Hold on tight. President Biden will announce his step down, he will do it at the end of July. And the sherpas who lead the explorations of an alternative candidacy are already on the track, who prepare the dossiers and bring together the structure, the political supporters and the business ones to launch the race. The first hypotheses are all female. There is insistent talk of the vice president, Kamala Harris. Weak, in the voting simulations that the spin doctors are already doing. Already seen for years in the White House, cold, with little success on television, she has never completely convinced her voters. And so we go back to talking regarding Michelle Obama. The former first lady has published an autobiography, in unsuspecting times, which today can be reread as a true political manifesto. She has officially denied being interested. “Good, it means she’s in the running,” deduces a political analyst at home in Washington.
But this isn’t House of Cards. The issue of changing horses is dramatically urgent. Also because 160 major Democratic donors have already cut the check for Sleeping Joe. Until they replace Biden, the Democrats will never see another dollar. Among the major donors who have announced the suspension of funding, the most well-known is Abigail Disney, Walt Disney’s granddaughter and heir to part of his fortune. She wrote to the current president’s electoral committee: her campaign “will not receive another cent from me until they replace Joe Biden.” Big American industry is watching the changeover in the race for Donald Trump’s challenger. Everyone wants to know who it will be, very few have clear ideas. Among them, one of the protagonists of the current administration: the undersecretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellen, who coincidentally is flying to Rome, unbeknownst to everyone, these days. The Yale-educated economist was deputy head of the Fed and then at the top of the American central bank for a decade, appointed by Barack Obama from whom she never left.
On Monday, she will give an eagerly awaited speech behind closed doors at the prestigious and highly confidential Aspen Institute Italia. The topic will be economic trends and macro-financial prospects. Officially. Because in reality Yellen, one of the most powerful women in the world, has acted as an ambassador for the Obama family. And she brings with her the dossier containing the name of the future Democratic candidate for the White House. The anticipation to receive her is high. The location is prestigious: the Italian one is, following all, the first bud of the Aspen outside of American territory. The highest offices of the State are part of the Aspen as permanent guests, by statute. Some very select entrepreneurs are also admitted and the annual membership fee starts at 55,000 euros. Giorgia Meloni has been informed of Yellen’s arrival, but no face-to-face meeting is, at the moment, on her agenda.
Yellen will instead most likely meet another name whose consent is essential for the American deep state: Mario Draghi. If Yellen is Obama’s best friend, for Draghi she is almost a sister. They would consult each other often. And Supermario has recently moved from Milan to his home in Umbria, an hour and a half’s drive from the Aspen Institute in Rome. A private meeting between Yellen and Draghi can only focus on the analysis of the impact that a change in the Democratic candidate would have. Kamala Harris or Michelle Obama? Some American jurist, to add to the puzzle, has reportedly made public an interpretation of the American constitutional rule on the double mandate: following several years, a candidacy for a third term might be admitted. Surprise. If Obama can run once more, it seems, Mario Draghi will be the first to know.
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2024-07-07 12:42:09
