TEHRAN, Sept 09 -An American political analyst and activist says leading US Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden’s prospects are even lower than the previous elections’ also-ran Hillary Clinton.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) -Myles Hoenig, who ran for Congress in 2016 as a Green Party candidate, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Sunday.
“Clinton’s political positions were so far to the right,” he said, adding, “Biden is in a similar situation.”
“His political views are very conservative, anti-environmental, and pro-war, nothing that would truly engage or electrify especially younger voters,” Hoenig noted.
As one instance of political posturing that shrinks Biden’s powerbase, he cited his views in the run-up to the 2013 US-led invasion of Iraq and the war itself.
Hoenig said Biden’s fellow Democratic presidential aspirants at least acknowledge that the invasion was “a mistake.”
Not only does Biden fail to do that, but also he “blames [former president George W.] Bush for convincing him to go to war against Iraq, rather than saying the war was an act of aggression on the US’s part,” the analyst observed, noting, “For that matter, there really isn’t any Democrat running who would say that.”
Many people, who would more likely vote for a progressive Democrat were, therefore, likely to stay home, “seeing only personality as a difference, not policy,” the expert stated. “That could mean another four years of a Republican administration, with or without [current President Donald] Trump,” he added.
In 2016, at the end of Barack Obama’s limit of consecutive presidential mandates, Trump raised eyebrows by stunning Clinton thanks to the US’s Electoral College system.
The system overrides the popular vote, which gives the victory to the candidate winning the most ballots. It instead makes 538 “electors” across different states, who are chosen based on each state’s representation in Congress, liable for electing the chief executive. Therefore, a contestant securing at least 270 of the electoral votes will win the presidential race.
Trump’s victory came while Clinton had received three million more popular votes.
Earlier in the month, the results of an ABC News/Washington Post poll came out, showing that Biden, who used to serve as the US vice president under Obama, remained the favorite presidential candidate among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents in the 2020 nomination field.
Source:presstv
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