VStis the hour of shifty glances, of the cold sweat that replaces cold blood, the hour that tears the oaths of loyalty. Doubt has begun to arise and will spread like leprosy if Donald Trump’s campaign remains crippled against Democrat Joe Biden, whom the president attacks with disorder and without any results. On October 6, a straightforward question was asked of outgoing Republican Senator from Arizona Martha McSally during the debate between her Democratic opponent, former astronaut Mark Kelly: “Are you proud of your support for President Trump? “
Six months earlier, this pride would undoubtedly have been claimed hand over heart. On Tuesday, the former Air Force pilot clung to what she could. “I am proud to fight for Arizona every day”she replied, staring. Twice the question was asked of her, twice she dodged. Also outgoing Republican Senator from North Carolina, Thom Tillis, said in an interview with Politico than “The best control over a Biden presidency” is that “Republicans retain a majority in the Senate”, extolling the principle of checks and balances. It is not yet the save-who-can, but it is to be mistaken.
For now, nothing can reassure the Grand Old Party. Donald Trump has spoken indiscriminately since he left the hospital, and his Covid-19 has brought back to the heart of the campaign the subject he wanted to avoid above all as the cases of contamination resumed once again on the rise in the country. He found only one solution to end the embarrassment: it would suffice if ” his “ Justice Department files lawsuits against Joe Biden, a suspected 2016 conspirator of a ” Rebellion “ which undoubtedly exists only in the obsessions of the president, and the trick would be played. Republicans have looked elsewhere.
Each for himself
The debating president announced this week the end of negotiations with Congress on a new support plan deemed essential by the Federal Reserve, before changing his mind, demanding targeted aid, then finally proposing an envelope of 1,800 billion dollars (around 1,500 billion euros), instead of the 2,200 required by the speaker House of Representatives Democrat Nancy Pelosi. After having accepted years during the explosion of the federal debt, the Republicans made it known that there was no longer any question for them to support such lavishness.
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