“This is the time to defend democracy. Our democracy is in danger,” Biden said during a rally at a university in Maryland on Monday, 7th, at a time when the Republican Party appears to be gaining an advantage over the Democrats.
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This new composition of Congress will continue until 2024, and could be a thorn in Biden's side.
Elected in 2021 thanks, in large part, to the support of the African-American community, the Democrat tried to mobilize this portion of the population again in the last days before this Tuesday's vote.
In front of an audience of supporters – with the exception of some opposition voices quickly expelled from the venue – Biden described the Republicans as the party that “wants to undo” the social gains made under his administration.
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Biden has said he intends to run for re-election in 2024, but the prospect does not appeal to all Democrats because of his age (he will soon turn 80) as well as his unpopularity.
The first polls opened at 6 am this Tuesday, 8th, on the American East Coast (8 am in Brasília). More than 40 million people voted early across the country.
Trump and Republican plans
Donald Trump spoke shortly after Joe Biden, at a rally organized in Ohio, an emblematic industrial state in the American Midwest where he managed to seduce the middle class, mostly white, who live in the countryside or on the outskirts, and who believe they have lost prominence with globalization.
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Trump said he will make “a big announcement” at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida on November 15, as he flirts with the possibility of a third presidential run.
“In 2024, we will recover our magnificent White House,” said the former president in his speech. “We were a great nation and we will be a great nation again,” he continued, adding, “This is the year we take back the House of Representatives and the Senate, and most importantly, in 2024, we take back our magnificent White House.”
He also dedicated a good part of his speech to polls that place him in a favorable position in American states, both in a party primary to elect a presidential candidate and in a hypothetical rerun of the 2020 electoral contest against Biden.
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The former president criticized the Democrats, described the current situation in the United States as “the beginning of communism” and called, as he has done on previous occasions, for the death penalty for drug and human traffickers.
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