Two antagonistic profiles in the fight for the White House

In the age of social networks, where the ability to attract attention is rewarded with recognition, there appears a nondescript Joe Biden ready to fight for the presidency of the United States, again, in 2024. He will face the king of show business, donald trumpthat first he will have to win his party’s primaries, something that seems very possible.

Both candidates represent contrasting styles in which prudence, low and calm profile, almost bored with the current presidentcontrasts that the bravado, excessive energy and stage control of the former president. The question is whether, in a post-pandemic world, in which several wars are being fought and where the threat of an economic recession has not yet disappeared, the profile of the silent Democratic leader will prevail or the overwhelming personality of the Republican will prevail.

Joe Biden’s character has received multiple qualifications: timid, quiet, slow rhetoric and frustrating even to his supporters at times. But he has also received praise for his restraint, ability to prevail in negotiations and, as seen so far, for winning elections against his rival Donald Trump. He has demonstrated this in the 2020 presidential and 2022 legislative elections.

They are extensive experience at the first level of American politics (36 years as a senator by Delaware, eight as vice president with Obama and since 2020 as president) have given it efficiency for tasks that go unnoticed by the general public but that are essential for governance, such as the approval of budgets or the ability to move forward, without fanfare, outstanding bipartisan projects such as the Infrastructure Law or the Chips Law. and Science.

Biden has managed, in his own way, not only to stay in politics for over 40 years but to rise to the top in the stormy atmosphere of Washington, which few know like him. And he has done it by building trust and empathy with a sufficient number of voters who have supported him thus far. His greatest challenge, however, begins now. to their 80 years He will have to show that he is still capable of prevailing over the torrent of energy that characterizes his great rival, who, despite being harassed on various legal fronts, maintains good approval ratings and presents himself, several years after coming into politics, as the great regenerator.

The New York businessman represents the exact opposite of Biden. Excess, excess and chaos settled in the White House upon his arrival and continue to be part of his presidential campaign. These are characteristics that, despite their lack of previous experience in politics, make up a context in which the former president moves like a fish in water for his ability to improvise and his desire for leadership.

Good knowledge of how the media works and social networks, he is an expert in generating headlines. Not in vain did he achieve popularity thanks to a television contest and he is currently the owner of his own social network (Truth Social), from which he posts messages at odd hours just like he did on Twitter before it was account suspended for “the risk of incitement to violence.”

The impulsive personality, strong leadership style, and rhetoric that plays on populism, half-truths and the defense of facts such as the reiteration that Biden fraudulently became president, despite the fact that the court dismissed it after several investigations, are a mark of his universe. All this has generated a court of faithful followers who are above his problems with justice, the testimonies against some people who have worked for him or his divisive rhetoric.

This is the possible scenario that in a few months could give rise to the next presidential campaign. A new old feud between two contenders who know each other well. It would be the seventh repetition in the history of US electoral contests and the first since the 1950s, with the dispute over Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower contra the democrat adlai Stevenson, both in 1952 and in 1956. In both elections, the victory went to the conservative. Something that Joe Biden seems to have learned in his first term but that does not guarantee victory for the second.