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The Bloomberg website said that attention within the United States is now focused on the 2024 presidential elections, and mentioned the possibility of a government shutdown and other looming unrest, especially with regard to the judiciary, where the former president faces… Donald Trump 4 separate indictments, and the Supreme Court could rule on his eligibility to run.
The American website chose 5 political issues that it believes have received less attention, although they could affect the course of the American nation, and formulated them in the form of questions in the column written by Jonathan Bernstein.
Government “shutdown”?
The writer said that the Republican threat to “Government shutdown“It has never disappeared, and just because the House of Representatives backed down and allowed temporary spending to be extended twice does not mean it will do so again when the temporary bills expire, next January and February.
Note that the first spending reform was the one that produced a revolt against House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, and the second also sparked a great deal of criticism of the current Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson.
It is not clear how Johnson will deal with the upcoming deadlines, although his public position is that there will be no short-term extensions, at a time when the battle in the House of Representatives is taking place over the fiscal year 2024, and even if its problem is resolved, the problem of the fiscal year 2025 will begin, which begins 5 weeks ago. From election day.
Pressure on a Supreme Court judge
The writer believes that Judge Sotomayor has reached the age of 70, at a time when President Joe Biden’s chances of re-election will be 50/50 at best, and Republicans are seeking to obtain a majority in the Senate, which will make more Democrats urge the judge to step down for fear that if She remains in office until her death and will be replaced by a Republican.
It is not uncommon for justices from both parties to retire, but at the Supreme Court level Democrats have not been as strict about it as Republicans, and if Sotomayor retires at the end of her Supreme Court term in June, the confirmation of her replacement will be a major story this summer as the general election approaches.
Where is the Republican Party headed?
During the spring and summer, election observers will focus on key GOP primaries in contested Senate seats and even safe seats, because they know that over the past decade Republicans have lost seats in the Senate and elsewhere by running bad candidates.
Of course, the same goes for the Democratic Party, where the “progressive” faction faces the mainstream liberal team in many primaries, but since the progressives have been more pragmatic in office than the extreme Republicans, it wouldn’t be a big deal if they won a few seats.
What is happening in the background of the poll?
Although federal elections are always important, there are thousands of other elections scheduled to be held in the United States in 2024, and they are important, both for their direct effects and in terms of how they determine the agenda of political parties, and school board elections have received greater attention recently with attempts to The aggressiveness by Republicans to change policy at this level.
Disrupting elections in 2024?
The good news – as the writer says – is that the elections in 2022 and 2023 went very smoothly, but the bad news is that Donald Trump may return to the ballot in 2024, and the effects have already begun to be seen, as there were acts of violence on the sidelines of his last campaign, culminating in events. “January 6” on the Capitol Building.
Although former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was ordered to pay nearly $150 million to two election workers he falsely accused of fraud against Trump, it is difficult to know whether the punishment will deter others from spreading lies, so threats against election workers could hinder… Fair administration of elections.
