Author Topic: Elephant poaching: Bragg's Trump indictment is part of Dems' GOP 2024 trap Michael Barone  (Read 162 times)

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Trump indictment is bad law, smart politics
Michael Barone
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What do you do to win an election when your candidate is universally known and unpopular with a majority of voters? That’s a question both major parties have had to face in the last few years. Both look like they’re going to face it for some time longer.

One way is to get the other party to nominate someone who is even more unpopular. Sometimes that happens, as when Barack Obama tried to clear the field for Hillary Clinton in 2016 or when no Republican wanted to risk the brickbats of challenging Donald Trump in 2020.

Now we’re watching Democrats acquiesce to the apparent fourth presidential candidacy of 80-year-old Joe Biden. Such polling as there is shows him with well under half the votes in multicandidate primary fields.

But his closest competitors have obvious weaknesses. Kamala Harris has record low numbers for a vice president, Bernie Sanders is 81, and Pete Buttigieg has been an absentee transportation secretary in multiple crises. None has been chief executive of anything larger than Burlington, Vermont, or South Bend, Indiana.

The obvious solution for Democrats is once again to run against Donald Trump. He lost in 2020, and his post-election actions — acting in reckless disregard of, if not actively encouraging, the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, preposterously boasting that he actually won in a landslide, focusing on his own complaints and ignoring those of actual voters — haven’t made him any more popular.

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