Suddenly, less than four months before the presidential elections, US President Joe Biden decided to withdraw from the US elections scheduled for 5 November, in response to pressure and appeals from his supporters. This is after Democrats lost confidence in his physical and mental ability to overcome Republican candidate Donald Trump, and at the same time Biden announced his support for his deputy, Kamala Harris, to be the Democratic Party’s candidate for the presidential elections.
The winner of this election will be inaugurated on 20 January 2025. This will take place at the same time as elections for the US Senate, House of Representatives, state governors, and state legislatures.
Biden’s jolts:
Since winning the US presidential elections in 2021, US President Joe Biden’s domestic and foreign policy has caused crises within the White House and shook the pillars of the administration, especially the president’s handling of the Palestinian issue and Middle East issues, and Biden’s senior advisors had previously admitted that the conflict within the White House on a range of issues has harmed America’s position on the global stage.
Earlier, the American network ‘NBC’ published the results of a public opinion poll, which showed that support for US President Joe Biden fell to its lowest level of 40 per cent, because a large majority of the population does not approve of his actions inside the country or in the field of foreign policy, especially his management of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
The former US president’s strategy towards the Middle East was not much different. Trump’s strategy emphasized that the US would not allow the Middle East to be a safe haven, a breeding ground for terrorists, or to be dominated by any power hostile to the US. This is interpreted by observers to mean that the White House’s strategies and policies are not affected by who wins the presidential race.
Yesterday, after Biden’s decision to withdraw from the US presidential elections, the Democrats breathed a sigh of relief to organize their papers in the face of the fierce Republican rival, Donald Trump. Observers see Biden’s withdrawal as a great opportunity for the Democrats to rise in popularity to confront Trump, given Biden’s old age and the increase in Donald Trump’s popularity after the recent assassination attempt.
Will the position towards Sudan change?
Regarding the future of the US administration’s policy towards the Middle East and Sudan, Professor Jalal Ziada, professor of political science at Sudanese universities, told Rhino that the US foreign policy seems almost fixed in terms of support for Israel, and the policy of the Democratic Party may be more rational and realistic towards Sudan, adding: ‘Therefore, Biden’s withdrawal may be an opportunity for the Democrats to win.’ (So, Biden’s withdrawal may be an opportunity for the Democrats to win).
For his part, Abdullah Ali, a professor of political science at Sudanese universities, told Rhino that President Joe Biden’s strategy since taking office has not offered anything new about the Middle East, as it came in its general form to confirm what was contained in the national security strategies of previous administrations, which do not care about the Middle East except for fuel and waterways.
Ali points out that the White House strategy is based on not allowing foreign or regional powers to jeopardize the freedom of navigation through the waterways in the Middle East. This means that America will not allow the implementation of the agreement to establish a military base on the Red Sea that the Sudanese army signed with Moscow, in order to obtain weapons in the war it is now leading against the RSF.
On the other hand, the White House policy focuses on working with its allies in the Middle East to curb Iran’s influence and limit its destabilization of the region through the Houthi group, which has tampered with the security of waterways on the Red Sea.
Other analysts believe that the presence of the Democrats in power is much better than the arrival of the Republicans, because the Democrats’ reliance on the value of human rights as a criterion for dealing with the outside world allows them to impose pressure on the parties to the conflict in Khartoum, while the Republicans are concerned first and foremost with America’s own interests, regardless of the price paid by the world, so they are more closed than the Democrats and do not care about the Sudanese file with the same interest as the Democrats.
Who is Biden?
Joe Biden, whose full name is Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. Born in 1942, he is originally a lawyer who started his career in 1969, was first elected to the Senate for the Democratic Party in 1972, and became the sixth youngest senator in the history of the United States of America, Joe Biden sought to run for the Democratic Party for the presidency in 1988 in 1988 and 2008, and failed both times, then Barack Obama chose him to be his running mate in the 2008 presidential race, and Biden became the first Catholic and the first person from Delaware to become Vice President of the United States, and the forty-sixth President of the United States of America.
