00:00 Time and again this year, Americans have been clear they want fresh, newer faces to contend
00:05 in next year's presidential polls, resistance to Biden due to his age and aversion to Trump
00:11 for being completely unfit for the job.
00:13 Yet Trump and Biden are the clear frontrunners of their parties to square off next year despite
00:18 public and party misgivings.
00:21 VOA's Veronica Balderas Iglesias filed this report.
00:25 Days after the Atlanta jail booking of former President Donald Trump made headlines around
00:32 the world, his political ambitions are again under scrutiny.
00:36 Trump currently faces 91 criminal charges across four indictments.
00:41 Among his contenders for the Republican presidential nomination, former New Jersey Governor Chris
00:46 Christie, who was interviewed on ABC's This Week Show, suggested that Trump is a liability
00:52 for his party.
00:53 The majority of my competitors believe that you can have a convicted felon as our nominee
00:59 for president and that they'd support that and that he could win.
01:03 I think that's an impossibility.
01:06 Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who alongside Christie participated last week
01:11 in their party's first debate, acknowledged Trump's achievements when interviewed on NBC's
01:17 Meet the Press.
01:18 I want to build on the foundation that Trump laid.
01:20 Frankly, I will invite him as an advisor and a mentor.
01:23 I don't want to relearn the same lessons.
01:25 I want to pick up where he left off.
01:27 Trump's legal problems won't be a part of President Joe Biden's 2024 re-election campaign
01:32 strategy, the Biden campaign's co-chair, Cedric Richmond, told ABC.
01:38 What I will say about President Biden and Vice President Harris is that they have always
01:42 focused on the American people.
01:45 So they're going to continue to do their jobs of bringing down costs, raising wages, rebuilding
01:53 the middle class.
01:54 But as President Biden's age continues worrying Democratic voters, independent Senator Bernie
02:00 Sanders, who appeared on NBC, suggested turning the focus to what's at stake in the policy
02:07 arena.
02:08 Do you believe that women have a right to control their own bodies?
02:11 Well, the president has been strong on that.
02:13 Do you think that climate change is real or do you agree with the Republicans that it's
02:18 a non-issue?
02:19 Meanwhile, Trump, who has denied all wrongdoing, is betting on using his criminal probes to
02:25 advance his 2024 presidential bid.
02:29 That includes promoting his mugshot, which is being printed on all kinds of merchandise
02:34 for fundraising purposes.
02:36 Veronica Valera-Siglesias, VOA News, Washington.
