Including Trump.
Posted on 01/03/2022 2:17:29 AM PST by Kaslin
With the turn of the calendar to 2022, Republicans are not only looking to the 2022 midterm elections but to the prospect of Donald Trump running in 2024. Trump is hugely popular with the party’s base and that popularity freezes the plans of other possible candidates for the 2024 nomination. Trump’s hold on that nomination is brittle, however, because of his age. On election day in 2024 Donald Trump will be 78 years old. That is one year older than Ronald Reagan’s age when he left office in 1988.
Looking at the 2024 contest from the other side of the race, there is no reason to expect that Joe Biden will get the nomination. He has been in office for less than one year, and only diehard Democrats believe that he is not suffering from incapacitating mental deficits. The only question is which foreign adversary will take advantage of his weakness: China, Russia or Iran. So the most likely scenario is for Biden’s resignation in 2022 or early 2023.
Trump may be popular now, but once the voters have been shocked by the disaster of one septuagenarian president why would they roll the dice on a 78-year-old Donald Trump holding office to age 82? It’s a very bad bet, especially when there are younger, capable Republicans available. Ron DeSantis is at the top of the list of strong candidates for the presidency, but by 2023 we should have other governors and several senators eager to reach for the nomination.
I believe the above makes a strong case that it would be unwise for Donald Trump to run for the presidency in 2024. That presents the big question: how to persuade Trump to play the role of “kingmaker” in late 2022 and step back from his own candidacy?
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If he wants it, we’ll make sure it happens.
Yet the author says NOTHING about Biden and his age, let alone his obvious increasing dementia. This whole article is nothing but an attempt to pooh-pooh his nomination support from his base and others so widely dissatisfied with Biden and the Democrats. Just more trash journalism.
That’s a good way to look at it and where I’m at. If he runs I’ll vote for him....but will feel bad for him with the mess the democrats have made of all his great work before he’ll have to clean up again.
Rather than running again I wish he’d offer to chair a Convention of States.
You obviously didn’t read the article. But what’s new?
“Yet the author says NOTHING about Biden and his age, let alone his obvious increasing dementia.”
He did. Clearly.
Including Trump.
No. If Trump runs again, it’s going to be all about him. He is legitimately angry over the 2020 elections, he’s legitimately angry over the Democrats’ Jan 6 theater, and he’s legitimately angry about a lot of things…which he won’t forget and which will not provide a way forward. And people are not going to support that or vote for him.
If he’d come out now and start talking about how we were going to end this tyrannical medical fascist state the Dems have created, how we were going to rebuild our economy without the crazy green “climate change” policies that the Dems are using to cripple it, how we’re going to control China, and how we’re going to restore individual enterprise, family life and our health system after this disaster (which he didn’t do enough to resist, since he and Pence were the ones who made Fauci de-facto president of the US), then we could talk.
But he won’t, and if he runs again, it’s going to be just a rehashing of old battles, no program for the future…and no appeal whatsoever to voters.
Trump’s age isn’t really the problem at the moment. But I agree that just based on popular perception, it would be better to have a younger candidate. As the author points out, the public’s current experience of the soon-to-be octogenarian set hasn’t been positive - all of our worst nightmares in government, from Fauci to Biden to Pelosi and more, are in that age group.
We definitely need a new face and Trump could be influential in choosing that person and I hope that’s where he puts his energies.
And Malone’s a longtime defense contractor in the bioweapons game, offering a limited hangout. E.g., he’s still implying that the jabs are a failed experiment rather than a planned takedown. Still, he has moved on from his initial “noble lie” justification.
He should take over as the legally elected President on Thursday. Hopefully, that’s what his press conference will divulge.
I don’t consider him a current resident insider participating in a limited hangout for deep state damage control.
I consider him a deep insider who has been 100% red-pilled and has defected from the dark side to the light.
IMHO.
He may be. And for our purposes going only as far as he has is probably all that is useful right now, given how many people haven’t got that far yet.
But he clearly knows far more on a far more nefarious level than he’s letting on. Nondisclosures would limit some of that, but surely not all.
To assume the Trump of 2018 is the Trump of 2024 is a serious error.
Biden cannot and will not run. Biden was forced by the party to develop an end to the 20+ candidate primary debacle.
If there is no Democrat candidate with tons of charisma, they have a problem
I agree with what you say here. A couple other things. I don’t think anyone Trumps age should be able to run for office, at least President or Senate. We need to have some sort of age limit. We also need to weaken the power the executive office presently has. They are not a king but as time goes we treat them more and more that way. At very least we need to put a halt to all the executive orders.
We can only hope for a kerry level type from the dems. He was the dream to run against.
biden has looked like death warmed over for quite awhile now, I’m surprised he can still walk. As far as I’m concerned 2024 is way way too far to even try and predict, especially on the dem side.
2024 is a long ways off. I remember the huge lead Jeb Bush had years out from 2016 for example. And Trump seems to be losing more support, than gaining it, to me.
YES!!!
Trump is the only Republican who can win a national election.
I cringe at the idea of voting for a 78 year old man for president, but, if he is the nominee, I will vote for him.
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