Analysis: The outgoing US president seeks to describe his presidency as more than the defeat of Kamala Harris’s defeat.
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President Joe Biden is in the section. Less than a week between him and his departure from the White House, Washington and, in all likelihood, the American political scene in general.
He works overtime and describes, according to his situations, an inheritance that once realized that he would still have 4 years to build. But its broader American party and the global American politician do not seem to agree with a vision that, more and more, is now an illusion.
To draw this symbol of his mandate in the White House, the president has selected two more addresses this week. One occurred on Monday, from now on workers of the United States Department of State, aimed at the world presence of the United States with Joe Biden to the helm. A second, your farewell address will be delivered on Wednesday in possible hours.
The two had to offer a much more pink vision of the functionality of their management than even some members of their own party are in a position to allow it. And they have a shared objective: to make the presidency of Biden mean something more in the minds of the Americans than to be just sending the defeat of Kamala Harris opposite to Donald Trump.
“Today, I can inform the American people, our resources of the National Force are much more powerful than when we assume their duties,” Biden said on Monday, adding that the US parts in war were in the ‘Converse “weaker than them. They were when we entered these paintings 4 years ago.
He was going to boast that “he left the next administration with a very strong hand to play”, with “an America that once returned, a unit of the countries, building the agenda, bringing our plans and our missions to the combination of others , “And the one who is no longer at war. “
In truth, the American public of what “at war” has changed radically, leaving Biden behind. No member of the American service is involved in direct struggle missions, however, the Pentagon has just admitted that the number of troops in Syria is twice what had been reported for months. Meanwhile, the US army continues to compete with the huti forces in waters around Yemen and US forces helped intercept authorized missiles through Iran in Israel in October.
An attack of the media in its last days has also undermined this image. On Sunday, the 60 minutes of CBS broadcast a giant investigation into the role of the United States at the Israeli headquarters of Gaza, transmitting shocking photographs of young young people who play with an unplanned recipe through the United States and other debris of the Weapons D ‘through the weapons provided by the United States. Former state department officials told the network that they had hurried to avoid relaunching alarms for human rights violations.
In MSNBC, the network that hired former Biden press secretary to organize a program, the host of the opinion in Prime Hours, Chris Hayes, denounced the president last week for having left “a shameful heritage” with his almost unwavering Benjamin Netanyahu and the government. of Israel last year. This “caused unpublished injuries to the liberal foreign order,” said Hayes because he said that he undermined the American convictions of human rights violations in positions such as China and Russia.
The president will argue his arguments about internal policy tomorrow night. However, this component of its inheritance is delivered with a giant asterisk: Donald Trump. How many of his decisions and political achievements in the next 4 years, the president entered Washington with a unified control of Congress?
This consultation is related to the truth that Trump aims to make a great expulsion program in force when assuming the position, and with a republican congress, it is also very likely that he points to transgender Americans. Republicans are aimed The outgoing president controlled cycle 2024.
Biden himself made sure that the fault would happen last week with a couple of statements that claimed that the elections had been won despite their resolution to supply a re -election until July when it was despite everything discarded after a disastrous debate. performance.
The president told Newshouings that “he would have defeated Trump, he could have defeated Trump,” then echoed those comments in an interview with USA Today, even admitting that he is not sure he could meet a full moment. The Vietor Tommy of Pod Save America described Biden’s responses as “delusional thought. “
He was no longer the speaker even five years ago and disappeared at the maximum of his own game, Joe Biden fights a difficult war to write his last chapter.
The silence without stopping from Kamala Harris, his vice president, makes the stage even more doubtful for him. While writing her own future, the woman called at the last minute to update the 46th President, who led her crusade for 107 days, can also finish it.
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