Original title: 'women's Obama' withdrew from the U.S. election: I'm not a rich man and it's too difficult to raise money
After more than a month of difficult election, California Democratic Senator Kamala Harris announced on the 3rd local time that she would withdraw from the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
'in the past few days, I have made rational analysis from various angles. This is one of the most difficult decisions in my life.' He Jinli said in a statement, 'my campaign has no financial resources to continue at all. I'm not a billionaire and can't fund my own campaign. In the campaign stage, it has become increasingly difficult to raise funds to support our campaign. "
Unlike Obama's' female version of Obama '
He Jinli's withdrawal from the election did not surprise the outside world. Although she was once a leader in the democratic camp and choked Biden, a senior politician in the party and a fellow candidate, in a TV debate, she was even called "the best performer in the Democratic campaign" by US President trump.
He Jinli, 55, is a descendant of Jamaican and Indian immigrants and has the dual identity of African and Asian. She was Martin & middot on January 20 this year; Luther & middot; Kim memorial day announced his candidacy. Because he has multiple identities like former U.S. President Barack Obama, he is also a former lawyer and Senator of Congress, so he is called 'women's Obama'.
After Hillary Clinton ran for president on behalf of the Democratic Party in 2016, whether the United States will really usher in a female president has always been a hot topic in the 2020 election. Since the beginning of last year, in addition to he Jinli, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, female Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, and Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, Six female candidates, including Marianne Williamson, a female best-selling writer, have announced their candidacy. So far, Lu Tianna and he Jinli have announced their withdrawal from the election.
American conservative news commentator Ethan Epstein once believed that although the outside world has always compared He Jinli with Obama, they are completely different types of political candidates. In fact, they basically have nothing in common in the election, which also determines that their election will have different results. Epstein believes that during the 2007-2008 campaign, Obama had a very clear campaign philosophy: opposing the Iraq war, hoping to expand the scope of government health care and vigorously advocate environmental policy.
However, in the opinion of pushstein, the biggest problem of he Jinli is that she has never had a clear election concept. She has repeatedly stood on the core issue of "whether private companies are allowed to participate in universal health insurance"; He also changed his views on the reform of the American judicial system many times; When other candidates agreed with her, she even committed the "taboo" of the campaign and forgot to attack the competitors who agreed with her.
'what is her position? What is her campaign philosophy? Why did she run for president? Many voters don't even know until now. " Diane Feldman, a democratic pollster, said so.
Compared with Obama who attracted a large number of African American voters in the election at that time, he Jinli's support rate among African American voters has not been high. Biden, the leader of the democratic camp, has a high support rate among African Americans. " Lack of support among African American voters means that it is difficult for her to establish an overwhelming advantage. She was not popular among white voters, and African American voters couldn't agree with her & lsquo; Can replace Biden. " Federman said.
Abandoned by voters
After announcing her candidacy in January, he Jinli's election attracted a large number of young democratic progressives and centrist voters. After the strong performance of the TV debate in June, he Jinli's poll support rate once climbed to double digits. However, in recent months, her support rate and fund-raising number have fallen behind the top candidates. Recently, there has been a stagnant fund-raising problem, and even news that her former employees complain about the poor treatment of employees by the campaign team.
According to the financial report of the Federal Election Commission, he Jinli raised a total of US $9 million at the end of September, and Warren raised nearly US $26 million at that time.
Rumors about he Jinli's withdrawal from the election began to spread in November. In the past month, he Jinli's campaign team has successively closed the campaign offices in most early voting states and dismissed a large number of campaign employees. Her poll support rate also continued to decline with the amount raised.
Some political analysts believe that an important turning point of he Jinli's campaign occurred in September. In the fund-raising of that month, the total fund-raising of South Bend mayors butijig, Sanders, Warren and Biden in California exceeded that of he Jinli in the "home battle". Most of the funds raised by sanders and Warren were small amounts from the grass-roots, It is also seen that those traditional donors in California have given up he Jinli to support butijig and Biden, while progressive supporters choose to donate to Warren and sander. If he Jinli does not withdraw, she is likely to be defeated by others in California's primary election.
Democratic strategist Joel Payne said: 'the initial intention of he Jinli is that she chooses to stand in the middle of the Democratic Party and believes that she can attract both progressives and moderates. As a result, she unfortunately separated herself from a large number of supporters of both groups because everyone thought she lacked a core political concept. "