First steps, in the United States, in view of the electoral campaign for the 2024 presidential elections.
In the Republican party Donald Trump officially has his first rival in the primaries for the White House: it is the 51-year-old Nikky Haley , former governor of South Carolina and former US ambassador to the UN (appointed by Trump himself), who has announced her descent in the field in the name of "a generational change".
Daughter of Indian immigrants, Haley proposes among other things to free the Grand Old Party, and more generally the top American nomenklatura, from gerontocracy, to make room for "a new generation of leaders".
Haley, however, is currently given as an outsider in the polls. According to the latest Reuters-Ipsos survey among registered Republican voters, Trump leads with 43%, followed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis with 31%, who however has not yet announced his candidacy. The former UN ambassador, on the other hand, is stuck at 4%.
Another leading exponent of South Carolina politics, African-American Senator Tim Scott, is also ready to take the field for the GOP primaries.
In the Democratic field, no nomination has been made official yet, but Joe Biden leads a Reuters-Ipsos poll of registered Democratic voters on the race for the White House with 35%, followed by Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (13%) and his deputy Kamala Harris (12%), while Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is at 10%. However, 52% of the dem voters interviewed say that Biden should not propose again.
(Unioneonline/lf)