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<\/a><\/p>\nIf\u00a0you’re a world leader, what are you thinking of the US Election?<\/p>\n
This is an extract from a GZERO Media Newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/h5>\nAs American political news junkies get ready for what is expected to be a\u00a0very long<\/em>\u00a0US election night, around the world a select group of world leaders will also be refreshing the\u00a0FiveThirtyEight<\/a>\u00a0homepage with their own interests in mind, scrutinizing incoming results from the electoral college battleground states that will determine whether President Donald Trump is reelected or Joe Biden wins the White House. Let’s put you in their shoes.<\/p>\nIf you’re\u00a0Vladimir Putin<\/strong>, this year feels different. You’re not as involved as you were in 2016, and you don’t hate Joe Biden nearly as much as you\u00a0despise Hillary Clinton<\/a>. But still, you’ll be keeping an eye on\u00a0Pennsylvania<\/strong>, which will likely be the last swing state to count all its votes, because at the end of the day\u00a0you don’t want either candidate to win outright<\/a>. You crave confusion, chaos, and court battles that’ll further erode trust in the US election system.<\/p>\nOn the other hand, if you’re\u00a0Xi Jinping<\/strong>, you don’t want civil unrest to delay the result. You like your five-year plans, and you want to know ASAP which US leader you’ll be working with for the next four years. Although it won’t make much of a difference these days now that Democrats and Republicans\u00a0agree<\/a>\u00a0that you’re bad for America, you’ve spent weeks analyzing demographic shifts in the Atlanta suburbs to figure out whether the GOP will hold\u00a0Georgia<\/strong>. If it does and Trump gets reelected, you know he’ll be tough(er) on China. But he won’t bring many European and Asian friends to the fight, unlike Biden who\u00a0plans<\/a>\u00a0to get everybody who has a beef with you on the same page.<\/p>\nIf you’re\u00a0Ali Khamenei<\/strong>, supreme leader of Iran, in Great Satan’s election you’re rooting for Biden \u2014 the devil you’ve known\u00a0longer<\/em>, the one you know you can make a new (nuclear) deal with. That’s why you’ll be tracking turnout in\u00a0Arizona<\/strong>‘s Maricopa County, the exact spot you think might put Biden over the top. Then you’ll have your own election to worry about next year (a\u00a0hardliner victory<\/a>\u00a0will make that deal a bit harder to pull off, though).<\/p>\nDeal-making is also on your mind if you’re\u00a0Boris Johnson<\/strong>. As the UK’s prime minister, you’ll be watching \u2014 under lockdown in Downing Steet \u2014 early returns from Macomb County, where unexpected mass turnout by Trump voters could keep\u00a0Michigan<\/strong>\u00a0red. That may improve your odds of signing a\u00a0trade agreement<\/a>\u00a0with the US in the near term, which Biden\u00a0might not entertain<\/a>\u00a0unless you back down on a\u00a0no-deal Brexit<\/a>. On the flip side, do you really want four more years of Trump’s diplomatic\u00a0“capriciousness”<\/a>?<\/p>\nNow, imagine you’re\u00a0Narendra Modi<\/strong>\u00a0obsessing over voter turnout in\u00a0North Carolina<\/strong>‘s “research triangle” in Chapel Hill-Durham-Raleigh, where many Indian Americans have landed top-notch IT jobs. Although almost three quarters of them will be\u00a0voting for Biden<\/a>, you’re torn between the candidate who will give\u00a0more H1-B visas<\/a>\u00a0to India’s best and brightest, and a kindred spirit in your dislike of\u00a0China<\/a>\u00a0and Muslims.<\/p>\nIf you’re\u00a0Jair Bolsonaro<\/strong>, you’ll be looking for the latest data from\u00a0Florida<\/strong>‘s famously competitive Miami-Dade County, where you hope your fellow Latinos will come out in droves for Trump. After all you’re one of only a\u00a0handful<\/a>\u00a0of world leaders who have endorsed your buddy \u2014 and you’ve got a lot riding on his reelection. You’re wary of Biden, who won’t let you get away with\u00a0destroying the Amazon rainforest<\/a>, nor take kindly to your\u00a0anti-LGBTQ<\/a>\u00a0tirades.<\/p>\nFinally, picture yourself as chain-smoking\u00a0Kim Jong-un<\/strong>, bespectacled eyes glued to your ultrawide flatscreen TV in your sumptuous Pyongyang palace, hoping suburban women in\u00a0Wisconsin<\/strong>\u00a0won’t abandon Trump like most polls say they will. You need someone to talk to, and\u00a0don’t expect<\/a>\u00a0Biden to respond to your letters, let alone\u00a0meet with you<\/a>\u00a0like Trump (although Joe probably won’t even try to talk you into giving up North Korea’s\u00a0nukes<\/a>).