The American president goes to a public university in this southwestern state to praise his policy in favor of access to higher education.
He recently took the decision to partially erase the debts contracted by millions of Americans to go to university, a move strongly criticized by the Republican opposition, which considers it too expensive.
Joe Biden “will also mention the disastrous consequences for the American middle class if the Republicans go through with their plan to deprive millions of people of debt relief, while handing over $3.0 trillion to the pharmaceutical giants. , to multinationals and to the ultra-rich”, promised the White House, summarizing in its own way the economic projects of the conservatives.
Enough to confirm the two main messages of the Democrats before the “midterms” of November 8, which could cost them their majority in Congress: Joe Biden is both the president of the middle class, and the last rampart of democracy.
On Wednesday evening, the 79-year-old Democrat, whose term of office is suspended in this ballot renewing the entire House of Representatives and more than a third of the Senate, delivered a dark speech on this last point.
He felt that by denying the result of the previous presidential election, and by threatening to challenge the results of the “midterms”, the most radical Republicans, rallied to former President Donald Trump, risked sinking the first world power into chaos”.
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“We can no longer take democracy for granted,” he warned.
Joe Biden also strives to present himself, in this final stretch of the campaign, as a president concerned with the working classes, facing Republicans whom he depicts as a party of money and social hardness.
But the message is struggling to get through, because galloping inflation, sensitive to supermarket checkouts and gas pumps, is canceling out the effects of strong growth and the flourishing job market for American households.
The stakes are huge for the Democrats, who have lost points with the popular electorate, and who are suffering in the face of the campaign led by the Republicans around very concrete issues: high prices and crime.
Donald Trump, omnipresent in the Republican campaign, for his part travels Thursday to Iowa, a rural and predominantly white state, which has long been considered a “swing state”, likely to lean either to the left or to the right.
But who seems, over the years, to swing more clearly on the side of the conservatives.
Conversely, New Mexico, where Joe Biden is going, has so far acted more as a bastion for the Democrats. But the right has recently scored points there, particularly in its campaign for the post of governor, centered around security issues.
