The election race in America is going through unusual stages. The prospect of President Joe Biden dropping out of the race has changed things. Troubles are mounting for the Democratic Party.
A majority of Democrats chose Vice President Kamala Harris, 55, as the best presidential candidate. Top Democratic leaders have repeatedly called on President Biden over the past two weeks to withdraw from the race so that the Democratic Party can save some of its electoral stakes.
Now 12 more prominent Democrats have called on President Biden to drop his re-election bid. Under the leadership of these Democrats, a rally was held outside the US President’s House. The participants of the rally shouted slogans and asked President Biden to prioritize the country over becoming a presidential candidate.
Senator Chris Coons says that now President Biden has started thinking about withdrawing from the election race. He has also started saying that Kamala Harris is eligible to become Sir. At the same time, he has consulted with his family.
- The second US presidential debate is scheduled to take place on television ABCMain photo: EFE
Former US President Donald Trump said on July 23 that he would be willing to debate the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris, on several occasions.
“I would actually be willing to have more than one debate,” the Republican candidate said in a call with the media organized by the Republican National Committee.
The former president said he sees it as a positive thing that candidates confront their ideas through a debate. The tycoon was officially nominated as a candidate at the Republican Convention, which took place between July 15 and 18, two days after of the attack he suffered at a rally in Pennsylvania.
Trump also criticized the fact that the second debate will be held on television. ABCas agreed with Joe Biden’s campaign months ago. The first took place in CNN on June 27 and many experts believe that, due to his performance, that event was the trigger Biden’s abandonment of his re-election bid.
The former president said he is not “enthusiastic” about having a debate organized by ABCIn a message on Truth Social published on July 21, he asked that the debate be on the conservative channel Fox Newsinstead of in ABC.
Kamala aims to win the Democratic nomination
On July 21, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris thanked President Joe Biden for his support in her role as his replacement in the race for the White House and confirmed that she wants to be chosen by the Democratic Party to face Republican Donald Trump in November.
“I am honored to have the President’s endorsement and intend to win this nomination,” she said in a letter published an hour after Biden announces that he is withdrawing from the presidential race and asked for support for Harris.
The vice president said she will do everything in her power “to unite the Democratic Party” and the nation to “defeat Donald Trump.” “We have 107 days until Election Day. Together we will fight. And together we will win,” she said.
According to Harris, Biden’s decision to decline his bid for re-election as US president is a “selfless and patriotic” act.
“On behalf of the American people, I thank Joe Biden for his extraordinary leadership as President of the United States and for his decades of service to our country. His remarkable legacy of achievement is unparalleled in modern American history and surpasses the legacy of many presidents who have served two terms,” he said.
Harris recalled that she met Biden through her son Beau (who died of a brain tumor) because they worked together as prosecutors and she recalled that he had “the same values” as his father.
How many delegates does Kamala Harris need to be nominated?
US Vice President Kamala Harris is emerging as the presumptive Democratic Party candidate, with 1,976 delegates out of the 4,000 in total. The minimum number of delegates a Democratic candidate needs is 1,968, a figure Harris has already surpassed.
The Democratic Convention, which is the event where the candidate for that political party is officially nominated, will be held in the city of Chicago (Illinois) between August 19 and 22 of this year.
With information from EFE.
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2024-07-24 14:33:57
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due to arrive in Washington on Monday amid historic political turmoil. He is scheduled to meet with outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden and address a divided Congress amid fears of a growing regional war in the Middle East.
The Israeli prime minister’s visit will come just a day after Biden withdrew from the presidential race, and will be a major test of Biden’s ability to project US influence and contain Israel in the final years of his term.
Netanyahu will be forced to walk a fine line as he balances between Donald Trump’s Republican Party and a reinvigorated Democratic campaign that may unite behind the vice president, Kamala Harris.
Speaking to reporters from the tarmac at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport, Netanyahu said he was scheduled to go to the US because “Israel is at war on seven fronts and there is great political uncertainty in Washington.”
He added, “I will work to solidify the bipartisan support that is so important to Israel.”
Netanyahu is expected to meet with Biden and Harris, as he comes under pressure from the highest levels of the Israeli military and much of the Israeli public to agree to a ceasefire in Gaza. He is scheduled to address a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, where he was invited by House Speaker Mike Johnson.
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The two leaders have had a strained relationship and Netanyahu is seen as waiting for Biden’s administration to end for a second Trump term. But Biden’s exit from the campaign creates new uncertainty for the election, and could embolden Biden during talks with Netanyahu, analysts and insiders in Washington say.
“I actually think the announcement puts him in a stronger position, because the likelihood of policy continuity into a Democratic administration is more likely now,” said Kori Schake, director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute.
But while the Israeli prime minister’s arrival in Washington could smooth the way to a ceasefire deal, his critics worry Netanyahu will use the visit to seek support to continue and perhaps even expand fighting in what has become Israel’s longest war.
