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Cas Mudde

The not-so-Super Tuesday is over. America has two clear choices ahead

a photo of an older man in a blue suit and blue tie next to a photo of a different older man in a blue suit and blue tie
‘Whatever (legitimate) issues potential Democratic voters have with Biden, let’s hope that they can get over them by 5 November.’ Composite: Reuters, AP

Not-so-Super Tuesday has made an end to two faux primaries, confirming what everyone has known for month: the presidential elections will be a repetition of those four years ago. Despite thousands of columns and hundreds of millions of campaign money, Donald Trump was unapproachable in the Republican primaries, while Joe Biden faced no real opponent and won without ever really campaigning. So, where does that leave the US?

In many ways, the upcoming elections will be the same as most of the US presidential elections this century. The race will be between two unpopular candidates, who are mostly mobilizing an “anti-vote” based on a broadly shared narrative that this could be the last election to “save America”. But the situation is even worse than four years ago, because both the electoral context and political climate have worsened.

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