For America's Democratic Party, time is running out to make the right decisions whether to continue the presidential race with incumbent president Joe Biden as its candidate or to replace him with another person. Joe Biden himself shows his firm determination to stay in the race but pressures on him from inside the Democratic Party is growing. Joe Biden is losing more and more support from his party and donors. The Republican Party's presidential hopeful Donald Trump seems to get the momentum in the race between him and Biden after their CNN debate, the shooting at him in Pennsylvania, and the RNC in Milwaukee. It is because American voters now seem to care more about Biden's health and eligibility for office than about his achievements and commitments.
| Two president candidates: Donald Trump and President Joe Biden. Photo: Getty/VNA |
Therefore, the most popular belief now in America is Biden would lose the race with Trump. Trump is only four years younger than Biden but his health constitution is clearly better than Biden. It put America's Democratic Party in dilemma: to lose the White House with Biden but couldn't nominate someone other without Biden's voluntary dropping out of his race. This party is now standing before fateful decisions, and the time to make decisions is running out.
On one side, Joe Biden has to choose between himself and his party. He has his right to stay in the race, and his party hasn't any mechanism to drop out any candidate who has already won enough primaries to have the right to be officially nominated by his party as its presidential candidate. Biden is now both a problem and solution to this problem for the Democratic Party. On the other side, as like as a common saying that "The leopard cannot change his spots", it would be more than a wonder if this party would and could jump over its shadow to resolutely force Biden now to step down as president to drop out his candidacy. This party can only build up its pressure on Biden to step aside and make it possible for his party to choose and nominate another candidate. The most likely scenario now is the Democratic Party and Biden are trying together to find or work out proper ways for Biden to end his race. But time is ticking, pressing, and short. It is now or never for this party.
If Biden doesn't give up, the race between him and Trump will be boring in the next months, weeks, and days because there will be nothing new. But if he paves the way for the Democratic Party to nominate someone other, there will be a completely new game in the race and for Trump which he couldn't easily win. Trump must then totally change his campaigning strategies, political agenda, and personal behavior. For most of all American voters, a young Democratic candidate, even less known than Trump, would be more eligible than Trump. Therefore, any fateful decision by the Democratic Party and Biden would be at the same time just the same fateful for Trump.
Disclaimer: The views expressed by Ambassador Tran Duc Mau are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Hanoi Times.