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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If you’re\u00a0Vladimir Putin<\/strong>, this year feels different. You’re not as involved as you were in 2016, and you don’t hate Joe Biden nearly as much as you\u00a0despise Hillary Clinton<\/a>. But still, you’ll be keeping an eye on\u00a0Pennsylvania<\/strong>, which will likely be the last swing state to count all its votes, because at the end of the day\u00a0you don’t want either candidate to win outright<\/a>. You crave confusion, chaos, and court battles that’ll further erode trust in the US election system.<\/p>\n On the other hand, if you’re\u00a0Xi Jinping<\/strong>, you don’t want civil unrest to delay the result. You like your five-year plans, and you want to know ASAP which US leader you’ll be working with for the next four years. Although it won’t make much of a difference these days now that Democrats and Republicans\u00a0agree<\/a>\u00a0that you’re bad for America, you’ve spent weeks analyzing demographic shifts in the Atlanta suburbs to figure out whether the GOP will hold\u00a0Georgia<\/strong>. If it does and Trump gets reelected, you know he’ll be tough(er) on China. But he won’t bring many European and Asian friends to the fight, unlike Biden who\u00a0plans<\/a>\u00a0to get everybody who has a beef with you on the same page.<\/p>\n If you’re\u00a0Ali Khamenei<\/strong>, supreme leader of Iran, in Great Satan’s election you’re rooting for Biden \u2014 the devil you’ve known\u00a0longer<\/em>, the one you know you can make a new (nuclear) deal with. That’s why you’ll be tracking turnout in\u00a0Arizona<\/strong>‘s Maricopa County, the exact spot you think might put Biden over the top. Then you’ll have your own election to worry about next year (a\u00a0hardliner victory<\/a>\u00a0will make that deal a bit harder to pull off, though).<\/p>\n Deal-making is also on your mind if you’re\u00a0Boris Johnson<\/strong>. As the UK’s prime minister, you’ll be watching \u2014 under lockdown in Downing Steet \u2014 early returns from Macomb County, where unexpected mass turnout by Trump voters could keep\u00a0Michigan<\/strong>\u00a0red. That may improve your odds of signing a\u00a0trade agreement<\/a>\u00a0with the US in the near term, which Biden\u00a0might not entertain<\/a>\u00a0unless you back down on a\u00a0no-deal Brexit<\/a>. On the flip side, do you really want four more years of Trump’s diplomatic\u00a0“capriciousness”<\/a>?<\/p>\n Now, imagine you’re\u00a0Narendra Modi<\/strong>\u00a0obsessing over voter turnout in\u00a0North Carolina<\/strong>‘s “research triangle” in Chapel Hill-Durham-Raleigh, where many Indian Americans have landed top-notch IT jobs. Although almost three quarters of them will be\u00a0voting for Biden<\/a>, you’re torn between the candidate who will give\u00a0more H1-B visas<\/a>\u00a0to India’s best and brightest, and a kindred spirit in your dislike of\u00a0China<\/a>\u00a0and Muslims.<\/p>\n If you’re\u00a0Jair Bolsonaro<\/strong>, you’ll be looking for the latest data from\u00a0Florida<\/strong>‘s famously competitive Miami-Dade County, where you hope your fellow Latinos will come out in droves for Trump. After all you’re one of only a\u00a0handful<\/a>\u00a0of world leaders who have endorsed your buddy \u2014 and you’ve got a lot riding on his reelection. You’re wary of Biden, who won’t let you get away with\u00a0destroying the Amazon rainforest<\/a>, nor take kindly to your\u00a0anti-LGBTQ<\/a>\u00a0tirades.<\/p>\n Finally, picture yourself as chain-smoking\u00a0Kim Jong-un<\/strong>, bespectacled eyes glued to your ultrawide flatscreen TV in your sumptuous Pyongyang palace, hoping suburban women in\u00a0Wisconsin<\/strong>\u00a0won’t abandon Trump like most polls say they will. You need someone to talk to, and\u00a0don’t expect<\/a>\u00a0Biden to respond to your letters, let alone\u00a0meet with you<\/a>\u00a0like Trump (although Joe probably won’t even try to talk you into giving up North Korea’s\u00a0nukes<\/a>).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" These are the issues on voters’ minds when deciding for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":28125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1069,43],"tags":[99,1385,55,2519,3630,4229,2908],"class_list":["post-28071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-management-leadership","tag-ceo","tag-ceo-northam","tag-donald-trump","tag-gzero-media","tag-joe-biden","tag-us-elections","tag-world-leaders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28071"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28134,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28071\/revisions\/28134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}