Ten days have passed since the historic debate between the U.S. presidential candidates, Biden and Trump. While things proceed as usual for Trump and the Republican Party, Biden and the Democratic Party have entered a spiral that demands attention and deserves scrutiny. Biden stated, "I don’t walk as easily as I used to, and I don’t speak as smoothly as I did before, but I know what I know... and I know how to do this job," acknowledging his health decline. This came as a defense of his right to continue running, while supporters within his administration have started to dwindle. Meanwhile, Democratic Party leaders are searching for a viable alternative to confront Republican Donald Trump, whether it's Vice President Kamala Harris or other leaders.
Biden's enthusiastic supporters are mainly limited to his family, which strongly backs his candidacy, and some party rank-and-file who lack clarity on the party's vision and the identity of an alternative candidate. Most polls indicate that his popularity among the party base is declining and that he lags behind his Republican rival in the presidential race. The party momentum that enabled him to defeat Trump over three years ago is no longer as enthusiastic or as strong.
In contrast, Trump has easily unified the Republican Party behind him while observing the confusion and turmoil within the Democratic Party, which is looking for an alternative amidst Biden’s insistence on continuing his candidacy and refusal to entertain any replacement attempts. This confusion has reached major donors in Hollywood who are urging him to step aside, along with five Democratic members of the House who are also calling for him to step down. Biden, in an interview with ABC News, asserts that he is "the best Democratic candidate to keep Trump out of the White House," going as far as to say that "only divine intervention could convince him to change his mind."
This divergence in the Democratic Party as elections approach in November underscores that the party is experiencing a real crisis and a deep process. Biden’s insistence on running increases Trump's chances of winning. If Democratic leaders succeed in removing him and not supporting him, it could cause a schism within the party that would only benefit Trump. Eighty percent of voters believe that Biden is too old to run for a second term, comparing his health to that of people close to his age, a comparison that is not in his favor. Despite all of this, he insists with confidence and enthusiasm that matches his health and mental state that he will not step back and will continue his candidacy, managing his campaign to defeat Trump again.
Since the rise of the "liberal left" in the leadership of the Democratic Party with Obama, America has taken on a sharp and unprecedented form in its internal struggles, with Trump embodying the internal discontent rejecting that liberal leftist vision in politics and its contrary effects to America’s historical role as a global leader seeking isolation and withdrawal from the world. This liberal left soon marshaled all its ranks and resources and, under Biden's leadership, managed to defeat Trump in an election that Trump continues to assert was illegitimate and that its results were incorrect.
Trump is not the best of American presidents, but he is not the worst either. The campaign against him has entered the corridors of judicial institutions, gathering artistic figures, stars, and organized social movements, escalating the American internal conflict to unprecedented levels of tension and division. Ultimately, the longer the Democratic Party’s ranks remain disunited, the more Trump benefits, and the adage "history repeats itself," as Biden sees it, does not apply here.
