Listed in Washington
By Peter De Thier
The second duel between Joe Biden and Donald Trump for the presidency is inevitable in the USA. Nevertheless, two of the most prominent superstars in US professional sports have now expressed their interest in a political career. Super Bowl winner Aaron Rodgers, like independent candidate Robert Kennedy Junior, is a conspiracy theorist and opponent of corona vaccinations. He was discussed as RFK Junior’s candidate for vice-presidency.
Kennedy is said to have now decided on the lawyer Nicole Shanahan. Rodgers, like basketball icon Stephen (Steph) Curry, believes a presidential candidacy in four years is possible. The four-time NBA champion and multimillionaire, who in the past voted for Joe Biden and Barack Obama and represents socially liberal positions, reaches 56 million followers on Instagram alone. “I want to use my influence to make the world a better place,” says the superstar. “This also includes politics. And why not, possibly the presidency too,” said Curry.
Surveys on the US election are still of little significance
Donald Trump may currently be considered the favorite in a duel with incumbent President Joe Biden. Nevertheless, experts remind us that surveys just eight months before the election have little significance and that what speaks against Trump is the fact that a long list of his own former cabinet members do not want to have anything to do with a second Trump presidency. The most prominent and influential among them: Trump’s former deputy Mike Pence. The former vice president recently said that “I cannot in good conscience pledge my support to Donald Trump.”
There are also others who loyally supported Trump as advisors during his presidency. Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper said that “because of his irresponsible behavior, we cannot trust him again as president with the security of our country.” And Trump’s former attorney general Bill Barr compared him to a “rebellious nine-year-old boy who pushes the glass to the edge of the dinner table and defiantly demands his parents stop him.”
Trump also lost Republicans
Donald Trump’s then security advisor John Bolton and Jim Mattis, who was the head of the Pentagon before Esper, also consider it dangerous today if the Republican wins the election and moves back into the White House. But what does this mean for Trump’s candidacy? Mark R. from Virginia, a moderate “Reagan Republican,” is convinced that Trump is in for a rude awakening: “He needs voters like my wife, our two daughters and me,” said the lawyer. “He lost four votes in our family alone. And many other Republicans who don’t participate in polls feel the same way.”
2024-03-21 16:33:01
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