According to polls, President Donald Trump is lagging behind Joe Biden in the US election campaign.
He attacks his opponent sharply - because of the fires on the west coast and Corona.
Joe Biden is running as the
US Democratic candidate
in the 2020 US election.
The
Democrat Biden sharply attacks
President
Donald Trump's
policies
.
Meanwhile, the Republican incumbent Trump is sowing doubts in the election campaign - and announcing a corona vaccine.
Washington -
For
US presidential candidate
*
Joe Biden
*
running the
campaign
against the incumbent government of the
United States
,
Donald Trump
*
, so far successful.
According to the latest
polls
from mid-September, challenger Biden was well ahead of his opponent.
Even Trump's bull market channel Fox News saw Biden ahead by five percentage points.
In a survey by a team from the University of Southern California, the Democrat got 52 percent, while the incumbent got just 42 percent.
And the website
Realclearpolitics.com
, which aggregates averages from current surveys, was 7.1 percentage points behind US President Trump.
2020 US election: Joe Biden wants to make Kamala Harris the first black vice president
After the murder of the African-American
George Floyd
*
and countless
"Black Lives Matter" protests *
worldwide, the concerns of black US citizens came back to the fore again.
Biden
, followed the hope of many
African Americans
for a black
woman to run for president
.
The 77-year-old announced at the beginning of March that if he won the
2020 US election
*, he would make
a woman
vice president
.
Never in US history has a woman held this position.
Ultimately, US Senator
Kamala Harris
*
prevailed over her competitors.
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The election campaign between Donald Trump and Joe Biden is preoccupying the United States.
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While the Democratic candidate is on the rise, the current president is sowing
doubts
before
election day
on November 3rd
.
"We will only lose this election if it is manipulated," claimed Trump in the election campaign.
The
United States of America, one of the oldest democracies in the world, is also facing unprecedented challenges
because of the
corona pandemic
*
.
The number of
postal voters
is likely to be higher than ever, but outdated voting machines are still used in many places.
Nevertheless,
experts are
sure that
electoral fraud is not possible
.
"There is a system to prevent election fraud," said John Hudak of the US think tank Brookings Institute.
Harvard professor Stephen Ansolabehere agreed with Hudak: “Trump's allegations mean that everyone will look closely.
And when everyone looks, it becomes difficult to cheat. "
2020 US election: Democrat Joe Biden with verbal attacks against President Trump over corona vaccine and fires
Meanwhile, Joe Biden made harsh
charges
against President Donald Trump.
“The President's first job is to protect the American people, and he will not.
That completely disqualifies him, "Biden confirmed to his political opponent that he was unsuitable for the job in the White House.
The Democrat is critical of
Trump's handling of the
Corona crisis
*
and his announcement that the US could have a
vaccine
*
in a few weeks
.
"Let me be clear about one thing: I trust vaccines, I trust scientists, but I don't trust Donald Trump," affirmed Biden.
Video: forest fires caused by dry leaves?
For Biden Trump is a "climate arsonist"
The head of state of the USA, however, also assessed the
devastating fires on the west coast of
the country in his own way.
Trump does not see
climate change
and
global warming
as causes - contrary to scientific results.
"I don't think science knows," said the US President.
Trump mainly criticized the local forest management with regard to the forest fires, the word climate change was not mentioned in his remarks.
Biden countered this with
sharp criticism
and predicted a
bleak future for
the USA
: "Donald Trump's denial of climate change probably did not cause these fires and record floods and record hurricanes, but if he gets a second term these infernal events will be more frequent, more destructive and more deadly. ”
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Donald Trump's climate denial may not have directly caused the record fires we're seeing on the West Coast.
But if he gets four more years in the White House, they'll only become more common, devastating, and deadly.
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- Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 16, 2020
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