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“Netanyahu wants to speak in the US over the heads of Congress and go far beyond Joe Biden to Donald Trump, who has previously called Netanyahu a weak leader,” said Gershon Baskin, a former Israeli hostage negotiator.
The Israeli leader will deliver a message of support to Trump, anticipating a possible return to the White House, looking for ways to sustain Israel’s military action in Gaza in return, Baskin said.
A senior European diplomat said hopes for a ceasefire deal were limited. “His own political life is tied to this war in Gaza,” the diplomat said. “I think in that sense, some of the conflict has to continue.”
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Netanyahu’s office released a photo of him on board a government plane shortly after his departure, sitting next to a blue hat embroidered with the words “total victory.”
Several of those held hostage by Hamas militants in Gaza and freed during previous hostage deals are expected to travel with Netanyahu to Washington.
Their decision to do so has raised controversy for relatives of some of the 116 hostages believed to remain in Gaza, who last week asked former hostage Noa Argamani not to fly with Netanyahu “as decoration.”
The Israeli leader claims that only military pressure will free the remaining hostages, while 70% of Israelis believe Netanyahu is responsible for failing to secure a deal, according to a poll released the night before his departure for Washington.
Israeli protesters and even the military chief have called for a deal with Hamas that would release hostages in exchange for a lull in fighting. Negotiators from Israel’s Mossad intelligence service are expected in Qatar later this week, resuming talks that have dragged on since early this year.
Shortly after Netanyahu’s departure, the Israeli military announced that two of the hostages held by Hamas had been killed in recent months, saying it was investigating the causes of death including the possibility that at least one was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.
A 17-year-old former hostage wrote on social media about 35-year-old Yagev Buchshtab, whom she described meeting briefly during their time in Hamas custody. “The state could have saved him,” she wrote.
The ceasefire deal in Gaza could also cool tensions across the region, after a drone sent by Yemen’s Houthi militants struck Tel Aviv over the weekend. Israeli forces responded with airstrikes on Yemen’s Hodeidah port.
American mediators are also working to prevent an escalation in fighting between Israeli forces and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia, which has fired rockets and drones into northern Israel, while Israeli forces have responded with a series of strikes inside Lebanese territory.
The Houthis and Hezbollah have said they will end their attacks if Israeli forces halt military action in Gaza and allow more humanitarian aid in. More than 39,000 people have been killed by Israel’s fierce offensive in the territory, amid widespread criticism of the Biden administration for supplying Israel with weapons.
Despite assurances from US officials that a deal is close, those with close knowledge of the negotiations remain skeptical, accusing Netanyahu of obstructing a deal ahead of his visit to Washington and perhaps in the longer term.
“From the ground, it doesn’t look like we’re heading towards a ceasefire,” said Nadav Weiman, deputy head of Breaking the Silence, an organization of former Israeli soldiers critical of the state.
“It doesn’t look like our prime minister wants a ceasefire or a hostage deal, because more than anything he cares about himself, and avoiding a trial. For that, he needs his right-wing coalition. He came to Congress for Benjamin Netanyahu, to see his buddy Trump, he wants an audience with him more than Biden I think.”
Netanyahu’s visit comes days after an international court ruled that Israel’s occupation of the West Bank is illegal and that it must stop settlement construction immediately.
The chief prosecutor of the international criminal court, Karim Khan, filed in May for arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Israel’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. (The Guardian/Z-3)
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Washington, Jul 22 (EFE).- U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday secured enough delegates to secure her nomination by the Democratic Party as a candidate for the November presidential election, according to California Congressman Robert Garcia.
“California just voted unanimously to nominate Kamala Harris for President. Our delegates have put the Vice President over the required number she needs to be our nominee for the convention!” Garcia wrote on X.
To win the nomination in the first round of voting, a candidate needs the support of at least 1,976 delegates out of a total of 4,000.
These pledges of support from delegates are a symbolic show of support for Harris, as delegates could change their minds between now and the August vote.
Harris would not officially become the party’s presidential nominee until delegates formally vote in a virtual roll call expected to conclude Aug. 7.
The vice president, who announced her candidacy yesterday after President Joe Biden withdrew from the race, is already the Democrats’ favorite candidate after having received the support of Biden, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and all of the country’s Democratic governors – some of whom were rumored to be possible candidates.
However, other candidates who obtain the nomination signatures of at least 300 delegates, and no more than 50 from any one state, could run.
If only one candidate, most likely Harris, meets the 300-signature threshold, virtual voting could take place as early as Aug. 1, party officials told local media Monday, and if there are multiple candidates, voting would take place days later but would be completed by Aug. 7.
If the nomination takes place in early August, the Democratic convention, to be held on August 19 in Chicago, will be a purely ceremonial affair.
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2024-07-23 11:51:00