The election in the United States

The election in the United States|The primaries  

The new strategy: Get black voters to abandon Biden  

 

About 75,000 Democratic voters in the state of South Carolina have received an email in which Joe Biden is criticized for the proposal to ban menthol cigarettes, writes NBC. The proposal is particularly unpopular among black voters.  

 

Behind the email is the conservative group Building America's Future. A source familiar with the strategy says that they will now analyze how the email affects voter turnout in this weekend's primary election.  

 

The idea is that a similar strategy will be used this autumn. The group plans to spend over a million dollars trying to get Biden's core voters not to vote for him in the election. The plan is to specifically address black voters via advertisements on television, radio and on the internet as well as via e-mails. Extra focus should be on the most even states, according to the source.  

 

NBC notes that it is not the first time that the parties have tried to get voters to abandon the opponent, rather than trying to win their own voters. But it could be extra effective in this year's election because both Trump and Biden are unpopular. 

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The election in the USA The debate about Biden's age 

Two candidates talk about age – can the rift grow?  

 

Two prominent Democratic politicians have openly raised the issue of President Joe Biden's age, writes Politico. Now the age issue, which used to be taboo to even talk about, risks creating a growing party rift until the presidential election in November.  

 

"The bottom line is, he's old," Congressman-elect Tom Suozzi of New York noted in an interview with Fox 5. 

 

Party colleague Katie Porter has backed an upper age limit for candidates ahead of California's March 5 Senate election. She says that this type of discussion already exists around the Supreme Court and that it is "hypocritical" not to have it around other posts.  

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The election in the USA Border policy in the USA  

Source: Biden may make it harder for migrants to get asylum  

 

Joe Biden and his administration are considering tightening immigration laws to stem the flow of foreigners at the U.S.-Mexico border, three sources told NBC. It is partly about making it more difficult for migrants to pass the first asylum assessment, and partly about quickly deporting those who do not meet the requirements.  

 

The process for a tightening of the rules is said to last for several weeks before a decision is reached, according to the informants. Any tightening should be seen as an attempt to reduce pressure on the US's southern border, as migration has emerged as a very important issue for US voters.  

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America's abortion policy  

Alabama classifies embryos as children – could threaten IVF  

 

The Supreme Court in the US state of Alabama classifies frozen embryos as children, US media reports. In a ruling from last Friday, which was noticed by the media on Wednesday, the court considers that whoever destroys an embryo can also be held responsible for their actions.  

 

The statement from Alabama's highest judicial body once again focuses on the question of when life begins, which is an important definition even in the abortion debate.  

 

Critics believe that the court's ruling could have consequences for IVF treatments. The court writes, according to CNN, that unborn children "who are outside a biological womb when they are killed" are children. Therefore, they are protected by the state's law called "wrongful death of a minor", which means that whoever destroys an embryo may be guilty of a crime. 

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Haley takes the court's side: "To me, embryos are children"  

 

Republican challenger Nikki Haley supports the controversial decision by the Alabama Supreme Court to classify embryos as children, NBC reports.  

 

- For me, embryos are children, she says while underlining that these are very sensitive issues.  

 

So far during the campaign, Haley has tried to position herself in the middle when it comes to reproductive issues. She has called for national "consensus" on the abortion issue, rather than a ban.  

 

The Supreme Court's message is that unborn children "who are outside a biological womb when they are killed" are children. Critics believe that the ruling could have far-reaching consequences for IVF treatments because whoever destroys a frozen embryo risks being guilty of a crime.