Hillary Clinton gives her support to Biden to face Trump in the electoral race | International

Who did not become The first woman president of the United States, Hillary Clinton, has given Tuesday her support for Joe Biden to defeat Donald Trump in the race for the White House. During a virtual meeting With Biden in this virtual electoral campaign as a consequence of the coronavirus pandemic, the former head of US diplomacy has declared that she wanted to add her voice “to the many” that have supported Biden to be “our president”.

Biden, 77, is not yet the official candidate of the Democratic Party, since he must be elected at the National Convention, delayed one month until the end of August by the coronavirus. However, the announcement of who shared years in the Senate with Biden joins others of importance, such as the one with Bernie Sanders or the support given to the former vice president of Barack Obama this past Monday by Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House of Representatives.

“For me this is a time when we need a leader like Joe Biden,” he stressed. Clinton in the virtual rally, referring to the situation in the United States, which registers more than a million confirmed cases of coronavirus, which has paralyzed society, brought unemployment to more than 26 million people and pushed the economy into a recession , which many hope will be the largest since the Great Depression of the 1930s. In all this crisis, the president has been erratic in his decisions and declarations from the beginning and even went so far as to suggest last week that the population treat the virus with “a disinfectant injection” or with “sunlight”.

Clinton and Biden, both senior officials in the administration of the first black president in US history, were rivals in the 2008 primary nomination process for the Democratic nomination, which ultimately Obama won. Both politicians were able to be opponents in 2016, but then Biden resigned from the campaign after the death of his son Beau Biden in 2015.

Clinton praised Biden’s career and stressed how different it would be to go through a crisis like the current pandemic with a president who “listens to the scientific facts.” “I would like you to be president right now,” added the former senator. “I think that would imply that we would have a real president. , not someone who plays a role for television, “said Clinton, in a criticism of Trump and his past as a presenter of reality shows.

According to a Pew Institute poll released Tuesday, two-thirds of Americans (67%) believe the Nov. 3 election will be “disturbed” by the coronavirus crisis. The survey revealed that seven out of ten Americans declared that they favored voting by mail for everyone who wants it, while 52% want all elections to be held by mail.

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