From our correspondent in the United States,
In a room without an audience, he looked America straight in the eye. At the Democratic convention on Thursday evening, Joe Biden officially accepted his party's nomination for the November 3 presidential election. This election, he warned, is "a fight for the soul" of America. In a serious tone, he called on voters to mobilize to turn the “dark” page of the Trump years, which he accused of having “stoked the flames of hatred” and “failed to protect the country” against the Covid -19.
Biden called for "to judge Donald Trump on the facts", with "3 million Americans infected with Covid-19 and more than 170,000 dead", or "much more than any other country in the world". “He said the virus was going to go away on its own. He was counting on a miracle, but I have a plan ”, which notably includes the wearing of the mask compulsory throughout the country. "It's patriotic".
A referendum on Donald Trump
Joe Biden spoke about the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, and Donald Trump's response (“There are good people on both sides”). He vowed that he would not remain unanswered in the face of "Russian bounties (to the Taliban) to kill American soldiers". “With a President Biden, the hour of flattery to dictators will be over. And he promises to build on Barack Obama's health and environmental successes to "improve the lives of our children and the middle class."
For Joe Biden, it is the culmination of a political career that has spanned nearly half a century. When he speaks to those who have lost a loved one in the pandemic and says to them: "I know the pain of losing someone you love", it is not a ready-made formula. Joe Biden lost his wife and daughter in a terrible car accident when he had just been elected senator at just 30 years old. In 2015, his son Beau died of brain cancer. According to Joe Biden, "the only way to overcome grief is to find a purpose ." And his goal today is to "save our democracy" - a hyperbole Obama had used the day before.
The awakening of "Sleepy" Joe
On Thursday night, Joe Biden didn't really give a lot of details about his policy and program. Which can basically boil down to a third term of "ObamaBiden". He chose to make this election a moral battle between "darkness and light", a referendum for or against Donald Trump.
The latter visibly realized that Biden's speech, with the false air of presidential address, had been greeted, including by Fox News, because he assured on Twitter that they were "only words". Former Republican Party spokesman Doug Heye estimates for 20 Minutes that Joe Biden, a blundering machine who often loses his train of thought, "recovered at the best time. He was very strong ”. Donald Trump, who calls him "Sleepy Joe", may have to find a new nickname for him.
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