100 days before the American presidential election, Nicole Bacharan, historian and political scientist specializing in the United States, analyzes the situation at the microphone of Europe 1. For her, if Joe Biden is progressing in the polls, it is more thanks to the Donald trump's popularity decline than an increase in his.

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D-100 before the US presidential election. Scheduled for November 3, 2020, it promises to be extraordinarily tense in an America divided and weakened by the pandemic, which has killed more than 140,000 there. Criticized even in his camp for his reaction to Covid-19, Donald Trump is left behind in the polls by his Democratic opponent Joe Biden. "The election is a referendum for or against Trump," said Nicole Bacharan, historian and political scientist specializing in the United States, invited to Europe 1 on Saturday.

"On social, racial, climate policy, Joe Biden has better grades. But when you look more closely, you realize that he is gaining in voting intentions, but not in popularity. It's Donald Trump who loses points, ”she explains. 

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