Remainers markedly more positive about Biden than leavers
And far fewer leavers attaching importance to Biden’s VP being a woman
Now the speculation is that Biden wants to be a two term president
Only a day after his inauguration and it might seem premature to start speculating on whether Joe Biden wants to run for the White House once again in 2024 but that is what’s happening. In an interview with Politico a senior Democratic Senator, Chris Coons from Biden’s home state of Delaware and close friend, said that the new President will run for re-election. He told Politico: “He is planning to run again. He knows that we are at the middle…
New Ipsos MORI polling finds nearly half of Brits having favourable view of Biden
The numbers are in sharp contrast to views of Trump In a new survey by Ipsos MORI, half of Britons (49%) are favourable towards the incoming President of the United States, Joe Biden, only 18% view him negatively. A similar proportion (47%) expect the USA to use its influence around the world mostly for good over the next four years under Biden’s presidency. The outgoing President, Donald Trump is not seen so positively. Perhaps unsurprising given the events of the…
The Biden era begins with his predecessor boycotting the ceremonies
Partly because of the events of two weeks ago this afternoon’s inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States seemed to take on a special significance. What were striking were the regular cutaway TV shots of groups of American soldiers not in formal ceremonial to us but in battle fatigues – a reminder of the occupation of the capital building and the onslaught on the Capitol building that that led to four people being killed. For…
And so to Trump’s final hours in office
Let the selective amnesia begin This from an excellent piece by McKay Coppins in the Atlantic under the heading “The Coming Republican Amnesia”. “As Donald Trump lurches through the disastrous final days of his presidency, Republicans are just beginning to survey the wreckage of his reign. Their party has been gutted, their leader is reviled, and after four years of excusing every presidential affront to ‘conservative values,’ their credibility is shot. How will the GOP recover from the complicity and…
Those betting that the Senate will vote to convict Trump should probably take heart from McConnell
I’ve got £100 on at 3.65 on Betfair that the Senate will vote to convict Trump when it gets round to considering the decision of the House on impeachment and could cash out at a small profit. There’s a general view that Mitch McConnell will be hugely important in influencing the votes of his fellow GOP senators. Tomorrow morning while Trump will be at the air base for a ceremony on his departure McConnell will be with Biden and other…
Trump bows out with the worst Gallup approval ratings ever for any President in 83 years of polling
Gallup, the pioneer of modern political polling, has produced its final approval ratings on Trump which have him ending his term on a record low for any President. His 41% average approval rating throughout his presidency is 4% lower than for any of his predecessors. The pollster notes: Trump is the only president not to register a 50% job approval rating at any point in his presidency since Gallup began measuring presidential job approval in 1938. Likewise, he is the…
Special relationship: the British right’s appeasement of Donald Trump
Barring a much bloodier insurrection than the one mounted two weeks ago, Joe Biden will assume the presidency of the United States on Wednesday. Where does that leave the UK? Britain has long prided itself on its special relationship with the US, choosing to overlook the fact that the US tells France that is its oldest ally, that it has a strategic partnership with Israel and so on. For many Leavers, focusing on the Anglosphere was a central rationale for…