Choice theme
Which political commentator will be the first to express the Democrats' need to find a presidential candidate who can be styled with a toothbrush moustache, Luger pistol and German shepherd dog to give the opposition a fight?
Joe Biden: "I'm not running" US President Joe Biden will not run in this fall's presidential election. He says this in an open letter to X. "It is best for both my party and my country to step down," he writes.
SVT's Stefan Åsberg sees difficulties for the Democrats going forward now. "He puts his party colleagues in a completely impossible situation to build a campaign and challenge Donald Trump. It is more or less doomed to fail," says Stefan Åsberg. Watch the feature on SVT News.
Fouad Youcefi on Biden: "An impossible situation" Joe Biden is not running for president in 2024. This after ending up in an impossible situation, according to SVT's US correspondent Fouad Youcefi: "The starting point was the debate where he behaved confused several times against Donald Trump.
After the debate, criticism within the Democrats began to grow. First came the criticism among the public, which lost confidence and support fell. Then came anonymous information from various politicians and donors within the party about their dissatisfaction and insecurity, but then anonymously. "Then slowly but surely came the open demands that he should step down. The starting point for that was the actor George Clooney," says Fouad Youcefi. Watch the feature on SVT News.