Tuesday, August 29, 2023

The 2024 Election, Part V. Wooing the primary voters.

 


June 29, 2023

Posted today only because at this point I need to update the list of candidates.  As time has gone on, I've omitted a few

Democrats:

Joe Biden; the incumbent.  While a majority of Democrats and voters in general are disenchanted with the aged President, he will take the nomination absent something unexpected occurring.

Marianne Williamson; gadfly.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.  Kennedy is receiving attention, but his candidacy isn't likely to go anywhere.  Known for some unconventional views.

Republicans.

Donald Trump. The former President is in the lead in spite of his boatload of mounting legal problems and support for an insurrection designed to keep him illegally in office.

Nikki Haley

Vivek Ramaswamy.  Youngest candidate, oddly tacking to the right of Trump on some things.

Perry Johnson, largely unknown businessman.  Age 75.

Larry Elder, conservative African American radio host.  71 years of age, and first time candidate.

Asa Hutchinson, former Governor of Arkansas and conventional, non MAGA, Republican. Age 72.

Tim Scott, African American Senator from South Carolina.

Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida.

Chris Christie, former Governor of New Jersey. Blunt anti Trump candidate.

Mike Pence.

Doug Burgum

Francis Suarez, Mayor of Miami.

Will Hurd, Congressman from Texas.

More on some of these candidates can be read about in the last edition of this thread, when GOP candidates really started entering what is now a very crowded field.

June 29, cont.

One of those people in the "will they run?" category is Liz Cheney, who made this very interesting statement the other day:

Look, I think that the country right now faces hugely challenging and fundamentally important issues. And what we’ve done in our politics is create a situation where we’re electing idiots. And so, I don’t look at it through the lens of, is this what I should do or what I shouldn’t do. I look at it through the lens of, how do we elect serious people? And I think electing serious people can’t be partisan.

You know, because of the situation that we’re in, where we have a major-party candidate who’s trying to unravel our democracy — and I don’t say that lightly — we have to think about, all right, what kinds of alliances are necessary to defeat him, and those are the alliances we’ve got to build across party lines.

We'll see if I'm correct, but I take that as an indicator that; 1) she will run, and 2) there's a good chance she'll be on the "No Labels" ticket.

Regarding the GOP front-runner, a new book reveals that while he was President, Donald Trump made comments in front of White House employees about his daughter Ivanka Trump’s breasts, backside, and what it might be like to have sex with her. This prompted White House staffer John Kelly to rebuke him and remind him that she was his daughter.

These are reports in a book, of course, and my guess is that Trump will deny them. But if they are true that's deeply weird. Once again, it raises the question of how those looking upon Trump as some sort of crusader for (Southern) Cultural Christianity can hold that view.

July 9, 2023

The Iowa GOP caucus will be held on January 15, 2024.  The date, just set by the GOP, means that the primary starts in just six months, and five months before the General Election.

July 31, 2023

The Trump campaign is expected to report this week that it spent $40M in campaign donations for the candidate's legal fees.

August 3, 2023

The Post Insurrection. Part V. Wyoming politicians react to the Trump Indictment and pour another heartly glass of Trump flvored Kool Aid for the voters.



August 5, 2023

GOP Presidential candidate, Chris Christie, visited Kyiv on Friday and met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

August 8, 2023

Mike Pence has qualified for the GOP debates.  The seven other qualifies are Donald Felonius Balonius Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, businessperson Vivek Ramawamy, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum.9 hours ago.

August 17, 2023

A Casper businessman, Reid Rasner, has announced a campaign against John Barrasso for the GOP contender for Barrasso's occupied Senate seat.

Rasner is running to the right of Barrasso and is associated with Wyoming's Freedom Caucus.

August 18, 2023

My gosh, Trump's utterances are getting increasingly weird.


Can people seriously admire somebody who writes and speaks in this fashion? 

Isn't it obvious to everyone that there's something seriously wrong with this man?

We'd also note:

Thick cut baloney.

August 19, 2023

Donald Trump has announced that rather than face his opponents in next week's debate, and probably most particularly Chris Christie who he is ill prepared to face, he's going to be interviewed by stooge Tucker Carlson.

Trump was of course fired from the Oval Office and Carlson from Fox News, so it serves their mutual self-promotion interest and is a safer venue than a debate.

In part of the embarrassing ongoing GOP saga in Wyoming, the Central Committee censured Rep. Sam Western of Big Horn County and asked him to resign.  The Censure was over Western and Johnson County Commissioner Bill Novotny had been involved in sending a political advertisement accusing four individuals of “trying to tear our state apart".  

One of the prime mover in the censure was a out of state far right candidate who has failed in prior elections.

August 24, 2023

Nationally:

What Happened At The First 2024 Republican Primary Debate

I didn't watch it, but from the sounds of things, the GOP nationally is a lost cause, no longer standing for anything other than Donald J. Trump.

Chances are that, assuming no major course corrections, the 2024 election will be regarded as the end of the GOP. It'll struggle through as a whimper to 2028, but by then it will be a rump party and some new conservative party will have emerged to pick up the non populist elements.

More locally, the Natrona County GOP attempts to call out an anonymous critic:

Natrona County GOP calls out anonymous ‘WyoRINO’ creator

I hope they're successful.

August 29, 2023

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez has dropped out of the GOP Presidential contest.

Last Edition:

The 2024 Election, Part IV. The Difficult Questions With No Answers Offered.


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