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Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher<\/p>\n
It is certain that Donald Trump will be the candidate of the Republican Party, but it is also certain that the establishment, known as the American \u201cdeep state,\u201d will not allow him to be the next president of the USA, according to Dr. Sr\u0111a Trifkovi\u0107, foreign policy editor of the American magazine Chronicles.<\/p>\n
Former American President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0won the Republican internal party elections in\u00a0Iowa, while Florida Governor Ron DeSantis won second place. More than 60% of voters turned out for the elections, and Trump received\u00a050.6% of the votes, while Desantis won 21.4% of the votes.\u00a0Behind them was the former US ambassador to the United Nations and avid war hawk Nikki Haley.<\/p>\n
The intra-party election in Iowa\u00a0officially\u00a0started\u00a0the 2024 US presidential election race, and Trump is clearly popular with the voters but is hated by the top of the party.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe popularity of numerous challengers in the form of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis or former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley cannot be compared to the popularity that Trump enjoys among pro-Republican voters and party members on the ground,\u201d said Trifkovi\u0107.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis, of course, does not mean that the Republican establishment, that is, the leadership of the Republican Party in the Senate and the House of Representatives of Congress, as well as in the apparatus of the top of the party, is enthusiastic about Trump – on the contrary,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n
The editor highlighted, as an example, how the late Senator John McCain belonged to the wing of the Republican Party that had the slogan \u2013 \u2018Never Trump.\u2019\u00a0McCain\u2019s legacy is still present today, but it is evident that among registered Republicans, Trump\u2019s popularity remains indisputable.<\/p>\n
Nonetheless, this will not exempt Trump from facing immense opposition, in his run to become president again, from the Democratic Party, the FBI, the military-industrial-complex, and the media. According to Trifkovi\u0107, these are different branches of the \u201cdeep state,\u201d and they are conspiring to prevent Trump from running in key states, with \u201can experiment\u201d already made in Colorado after the Supreme Court of that state, which Democrats control, disqualified Trump from the race for president.<\/p>\n
\u201c[The court] used an obscure amendment to the Constitution of 1866 that was expressly intended to prevent Confederate officials from running for public office after the North\u2019s victory in the American Civil War,\u201d the editor said, adding that holding Trump accountable for the attack on the Capitol in 2021 was \u201cabsurd, but in the politicised world of the American judiciary, anything is possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
It cannot be ruled out that since Trump is currently accused of 92 misdemeanours, the former president\u2019s opponents will time some of the court decisions right before the election so that he is disqualified at the last minute by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania or Georgia, which Democrats control. This would mean that he cannot appear on the ballots in those states.<\/p>\n
According to\u00a0a poll<\/a>\u00a0from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the University of Georgia, Trump (45%) leads President Joe Biden (37%) in the swing state of Georgia. Biden narrowly won Georgia in 2020, the first time a Democratic presidential candidate won the state since 1992, but it is almost certain that a Republican will win in this year\u2019s election. For this reason, the \u201cdeep state\u201d is attempting to disqualify Trump from such key states.<\/p>\n If Trump cannot be prevented from becoming president again by disqualifying him from key states, Trifkovi\u0107 said there is a \u201cPlan B,\u201d which is to repeat \u201cthe theft from November 2020, when we witnessed the bizarre spectacle that in the key cities of the key countries, the counting stopped around three in the morning, and then in six in the morning continued with additional tens of thousands of votes for Biden that were mysteriously created from a pool of postal votes.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a blatant theft that is statistically absolutely inexplicable, but you can\u2019t say that publicly in America today because the very claim that the election was stolen is criminalised and demonised,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n It is telling that more than 70% of Republicans would be satisfied with Trump as a nominee in comparison to the 57% of Democrats who would feel the same about Biden being the Democratic Party\u2019s choice. Biden is barely the Democrat\u2019s first choice, which makes it easy to see why he is not Americans overall first choice as president.<\/p>\n Every recent poll finds that most respondents would vote for Trump in a match-up with Biden. As Trump would quickly wind down the war in Ukraine and slowly de-escalate tensions with Moscow, the \u201cdeep state\u201d is desperate to ensure he does not come to power.<\/p>\n In conclusion, Trifkovi\u0107 said: \u201cThe paranoia with which the establishment deals with those who doubt the legitimacy of the election already indicates the extent to which they were dubious.\u201d<\/p>\n Source:\u00a0<\/span>InfoBrics<\/a><\/p>\n