Eight months ahead of the US presidential election, the campaign moves from the parties’ nominating contests to the trench warfare of what promises to be one of the longest, most brutal head-to-head showdowns in memory.
President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump, the oldest pair of nominees in history emerged this week from a primary season that has inflicted battle scars on both, raising questions over their judgment and mental acuity.
The 81-year-old incumbent Democrat and his Republican foe, 77, see their rematch on November 5 as an existential moment for America and have spent months trading deeply personal insults in a bruising start to the campaign.
Both are unpopular with large sections of a populace wary of handing the keys to the most powerful office in the world to men born closer to the inauguration of Civil War hero Ulysses S. Grant than to November’s election.
Trump who never left the political stage after defeat in 2020 and faces dozens of pending criminal charges is likely to be dividing his time between his signature rallies and court appearances.
“It’s clearly a different election this time around you could argue both Biden and Trump are weaker, and it’s a matter of relative weakness but with a long eight months of unknowns in the way,” said Joshua Darr, a political analyst and communications professor at Syracuse University in New York.
Vanguard / Titilayo Kupoliyi
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