How university protests affect the future of the Biden administration
Things are getting marginally better for him President Biden given that the absolutely necessary, educated young people are being removed from his voter pool.
Republican voters are pro-Israel
That is, the students who demonstrate at the universities, which does not mean that they will turn to the Republicans in the next election, it means they will stay home and not vote, which will essentially have the same effect.
Reinforcement and possibly Trump’s electionwho, let’s remember, is much tougher both on the issue of the protesters and on the reason for these protests in the management of the crisis in Gaza.
So the problem that has arisen is purely a Democratic problem as Republican voters are – almost without exception – in favor of a tough police stance on universities and clearly in favor of Israel.
Policemen invade a University building © ERA/STEPHANI SPINDEL
Youth support for Biden has declined
As the Biden administration continued to support Israel, the US president became increasingly the focus of criticism from young people. Polls show that young Americans’ support for Biden has declined from 2020.
Analysts estimate that if something doesn’t change, that’s exactly why every vote will count in Novemberit is very likely that today’s university crisis will cost Biden the presidency.
“With Biden narrowly ahead of Donald Trump in several key states, this is a bloc of voters the president cannot afford to lose,” notes the Guardian.
“The real threat to Biden is that younger voters, especially college-educated voters, they will not support him in the electionssaid Jonathan Zimmerman, professor of history of education at the University of Pennsylvania.
“I wouldn’t expect the protesters at the universities today to vote for Trump, almost none of them will. That is not the danger here. The danger is much simpler: that they simply won’t vote,” he added.
Donald Trump in his speech in Michigan © ERA/NICK HAGEN
Trump: “Rejoicing” over the intervention in Colombia
“Rabid lunatics and Hamas supporters,” Trump called the students at Columbia.
At a campaign rally yesterday in the state of Wisconsin, the Republican candidate for the presidency of the United States, Donald Trump, said that “it was nice to see NY cops raiding” at a Columbia University building occupied by pro-Palestinian students and called on authorities to break up the protest rallies rocking college campuses across the length and breadth of the United States.
“New York was under siege last night,” Trump told supporters at a campaign rally in Waukesha, Wisconsin. praising the police for arresting some 300 protesters at Columbia University and City College of New York, which he characterized as “rabid lunatics and Hamas supporters“, while in another statement last week he claimed that the pro-Palestinian protests are motivated by “tremendous hatred”.
Although there are variations from school to school, in general students demand an immediate ceasefire in the war in Gaza and the disengagement of their universities from military and economic ties with Israel.
“We must immediately remove the camps, crack down on the extremists, and take back universities for all normal students who want a safe place to learn,” Trump said.
