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Jim and Greg begin today’s podcast with a tribute to former New York Sen. James Buckley. The brother of National Review Founder William F. Buckley, Jr., Jim Buckley served the nation with honor in World War II and then in all three branches of the federal government, including chief judge of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. He was 100 years old.
Then they serve up their usual martinis, starting with a new Monmouth Poll showing New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez has just a 35 percent approval rating heading into an election year – thanks in part to yet another federal investigation examining allegations of corruption. They also wince at all the apparent mistakes made by local officials before and during the horrific wildfires that devastated Lahaina. Finally, they’re curious why Trump is urging all the other Republican presidential candidates to drop out if he has such a huge lead.
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There’s at least one pretty obvious reason for other Republican candidates to drop out. Even if Trump is greatly in the lead now, months – more than a year – of yapping from also-rans about “Trump isn’t fit to be president!” etc doesn’t help beat Biden.
Maybe Trump’s internal polls show that his supports is actually soft and that half of current Trump supporters who would like to support someone else who could actually beat Biden.
But keep in mind, among other things, the possibility that if Trump is not the nominee, Biden won’t be either.
Although it’s also possible that, for one reason or another, Biden won’t be it regardless. But it seems pretty likely that if he’s still at least technically alive, they’ll prop up Biden again if it’s against Trump. And if people actually legitimately vote for Biden in that situation, I won’t try to save them from themselves. They need to suffer for it. It seems to be the only way they might ever learn better.
Or we could nominate a winner who could beat Biden.
Real Clear Politics average has Biden +0.4 vs. Trump. It shows you how much the general electorate hates Trump if he is losing to the worst president since James Buchanan. I’d much rather have a candidate who could actually win than go down in flames AGAIN against Biden.
Did you miss that point? There’s a pretty good case being made that Biden won’t be the nominee unless Trump is.
So trying to find someone else who could theoretically beat Biden is irrelevant. Because anyone but Trump probably won’t have to beat Biden. They would have to beat Newsom, or Mayor Pete, or whatever. Which may seem even easier, somehow, but we should never underestimate the ability of people to vote stupidly even if they’re not voting against Trump.
To shift the subject, I think Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter were worse Presidents than Joe Biden.
Wilson yes, Carter no – Carter was not corrupt and while bad, he inherited inflation. Biden et el pushed modern monetary theory to create inflation when it was flat for years.