Trump enlisted the support among American elites because of positive expectations about his presidency

On June 4, 2024, the American business newspaper The Wall Street Journal published an article on President Biden's health and mental capacity.

The article emphasized the President's absent-mindedness and inattention and repeated the points often made by Republicans about Biden's public and closed-door speaking style and the mistakes and inaccuracies in the US leader's communication.

The White House reacted sharply to the WSJ's publication, viewing it as part of a political struggle in which the publication joined Donald Trump's side.

Some American political analysts and media linked the reason for this strategy to the figure of Rupert Murdoch, an American business tycoon and owner of the WSJ, who for decades had mostly supported the Republican Party and had sympathy for Donald Trump.