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Politics, 2024 Election
Did the Wrong Candidate Drop Out?
Republicans are now stuck with a demented, divisive, felon as their candidate
The Biden vigil is over. As many of us expected, Joe Biden is no longer a candidate for reelection to the presidency.
The Trump campaign, in celebration since the President’s poor performance in the June 27 presidential debate, and buoyed by Trump’s survival of an assassination attempt on July 13, had hoped Biden would remain in the race. Trump liked running against a man who a majority of America believed was too old to run.
Although 78 years old, Trump appeared younger and more coherent than Biden. Until the assassination attempt, everyone knew what Trump was saying. Nobody paid much attention to his lengthy attacks on Biden, the judicial system, RINOs, and immigrants. Trump’s campaign was more grounded in images of Trump hugging flags than anything else.
At the Republican convention, Trump promised to unify the country. That promise lasted about 15 minutes before Trump’s demented dribble returned in his acceptance speech. Trump further descended into insanity at his rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on July 20. The standard Trump “red meat” speech heard dozens of times at his rallies returned.
