Trump and His Entourage

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November 7, 2022

Published in Frankfurter Rundschau
(Germany) on 04 November 2022
by Andreas Schwarzkopf (link to original link to original)

Translated from by Mallory Matsumoto. Edited by Lisa Attanasio.

Former U.S. President Trump will probably run for the White House again after the midterm elections, in which the Republicans are expected to do well. That is not good news.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump will “probably” run for reelection to the White House in 2024. But before he announces his candidacy, he will wait to see the results of the midterm elections, during which the sitting president’s party has regularly lost its majority in Congress since the 1990s. This year, moreover, the extreme candidates that Trump endorses could gain seats and thus push the political spectrum farther to the right.

For U.S. President Joe Biden and the Democrats, the defeat that they expect to face in the midterms does not just mean political standstill, since Biden will only be able to govern through executive orders. Domestically, the Republicans will only continue to fuel the already heated atmosphere in the country.

Biden has more room to maneuver in foreign policy, so that in the next few years, trans-Atlantic relations, which have recently improved, will probably suffer no damage. But Germany and other EU countries should not rest on the laurels of their recent accomplishments.

Trump und sein Gefolge

Der früher US-Präsident Trump wird wohl nach dem erwarteten Erfolg der Republikaner bei den Zwischenwahlen erneut für das Weiße Haus kandidieren - was keine gute Nachricht ist.
Der ehemalige US-Präsident Donald Trump wird „wahrscheinlich“ erneut bei den Wahlen 2024 für das Weiße Haus kandidieren. Doch vor der Verkündung wird er sich die Ergebnisse der Zwischenwahl anschauen, bei der seit den 1990er Jahren regelmäßig die Partei des Präsidenten die Mehrheit im Kongress verliert. Diesmal könnten darüber hinaus die extremen Kandidatinnen und Kandidaten, die Trump unterstützt, Sitze erobern und so das politische Koordinatensystem noch weiter nach rechts verschieben.
Für US-Präsident Joe Biden und die Demokraten bedeutet die erwartete Wahlniederlage also nicht nur politischen Stillstand, da Biden lediglich mit Dekreten regieren könnte. Innenpolitisch werden die Republikaner die ohnehin aufgeheizte gesellschaftliche Stimmung noch mehr befeuern.
Außenpolitisch hat Präsident Biden einen größeren Spielraum, so dass in den kommenden zwei Jahre die verbesserten transatlantischen Beziehungen wohl keinen Schaden nehmen werden. Doch sollten sich Deutschland und die anderen EU-Staaten auf den erreichten Erfolgen nicht ausruhen.

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