The 81-year-old Biden, so far, has been defiant (挑戦的)about staying in the race – a message he drove home(強調する)at a campaign rally in Wisconsin and in an ABC interview Friday. Biden said only the “Lord Almighty” telling him to do do would prompt him to leave the race.
What you need to know about the candidates who could replace Biden on the 2024 ticket
2024年大統領選でバイデンの後任となる可能性のある候補者について知っておくべきこと
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★各有力者に対して、「強み」(Pros)と「弱み」(Cons)を要約してみよう。
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Kamala Harris カマラ・ハリス
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a post debate campaign rally, Friday, June 28, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ronda Churchill) 6月28日金曜日、ラスベガスでの討論会後の選挙集会でスピーチするカマラ・ハリス副大統領
Pros:
Harris would portray (描写する)herself as the younger and more capable alternative(別の選択肢) to Trump, who remains a singularly(著しく) unpopular figure who lost the popular vote twice. She has the ability to position herself as the candidate who represents a vision of what Democrats see as America’s political future: a smart, younger, non-white woman who has proven herself on the highest stages.
👩ここで書かれている"the popular vote"というのは、いわゆる「国民投票」ということで、大統領選で一般の国民が大統領にふさわしいと考えた人に投票した数の争いです。トランプは、過去、クリントン候補とバイデン候補に2回国民投票数で負けています。 しかし、選挙人獲得数がクリントン候補を上回っていたので大統領になりました。 実際の当選は「選挙人の獲得数」で決まるので、国民投票で負けても選挙人獲得数で勝つと大統領になるということになります。選挙人の数は州の人口数によって割り当てられます。いわゆる人口の多い州と少ない州の投票数の重みを是正したのが「選挙人」システムです。各州で最多得票者が選挙人を総取りするので、国民投票数と選挙人の獲得数によって、結果が異なる場合があります。
Cons:
Some believe America is not ready to vote for a woman, let alone (ましては)a Black woman, for the nation’s highest office.
Republicans say she has a so-so record as vice president and Trump would certainly rip (ずたずたにする)her for failing to solve the crisis at the southern border.
Harris’s identity as a California progressive(進歩主義者) could be a particularly toughsell(売り込み) in the Rust Belt battleground (激戦区) states that look likely to determine the next president.
The California governor is a popular, young, considered(~と考えられている) effective (仕事ができる) and is an articulate(雄弁な) leader of the biggest blue state of ’em all.. He showed he can land and take political punches when he battled Gov. Ron DeSantis in a one-on-one slugfest(激闘)during the primary campaign.
California Gavin Gavin Newsom speaks with supporters during a stop Thursday, July 4, 2024, at the Van Buren County Democratic Party Fourth of July reception in South Haven, Mich. (Don Campbell/The Herald-Palladium via AP)
Newsom’s slicked-back (背筋を伸ばした)West Coast image would be a problem in the Midwest.
Republicans would have a field day(存分にできる機会を持つ)attacking him for the perceived problems of the Golden State(カリフォルニア州の愛称), where they say high taxes and liberal policies have led to (~を招いた) anexodus(人口流出) and population decline.
Like any other white candidate, he could likely emerge (現れる)deeply wounded from (~で傷つく)what could be an any ugly fight over the nomination and the perception(認識) that a capable Black woman waspassed over (見送られた)for a white man.