President Joe Biden
After Super Tuesday‘s results this week in both the Republican and Democratic presidential primaries, it is clear that Donald Trump and Joe Biden will have a 2024 rematch of their 2020 presidential election. Trump and Biden each won almost all of their Super Tuesday contests, with Trump losing only Vermont to Nikki Haley and Biden losing just American Samoa to someone named Jason Palmer. In the delegate count, Trump and Biden again are very well on their way to securing their respective party’s presidential nominations, with Trump thus far gaining 1,004 of the necessary 1,215 Republican delegates, and Biden getting 1,516 out of the required 1,968 delegates on the Democratic side. Haley has announced that she is abandoning her presidential campaign, but she refused to endorse Trump at this time.
Accordingly, as the nomination process now shifts to an early general election campaign between Trump and Biden, a key question is going to be: what is the 2024 presidential election about? The answer to that question may well determine who becomes our next president. For example, Trump and the Republicans will likely keep talking about trans bathroom use, and caravans of “migrants” (an apparent change from “immigrants” or “illegals”), because they either have the wrong policies or no policies at all on truly important issues such as the economy, climate change, healthcare, gun violence, etc. President Biden and the Democrats, in addition to running on their strong record of economic recovery and growth, have made “freedom” a centerpiece of their 2024 campaign thus far, which includes freedom from Republican government intrusion into women’s health decisions (i.e., abortion), freedom to vote, preserving our democracy and elections against Republican dictatorship, etc.
As if these policy differences weren’t enough, Biden and the Democrats have some other things to point do in this election cycle:
— Donald Trump was responsible for, fomented, and failed to stop the deadly January 6, 2021 insurrection against the U.S. Capitol that was designed to stop Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election, all as part of a plot to overturn the results of the election (which Biden won by a safe margin) and stay in power through a coup d’etat.
–Trump has been indicted on 91 criminal charges, has been found liable for defaming E. Jean Carroll after sexually abusing her, was found guilty of business fraud to the tune of $454 million, and faces more trials, including a criminal trial for paying porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 in hush money, possibly from campaign funds, to keep quiet about their affair.
–Trump is exhibiting more and more signs of serious cognitive decline. In recent weeks, for example, he has repeatedly confused President Biden with President Barack Obama; confused Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi, gotten his own wife’s name wrong, and forgotten the name of one of his children.
One thing is for certain: in the 2024 presidential elections, voters will have a very clear choice.
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