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To: Spunky
You're missing the calculus of such a move.

A basic rule of politics is that no president has ever been defeated during a war. Trump is correct in warning about the Ukraine mess because it will inevitably lead to full scale war between NATO and Russia unless it is settled.

The Neocons would like to get a war going before the election. The way it would work would be for Biden to pardon everyone in his family and then resign. Harris would become president and would stop all campaigning because she is too busy being a wartime president. "Don't switch horses in the middle of the stream," got FDR elected in 1940. Harris would push fir the same sentiment to get her elected.

571 posted on 09/09/2024 12:48:45 PM PDT by Publius
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To: Publius

“....got FDR elected in 1940.”

It isn’t 1940 so we will see if you are correct or if I am.


576 posted on 09/09/2024 2:40:07 PM PDT by Spunky (Computers do crazy things.)
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To: Publius; Spunky

“A basic rule of politics is that no president has ever been defeated during a war”

The Ukraine war isn’t popular, at least with half of the people seeing it as a method of funneling money to a corrupt regime.

It’s more like Vietnam, which really didn’t test your premise. None of the presidents during that time ran for reelection, I believe?


615 posted on 09/10/2024 12:05:28 AM PDT by CottonBall (Trump is not a politician or statesmn-he is a founding father, separated frm the others by 250 years)
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