Alex Soros, chairman of Open Society Foundations, throughout a panel session on the closing day of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Friday,Jan 19,2024 The yearly Davos event of politicians, magnates and stars ranges from January 15 to19 Photographer: Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg through Getty Images
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“In Davos, Donald Trump is already the president,” Open Society Foundations Chairman Alex Soros informed a panel at the World Economic Forum on Friday.
“That’s a good thing, because the Davos consensus is always wrong,” he stated.
The possibility of Trump, who is the front-runner to acquire the Republican election in the upcoming election, winning a 2nd term in the White House has actually been a hot subject at the event of political and magnate in Switzerland today.
Trump deals with 91 felony counts across many criminal cases connecting to his efforts to reverse his 2020 election defeat, mishandling of categorized files and hush cash payments to a pornography star. Yet numerous U.S. service executives still think he will beat President Joe Biden, ought to the 2 face off in the 2024 race, as expected.
“Donald Trump owns the Republican Party. We’re in something I like to call the Trump cycle, because I think even if — and I believe, if the institutions hold, when — he loses this election, he’ll also be the Republican candidate in 2028 and maybe even 2032 as well,” Soros stated, drawing a ripple of laughter from participants.
“What’s the way out for him? He either winds up in prison or he winds up in power, he’s not going off on some beach somewhere and retiring.”
Most ballot in current months has actually put Trump ahead of Biden throughout crucial swing states, though numbers released recently by Redfield & & Wilton Strategies, in collaboration with The Telegraph, revealed those leads narrowing in Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
Soros firmly insisted the incumbent president still has a “pretty good map,” and backed Biden to keep Arizona and Georgia, where he declared the specific brand name of “extremism” promoted by Trump and his allies is thought about “really toxic” to numerous citizens.
“But, actually, if you want to look at one state which will really test where the election is, it’s Wisconsin, because if Joe Biden’s able to win Wisconsin, it should mean that he’s won Pennsylvania and Michigan,” included Soros, child of billionaire benefactor and Open Society Foundations creator George Soros.
“Biden actually has a particular advantage in a polarized electoral environment which is that he’s not polarizing.”
