While the Iowa caucus, the first leg of the Democratic nomination contest for the November 3 presidential election, was held on Monday February 3, "Le Monde" is launching its campaign logbook. A daily update, first of all five days a week until September, with campaign facts, political advertisements, polls, maps and figures that allow us to follow and experience the most important electoral competition in the world.
Throughout the "invisible primary," between his nomination in April and the Iowa caucuses on February 3, former vice president Joe Biden had rested on his favorite status. Considered the most dangerous candidate for President Donald Trump, he practically limited his program to the promise of winning over the billionaire. The setback suffered in Iowa, where he finished fourth and could be repeated in New Hampshire, on February 11, prompted the former vice president to attack his rivals.
He attacked Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, pinned for his attachment to "socialism" which could be, according to Joe Biden, devastating for the Democratic camp, as well as the youngest of the race, Pete Buttigieg, mocked in a campaign advertisement for his meager record as mayor of South Bend, a medium-sized town in Indiana. The former vice president assured Sunday, February 9, that the young candidate, despite his victory over the wire in Iowa "Is not Barack Obama". the reply was not long in coming. "He is right, I am not Barack Obama, but neither is he"retorted Pete Buttigieg.
Joe Biden could also bear the brunt of the push by centrist senator Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota), credited with a good performance during the debate on February 7, and which gathered for the first time an enthusiastic crowd, Sunday, in Nashua , in western New Hampshire, when meetings of the former vice-president attract little.
So far, Joe Biden has highlighted the strength of support from the African-American community, which he says will manifest itself in the South Carolina primary on February 29. Except that the Vermont senator and billionaire activist Tom Steyer have decided to tackle this supposed stranglehold. Bernie Sanders is trying to cultivate the enthusiasm of young black voters in this state, which could help him avoid a repeat of his poor performance in 2016 primary when the African Americans overwhelmingly supported his opponent Hillary Clinton .
