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Covid-19 cost Donald Trump reelection.

And Covid-19 is the girder on which Trump's successor Joe Biden is building his presidency.

The best example, tonight in Washington (early morning in Spain).

The president gives a speech in Congress meeting in a joint session of the Senate and the House of Representatives exactly on the day that marks one year since the declaration by the World Health Organization (WHO) that the Covid-19 constituted a pandemic, that is, an epidemic "spread throughout the world", as defined by that agency.

Thus, the date is not accidental.

Nor is it true that the White House decided it on Monday, exactly 48 hours after the United States Senate approved a new economic stimulus program, worth

1.9 trillion dollars

(almost 1.6 trillion euros, plus than all the GDP of Spain).

Just seven hours before speaking to Congress, Biden signed the stimulus bill.

Biden's objective is clear: to reaffirm his commitment in the fight against the pandemic, to sell the new stimulus package to the public, and to promote the following points on his agenda.

The first two sections are based on

a lousy experience

.

As vice president, Biden had to deal with Barack Obama's refusal to promote before the public opinion the stimulus plan approved in February 2009 to get out of the

junk mortgage crisis.

The then president's decision to address the voters gave all the initiative to the Republican Party.

Six months after the approval of the law, the populist movement of the

Tea Party was born

, which for many is the ideological basis on which Donald Trump's campaign would be based in 2016.

Biden doesn't want to lose the initiative.

So he was going to dedicate his speech not only to the stimulus plan, but also to the items on his agenda that are a priority.

Among them, two: the

rise in the Interprofessional Minimum Wage

, which has been frozen for no less than eleven years, and a new stimulus program for after the coronavirus, which provides for public spending of 3 trillion dollars (2.5 trillion dollars). euros) in infrastructure and energy transition, spread over several years.

The president arrives at the speech with a

popularity of between 49% and 56%

, according to surveys carried out by different media and companies, which indicates that the president has not lost popularity, since he won the elections with 51.3% of the popular vote.

For reference, at this point in his presidency, Trump only had the support of 38% of voters.

And Biden's main asset is his fight against Covid-19.

60% of citizens approve of his management of the pandemic.

It is a marked difference with the case of Trump, who, from July until the elections, barely managed to get

between 32% and 34%

of the voters to give him the approval in that field.

This catastrophic performance in the face of the health crisis sunk the electoral expectations of a president who had entrusted his re-election to the progress of the economy, where, even in September, at the midpoint of the pandemic, 56% of voters were satisfied with his management.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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