First, an announcement of the bleeding apparent: It’s fully bonkers that Joe Biden has introduced he’s working once more.
No person of sound thoughts, which due to this fact excludes President Biden, thinks it makes any sense for this more and more gradual, senile, doddering, dopey incumbent to even attempt to win re-election on condition that he can barely string a coherent sentence collectively.
He says he needs to “end the job,” however I very a lot doubt he may even bear in mind what job he’s began. And surprising polls present even most Democrats don’t need him working once more.
I don’t say any of this with glee.
Biden’s basically a superb, respectable man who has overcome a collection of devastating private tragedies to serve his nation admirably as a politician for greater than 50 years.
Nevertheless it’s turn into more and more painful to observe his embarrassing stumbles and gaffes.
America deserves and urgently wants higher than this in such troublesome instances, and which means a pacesetter bursting with younger power, drive and objective.
But when there’s one factor much more bonkers than Biden working once more, it’s absolutely Donald Trump working in opposition to him once more because the Republican nominee.
As Albert Einstein is reputed to have stated: “The definition of madness is doing the identical factor time and again and anticipating completely different outcomes.”
There was a time when Trump was a political King Kong, swatting away all rivals throughout his one-man wrecking-ball rampage to the White Home in 2016.
However that was seven lengthy years in the past.
Now he’s turn into a political suicide bomber whose solely energy appears to be blowing up his personal celebration’s probabilities of profitable something.
Trump has turn into his personal worst nightmare: a loser.
We noticed his reverse Midas contact in 2018, in 2020, within the 2021 Georgia Senate runoffs, and once more in 2022.
But nonetheless the GOP inexplicably lets him maintain his vote-losing vise on the celebration, and if it continues to take action, it is going to lose once more in 2024.
Actually, as issues stand, the ONLY approach I envision the Republicans shedding subsequent yr to decrepit Joe Biden is that if Trump is their nominee.
Oh, I do know, I do know — Trump’s approach forward within the GOP polls, which exhibits how massively fashionable he stays …
He’s an unstoppable power, so everybody else within the nominee race ought to simply surrender …
The Stormy Daniels indictment solely made him stronger … blah blah blah.
However truthfully, all of that is delusional nonsense, as chilly, arduous polling information present.
A brand new WPA Intelligence report based mostly on seven current nationwide fashionable vote polls exhibits that Biden would beat Trump by a mean of three.1%.
And within the six doubtless key battleground states — Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — Trump trails Biden by between 1% and 4%.
If that sample holds to November 2024, Biden would hammer Trump 319-219 within the Electoral Faculty.
None of this could shock anybody.
Why do you assume Biden’s announcement that he was working once more is principally an assault advert on “MAGA” Trump?
Comatose Joe is determined to face his previous enemy once more, partly as a result of Trump’s practically as previous as he’s, so age gained’t be such a obtrusive issue, however primarily as a result of he is aware of he can beat him.
Nonetheless, swap Trump out for his closest competitor for the Republican nomination — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — and it’s a really completely different story.
The identical WPA report reveals that DeSantis would beat Biden within the fashionable vote by 1.2% and is main him in 5 of the six battleground states (they’re tied in Wisconsin).
And that is all earlier than DeSantis has even declared himself a candidate!
You possibly can inform how a lot Trump fears DeSantis by the way in which he’s been going after him so aggressively, from (pathetically) mocking the way in which he allegedly eats chocolate pudding together with his fingers — DeSantis denied the cost once I interviewed him final month — to the absurd and demonstrably false declare that he’s ruined Florida, which begs the query: If it’s so unhealthy, Donald, why have you ever gone to stay there?!
After all, the true motive Trump fears him is as a result of DeSantis is a winner.
He was the stand-out victor in in any other case disappointing midterm outcomes for the Republicans, turning a meager 33,000-vote majority in 2018 into over 1.5 million final November.
And he did it by being Trumpian in coverage however non-Trumpian in model.
DeSantis prefers order to chaos, calmness to hysteria, focus to distraction, and though he’ll battle ferociously with anybody, he has respect for the behavioral expectations of excessive workplace.
He doesn’t go for the fixed vile private abuse and social media bitching that Trump loves, however which turns off many citizens, together with — crucially — independents.
“I simply need to get scores on the board,” DeSantis instructed me a number of instances.
And proper now, he’s probably the most profitable conservative politician in the US.
He additionally occurs to be 36 years youthful than Biden, and 31 years youthful than Trump.
That’s an enormous hole when age and bodily health for the job is a transparent consider voters’ calculations: 68% of Individuals assume Biden’s “too previous for one more time period” and 48% of Democrats agree.
WPA founder Chris Wilson concluded the report: “Nominating Donald Trump ensures Joe Biden a second time period and a catastrophe for Republicans.”
The alarm bells couldn’t be louder for the GOP, nor the answer extra apparent.
However are they listening?
