The mandate of the US is overwhelmingly in favour of the Democrats and it is proof of a “repudiation of President Donald Trump,” Ravi Agrawal, the editor-in-chief of the Foreign Policy magazine told NDTV today. And this, he said, is an opportunity for India to stand its ground.
“Countries and companies around the world — they see when a leader is weakening, they are going to adapt how they approach the Trump administration,” Ravi Agrawal said.
“They will see this vote as an indication that you may have a Democrat in the White House in 2029, and therefore they are better off not kowtowing to Trump too much, not flattering him, but resisting him, and making the beginnings of outreach to people in the opposition.
Asked how President Trump is taking it, Agrawal said he is clearly hurting and is on the defensive. he tried to tell voters to vote as if he was the candidate, now he is “trying to distance himself saying he was not on the ballot” While ahead of the election. But what would also change is the reaction of the world, he said. “Countries and companies around the world — they see when a leader is weakening, they are going to adapt how they approach the Trump administration,” Agrawal said. All of that weakens Trump much more than Congress possibly could,” he said.
