America’s presidential election is surging to new controversies day by day. This is the second time in the past four years that the Democratic presidential marked the expansion of a progressive movement against an eventually victorious establishment in America.
The democratic party gathers virtually this week to elect Joe Biden as the presidential nominee for this year’s election which is scheduled in November. The possibility of Trump’s re-election has now become Democrats ‘unifying and energizing force.’
“Nobody fits neatly and tightly into any one bucket,” said Georgia Democratic Chairwoman Nikema Williams. “What we all fit into is knowing that right now we don’t have leadership in our country, and it’s hurting all of us.”
Democrats are trying to build a coalition between Biden’s supporter and Bernie Sander’s supporter, who finished as the runner-up this year for them on the vote count for the presidency nominee spot. This is where they failed in Hilliary Clinton’s Presidential election campaign in 2016.
Biden has done pretty well in managing the internal party politics and the urgency to defeat Trump. Still, many party ideologies are contradicting internally in the Democrats; achieving universal health care, making higher education affordable, overhaul law enforcement practices, and reengage with the countries revenging America’s role in the world. On the other hand, the leaders on the left side warn Biden to keep their interest in mind because the only the victory in November won’t guarantee a united front in Biden’s administration.
“Progressives are going to vote against Trump,” said Stephanie Taylor, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, but she called it “demoralizing and wrong” for Biden’s and the Democratic National Committee. Taylor also marked Biden’s pick of Kamala Harris as his running mate for the vice-presidency term. She is also the first Black woman on a major party’s ticket.
“If Biden and Harris want to energize progressives to donate and volunteer,” Taylor said, “they need to elevate leaders like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Julian Castro, and policies like canceling student debt and Medicare for All. Progressive energy matters, and voter energy matters. We’re fighting Trump as hard as we can right now — just don’t take that for granted.”
Even after the Biden’s five decades at the center of the Democratic Party, he was never the hundred percent choice for the Democrats.
