Biden’s exit from US presidential race is a coup – political analyst

Member of Zimbabwe’s ruling party believes TV debate might have been planned by the establishment to expose and then remove American leader

In an exclusive interview with RT, a member of Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF party, Kudzai Mutisi, has claimed that Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the presidential race in the US was predictable, and probably orchestrated by America’s establishment.

Mutisi, a political analyst, believes that the American leader’s exit was a coup rather than a democratic decision or other process. 

“The debate with Trump was the beginning of the end. The way he performed so dismally, it actually gave the establishment some ammunition against him,” the ZANU-PF party member said. He asserted that Biden was not removed due to his age, a challenge already well known to the establishment, but rather because they deemed him no longer useful.

Mutisi suggested that the debate might have been planned to expose Biden’s comportment in order to subsequently remove him. “It is a coup because a coup is done by a few people whereas in a democratic environment, a president is removed by the people. Biden has been nominated by the people, the Democratic base voted for Biden. They actually wanted him to be their candidate this November.”

Turning to the former US President Donald Trump, Mutisi claimed that he’s “unstoppable,” pointing to the recent assassination attempt as evidence of the establishment’s desperation to stop him. “They started with the lawfare against him. It did not succeed. And then, out of desperation, they tried to take him out using the gun, and that also failed.”

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The Zimbabwean predicted that US Vice President Kamala Harris might step in as the Democratic candidate (which has since become a reality), not because she is the best choice but because no one else is willing to go against Trump at this point. “Once you lose against Trump, it will be very difficult to come back again. He’s very popular, he’s very high in the polls, and it’s such a short time to the elections, there’s not much time to win for anyone who comes now.”

He criticized Biden’s attempts to forge relations with African countries, arguing that these were for the benefit of the US rather than Africa. “[The US] promise big, they deliver nothing. They are always looking for an exploitative relationship. They’ve been obstructing Russians and Chinese from working with Africans. Yet those are the partners that Africa actually needs,” he explained. 

According to Moussa Ibrahim, Executive Secretary of the African Legacy Foundation, Kamala Harris would continue to deepen US involvement in Africa and the Middle East “in ways that preserve the dominance and hegemony of the West over the nations in the Global South.”

On Sunday, US President Joe Biden announced that he will not seek reelection in the November 5 vote. The 81-year-old faced mounting pressure from within the Democratic Party to step down following his poor performance in last month’s debate against Republican rival Donald Trump, now the party’s official nominee.