Posted on 07/20/2024 10:06:12 AM PDT by edwinland
Republican national convention described as ‘the happiest place on Earth’ as Democrats fight and Biden gets Covid
They browsed Trump bobbleheads, Trump mugs (“Make coffee great again!”) and Trump T-shirts, including a new line celebrating his defiance of an assassin’s bullet. They lined up at food stalls for beef sticks, gourmet popcorn, Puerto Rican roasted chicken and the local speciality, fried cheese curds. Beer was flowing, the sun was shining and Republicans were experiencing something they had not felt for a long time: joy.
This year’s Republican national convention in Milwaukee had the swagger of a party that believes it is on a glide path to the White House. Entirely in thrall to Donald Trump, it was more united than it has been in decades. The former US president might offer a notoriously dark and divisive vision but his supporters exuded optimism in what one journalist dubbed “the happiest place on Earth”
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Self-isolating at his Delaware beach house, Biden now faces the biggest decision of his political career. But the walls are closing in on the embattled Democrat.
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Talk about pictures not matching their story.
Hilarious. I didn't even notice that.
Has there ever been any action such as we’re seeing now to force a sitting president to not run for reelection?
We know that President Johnson in 1968 was facing challenges in his own party, but he declined to run for reelection after the New Hampshire primary, but before convention delegates had been selected in most States.
In this case the convention delegates have been selected and Biden has far more than enough pledged delegates to him ,to ensure his renomination. And it’s against this backdrop of that Democrats are trying to force him out.
2024 is a wild political year isn’t it?
“Republicans coalesce as Democrats flail...”
Like a mackeral on a pier!😎
Just wait till the DNC. It's going to be a riot!
Figuratively and literally.
They should have had their convention somewhere else, like Alcatraz.
There was quite a bit of Republican optimism in 2020, too. This is not the time to get complacent.
No kidding! Trump looks miserable and two boneheads look tickled pink
The Guardian is far-left and has always been far-left.
he gave her responsibility for the border
With the understanding that she was to do nothing
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