‘New candidate to beat Trump’

“Donald Trump is ahead, but we can still beat him if we come to the election united with a new candidate,” Leon Panetta, the former head of the Pentagon and the CIA under Obama, dictated this sentence in an interview with Republica. “There are very real concerns about the future role of the United States,” Panetta, who was Bill Clinton’s White House chief of staff, explained. Trump’s approach has generally been isolationist and averse to alliances. He has said he is prepared to abandon Ukraine, but the problem is broader. He is abandoning American leadership at a very dangerous moment for global stability.”

According to Panetta, Trump is now “in the lead, but we know that things can change very quickly in American politics. There are still about four months until the vote, and the question is whether Biden will stay or step aside. That is very real.” This possibility, under very strong pressure from the party leadership, if we come together behind a strong new ticket, led by Vice President Harris, or Governor Whitmer of Michigan, or another candidate from the Midwest, while Trump confirms his tendency to self-destruct. By his own comments, the race could still be very close.

Should Joe Biden step down? Panetta responds without much hesitation: “There is no question that the party leadership, from former President Obama to Congressmen Schumer and Jeffries, is pushing hard for him to do so. What worries me is that we are going into this election divided, and the best way to unite us is to do it with a new candidate.” So there is intense pressure from the highest echelons of the Democrats to convince the incumbent president to step down. It is a possibility he continues to publicly deny, despite dramatic stories about what he says in private.