US elections, the former ambassador to the EU: “The change of candidate? It needs to be done before the Chicago convention”

Gardner: "Trump's second term is much riskier than his first"

BOLOGNA – “The risks of a Trump 2.0 mandate are greater than the risks we have already seen in Trump 1.0, for many reasons. There have been three Supreme Court rulings, which make the risk very clear. Has Putin spoken well of Trump recently? Yes, apparently they are friends and that’s not the only risk. The risk for Europe” and its industrialists “is very serious, with the shift in Chinese export flows towards Europe after the tariffs” once again aired by Trump. Thus warns Anthony Luzzatto Gardner, former US ambassador to the European Union, who has been involved in the Democrats’ fundraising campaign for a year, despite without formal roles. The occasion is the debate “The next presidential elections in the United States”, promoted today in Bologna by Johns Hopkins Sais Europe and Nomisma, on the occasion of the presentation of the new essay “Trajectories of the future: the Italian manufacturing industry in the new global disorder” .

The Democratic candidate for the US presidential election, the former ambassador continues on the sidelines of the proceedings, “is Joe Biden: I continue to give help and support to the Democratic Party, which is Biden. What it will happen tomorrow no one can predict it, but we are waiting to see in the next few weeks. If we change candidates, wemust do so well before the convention in Chicago in mid-August. There are many things at stake.” In any case, observes Gardner, “today the candidate is still Biden and we have a deputy, Kamala Harris who is always there”. During the debate, former European parliamentarian Paolo De Castro, president of the Nomisma scientific committee, adds: “We live in a moment of great difficulty even if we must understand that Joe Biden is the candidate and he is the one who won the primaries . So, it’s Joe Biden who has to decide. There would also be problems from the point of view of the financing that the campaign has raised, if the candidate were to change in the race. Let us hope – concludes De Castro – that this moment of impasse will pass, therefore: we who support Biden hope so, even if the situation is truly very confusing”.