nikki Haley is counting on the Democrats and liberals in the Republican primaries to reach the top; Because her campaign is funded by Democrats, and if Haley wins, Biden will win.”
Hailey strikes back
Republican presidential candidate and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley greets people during an election campaign in the city of Rochester, New Hampshire (AFP)
In the face of Trump’s attacks, Haley launched a counterattack, and on Wednesday, she devoted a large portion of her speech to voters to refuting Trump’s claims and what she described as lies about her political record. Haley said that Trump promotes lies and believes them, believing that repeating them makes them true.
In her attacks against Trump, Haley focused on the age factor, noting that both Trump and Biden are about 80 years old, and that the United States deserves someone better than them. Haley attacked her former boss and said that Trump had caused the debt to increase by trillions of dollars, and that both Biden and Trump lacked a vision for the future of the United States, and were mired in the past in revenge, retaliation, and investigations. Haley directed part of her attacks at her rival, Ron DeSantos, and described him as “invisible” in New Hampshire, and that his chances were close to zero in the opinion polls.
DeSantos is in third place
Republican presidential candidate, Florida Governor Ron DeSantos, addresses a crowd of supporters during an election campaign in Hampton, New Hampshire (EPA)
DeSantos finished second in Iowa, narrowly ahead of rival Nikki Haley, but polls show Haley ahead of DeSantos in New Hampshire, where moderates and independent voters play a crucial role in the primary in that state, and DeSantos is in third place in New Hampshire polls.
DeSantos’ campaign began focusing on the more conservative state of South Carolina, which holds its Republican elections on February 24th. DeSantos’ team sees the focus on South Carolina as an opportunity to beat Haley on her home turf, where she was governor of South Carolina. DeSantos campaign managers believe that defeating Haley in South Carolina will give DeSantos an opportunity to remove her from the race.
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