“In the America I see, the permanent politician will finally retire. We’ll have … mandatory mental-competency tests for politicians over 75 years old.” That’s how Nikki Haley kicked off her campaign for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination on Wednesday, February 15, 2023. “Pe[...]
Posts Tagged ‘2024 Election’
February 6th, 2023 - 2:43 am § in Politics, Republicans
Should one person pick the GOP’s 2024 nominee?
It could happen. A presidential campaign today costs $1 billion, but oil and chemicals billionaire Charles Koch is so rich he could easily pay for one himself. As it is, Koch funds a vast array of conservative think tanks, policy groups, and political action. No one is more responsible for the blizz[...]
Why Pence won’t be president
Although he’s something of a Jan. 6 hero in some people’s eyes (actually, he only refused to be a coup lotter), Mike Pence is what he’s always been: A religious right conservative. Televangelist John Hagee (photo, left; profile here) is one of the most repulsive figures of the reli[...]
December 14th, 2022 - 1:07 am § in Politics, Republicans
DeSantis unveils his next stunt
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who wants to be president, “now wants to prosecute those who pushed the vaccines,” Huffington Post says. “In Florida, it is against the law to mislead, to misrepresent, particularly when you’re talking about the efficacy of a drug,” DeSantis told a gather[...]
2024: Trump’s in! What to expect
Trump launched a comeback bid on Tuesday, November 15, 2022, with his usual fact-free bombast and braggadoccio. His hour-long rant, carried live only by Fox and CNN, was filled with lies, exaggerations, and distortions (for examples, see story here). It also put people to sleep; both Fox and CNN cut[...]
Why Michael Cohen thinks Trump won’t run in 2024
Michael Cohen was Trump’s personal attorney, actually “fixer,” and went to prison for doing Trump’s dirty work. (Full disclosure: Cohen is biased; he’s not a Trump fan, and has nothing good to say about his former employer. So consider what he says with that in mind.) C[...]
October 9th, 2022 - 9:39 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Voters, not secretaries of state, elect presidents; but GOP candidates want to change that
To hear GOP candidates for secretary of state talk about elections, voters have nothing to do with them. Jim Marchant, the GOP candidate in Nevada, promised a Trump rally this weekend that if he’s elected, Trump will get Nevada’s electoral votes in 2024. It’s not that simple, of co[...]
Ron DeSantis’s hypocrisy
Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis (photo, left), who wants to be president, suspended Tampa’s twice-elected Democratic prosecutor on Thursday, August 4, 2022, “for pledging not to enforce the state’s new 15-week abortion ban and for supporting gender-affirming treatments for minorsR[...]
August 1st, 2022 - 11:45 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Do polls show GOP voters coming to their senses? Not really
It’s too early to say that. Polls show a growing number of grassroots Republicans don’t want Trump to run again in 2024, but mostly for the wrong reason: They’re afraid he’d lose. In mid-July, Forbes reported only “20% of Republicans believe Trump’s behavior on Januar[...]
Buttigieg jumps to front of New Hampshire Democratic poll
The 2024 primaries are still a long way away, and in presidential politics, two years are an eternity. But political forecasting is a popular sport in America, and given several reasons to suspect Biden won’t run again (age, unpopularity, etc.), Democrats are looking around and pundits are par[...]