How Germans View This 2024 US Election Process

 I'll offer eight opinions:

1.  CNN-International isn't offered any longer on the satellite delivery system.  I won't say it's drastically decreased opinion-flow.....but it's mostly limited Germans to public TV (ARD/ZDF), newspapers, the BBC, France-24, and Sky-News.  

2.  If you measured off mentions of Joe Biden for the past 2.5 years....it's drastically dropped off the charts since the fall of 2021.  You rarely see speeches of President Biden, and if his comments are covered....it's less than 20 seconds of chatter mentioned.  They know in some way that he's got memory issues.  

3.  Mention of VP Harris?  People know that she's the VP.....but beyond that....since January (2023)...there's rarely any mention of her on any German news piece.  'Invisible' might be a term I'd use.

4.  The 'age-thing'.  I'd say since late 2021....when German public forums have come up and US politics get discussed....the 'age-thing' is brought up a fair bit (affecting not only Biden, Trump, Pelosi, but five or six additional folks).  Germans criticize this idea and openly suggest that both US parties have a major problem in keeping people beyond their years. 

5.  I'd say that roughly 20-percent of Germans have no opinion and don't really care who it is.....preferring journalists and politicians center their efforts on fixing German problems.  Remaining 80-percent?  Mostly moderate-to-extreme anti-Trump.  DeSantis?  Some comments in 2023 indicates that he's run Florida into the ground and made it a 'shit-hole'.  Where they got this opinion?  Mostly from US journalists who told them of the shit-hole status.

(I should note that SF/Portland/Seattle/NY City shit-hole status is rarely mentioned)

6.  Getting back to a Clinton or Obama stage....where unicorns grazed openly, heat-waves never occurred, and the Kardashian fashion trend was the most important topic of the day?  More or less....that's the German wish....a return to 'normal'.

7.  Twitter figuring into a doom election scenario?  Yes....that Elon guy can only wreck a wonderful process that has existed for over 200 years.

8.  Finally, there is this odd worry that populism will occur, and trigger some serious German woes....people wanting similar change....that they can't have.