Biden out, Trump too?

 

 “the dam is going to break and even The New York Times and The Washington Post are going to recognize that we have a huge problem on our hands. We may have a criminal family sitting in the White House that took money from foreigners in Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Romania, Russia, and China.”

— Newt Gingrich 

The minute Democrats realize “the Big Guy” can’t possibly represent the party in ’24, everything changes. To Democrats, the reason Sleepy Joe is still in the picture is that 1) Trump is the very likely GOP nominee, and 2) Biden beat him once, and can again.

So what if Democrats turn to a generation-younger candidate, one minus Biden’s criminal baggage? Will the twice-impeached, multiply-charged, 77-year-old “Orange Man,” the one who revved up the masses January 6, 2021 to overturn the ’20 election and whose controversies helped cause Republican losses in ’18, ’20, and ’22, will he still be the inevitable GOP nominee? Really?

Biden survives because of Trump. But doesn’t Trump tend to survive because he’s up against even-older Biden with obvious major flaws?

A fresh start across the board? Maybe that explains why so many Republicans are running when the outcome seems so predictable. So if it isn’t?











 

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