US presidential candidate Donald Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky may hold telephone talks on Friday, July 19. Several leading global media outlets have reported this.
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The news comes amid developments surrounding a possible replacement for Democratic Party candidate Joseph Biden in the presidential race, as well as the Republican Party convention held in Milwaukee.
Biden is being actively pushed to withdraw from the Democratic camp, while Trump, after the failed assassination attempt on himself, is making increasingly aggressive statements one after another and feels as if he has sat in the presidential chair for the second time.
“Rakurs” analyzes what is currently happening in the United States and how the presidential race is connected with Ukraine.
Biden may withdraw as early as this weekend
President Joe Biden has agreed to step down as the Democratic nominee. Biden is ending his reelection bid. The Democratic presidential nominee will be determined next month.
Political commentator Mark Halperin said this on the Newsmax television channel, citing numerous sources from among the Democrats.
It could happen as early as this weekend. Biden has a speech prepared. He will continue as president — that is his intention. My sources say he will not endorse Vice President Harris as his successor either. My sources are hoping Biden will endorse an open process in which Vice President Harris and several other candidates can select another Democratic presidential nominee at the convention in Chicago.
Possible candidates being discussed include Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, California Governor Gavin Newsom, possibly Michigan and Pennsylvania Governors Gretchen Whitmire and Josh Shapiro, and Vice President Harris.
On the first round of voting, regular delegates will be allowed to vote under an agreement discussed by the president and top Democratic officials.
If there is no winner in the first vote, then the so-called superdelegates will start the next vote.
The decision was made, I am told, suddenly, due to pressure at the highest levels from Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama and other influential Democrats, as well as the decisions of many of Biden’s top aides.
They all told Biden that he had no way forward, that he couldn’t win this election.
That’s why he will resign this weekend, the columnist said.
The Washington Post wrote that former US President Barack Obama called on current American leader Joe Biden to consider leaving the presidential race.
According to the publication, Obama believes that the current occupant of the White House is “further and further away from victory.”
The first black US president has spoken about this to his entourage in recent days.
The Washington Post notes that the politician is concerned that the ratings of the current head of the White House continue to fall.
Meanwhile, Biden made another mistake.
In an interview with BET, he could not remember the name of Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin and called him a “black man.”
Trump Camp Rejoices
On the night of July 19, Donald Trump officially announced that he was running for the US presidential election as a Republican candidate.
The politician thanked his supporters, fellow party members and Secret Service agents for their support after the assassination attempt in Pennsylvania and told the participants of the party convention about that event in detail.
The fourth and final day of the Republican National Convention has begun in Milwaukee.
To the unbridled joy of those gathered in the West, the main star of the four-day Republican show had already arrived, as always, with a bandaged ear.
Trump supporters at the convention also performed similar manipulations on their own ears, placing American flags on their ears.
Recall that on the first day, the delegates nominated Trump as the party’s presidential candidate and Senator James David Vance as the vice-presidential candidate. The latter also officially accepted the nomination.
Ukraine in the center of American attention
CNN reports, citing sources, that President Zelensky and former US President Trump are planning to hold a telephone conversation on July 19. This will be their first conversation since Trump left the White House.
In his speech at the Republican National Convention, Trump once again promised to influence Russia’s war in Ukraine, which the Biden administration allegedly cannot handle.
I will end every international crisis created by this administration, including the terrible war with Russia and Ukraine that would never have happened if I were president, he said.
During his speech at the Republican National Convention, Donald Trump said that the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan encouraged the Russians to invade Ukraine, and that he could stop the war with one phone call.
Under President Bush, Russia invaded Georgia. Under President Obama, Russia took Crimea. Under the current administration, Russia is seeking to take all of Ukraine. Under President Trump, Russia has taken nothing.
Look at the attack on Israel. Look at what’s happening to Ukraine. Cities have been bombed. How can people live like that? Buildings are being razed to the ground. It all started with the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, the worst humiliation in our country’s history. Emboldened by that disaster, Russia invaded Ukraine, they saw this group of people who were incompetent,” Trump said, once again criticizing his predecessors’ administrations.
Meanwhile, Volodymyr Zelensky spoke about the possible election of a Republican candidate in the United States.
Working with the Donald Trump administration will be difficult, but we are not afraid of it, he told the BBC.
The president also commented on the statements of Trump’s vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance, who had previously stated that he “doesn’t care at all what’s going on in Ukraine.”
Maybe he really doesn’t understand what’s going on in Ukraine, so we have to work with the United States. It will be hard work, but we’re not afraid of it,” Zelensky said.
The Democratic Party convention led by Joe Biden will take place in August. The presidential election itself is scheduled for November 5.
Source: Racurs
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