The Era of rivalry, Biden vs. Trump and their respective parties

"We will protect the Second Amendment and our right to keep and bear arms," Glenn Youngkin, the Republican governor of Virginia.

Three Virginia football players killed; ex-player in custody
Nov 14, 2022 — Police have an ex-Virginia football player in custody after a shooting Sunday night that left three University of Virginia football players dead and two students wounded.

The Tuesday before Thanksgiving. a man went shopping in Chesapeake, Virginia. He purchased a semi-automatic pistol. Later that day he killed six people.

No doubt Governor Youngkin had a fine Thanksgiving dinner two days later.

 

More good news ... maybe.

CNN reports, "Most of 2022 has been pretty dismal for investors, and Monday was no exception: The Dow fell about 500 points, or 1.5%, Monday.

"Still, the stock market remains in the midst of one heck of a fourth-quarter rally. The Dow enjoyed its best month in nearly a half-century in October and it’s up nearly another 3% in November. The-chip index is down only about 7% for 2022 — and just 8% below its all-time high.

"It would be a stunning comeback if the Dow reclaims all its lost ground and finishes the year in positive territory. As recently as mid-October the Dow was in bear-market territory for 2022, down more than 21%.

"What’s happened? Top industrial stocks in the Dow such as Boeing (BA), Caterpillar (CAT) and Honeywell (HON) have surged. So have shares of retail/consumer giants Walgreens (WBA), Home Depot (HD) and Nike (NKE), as well as leading financials Goldman Sachs (GS) and JPMorgan Chase (JPM).

"The S&P 500 and Nasdaq are still pretty deep in the red for 2022, off 17% and almost 30% respectively. Both indexes were down more than 1.5% Monday. But even those indexes have rebounded sharply from their year-to-date lows in recent weeks.

"There are a few factors at play. First, there’s a growing sense that the Federal Reserve might be done with the most significant portion of its massive rate hikes. Inflation seems to be peaking.

"And there are hopes that the US economy will either experience a so-called soft landing or just a mild recession. If that were to happen, consumer spending may not fall off a cliff. Neither would corporate profits. That would be good for stocks."

 

Led by the biggest liar of them all, the Republican leader and a candidate for the Presidency, Donald Trump, Republicans have Turned prolific lying into a political tactic.

Why? Because the educationally-challenged rural base of the Republican Party believes whatever is said. That is particularly true of their savior, former President Donald Trump.

To prove a point, there is Kevin McCarthy, the Republican minority leader in the House and Speaker of the House hopeful.

ABC reports, "House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, the likely next House speaker, defended former President Donald Trump on Tuesday, a week after Trump dined at his Mar-a-Lago resort with white nationalist Nick Fuentes and rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, who has made antisemitic remarks.

"I don't think anybody should be spending any time with Nick Fuentes," McCarthy told ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Mary Bruce after meeting with President Joe Biden and other congressional leaders."

Then came the expected lie.

"He has no place in this Republican Party. I think President Trump came out four times and condemned him and didn't know who he was," McCarthy said.

No, he has not! There is no evidence Trump condemned Fuentes.

McCarthy said that because it was convenient. He needs Trump to get the speakership. When something is convenient for Republicans, they lie.

 

Fortunately, that is not true of all Republicans. There are still some honest ones left.

ABC reports, "Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday went further than McCarthy, condemning Trump's meeting with Fuentes, opening his weekly press conference by rejecting not only "antisemitism" and "white supremacy" but saying Trump's association with the ideologies could keep him from winning a second term in the White House.

"There is no room in the Republican Party for antisemitism or white supremacy," McConnell said, flanked by Republican Senate leadership. "And anyone meeting with people advocating that point of view, in my judgment, are highly unlikely to ever be elected president of the United States."

McCarthy is a legislative ally of Trump's while McConnell has broken with the former president a number of times, including criticizing him over the Jan. 6 insurrection. The GOP leaders' comments came after a number of other high-profile Republicans condemned what Trump has insisted was an impromptu meal."

There is hope yet for the country. It rests with the Republican Party and its willingness to shed its right-wing extremists who are members of our Congress.

Men like McCarthy, who will lie to protect a charlatan.

 

Then there are Republicans who are dumb enough to be brutally honest, a fatal flaw if one is a politician.

CNN reports, "Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker, facing renewed and growing questions about his residency in the final week of the runoff campaign, described himself during a campaign speech as living in Texas and said he decided to run for Georgia’s Senate seat while at his Texas “home.”

"Georgia Democrats have called for an investigation by state officials into Walker’s residency after CNN reported last week that Walker was getting a tax break in Texas intended for a primary residence, possibly running afoul of Texas tax law and some rules for establishing Georgia residency for voting and running for office.

“I live in Texas,” Walker said in January of this year, when speaking to University of Georgia College Republicans. Walker was criticizing Democrats for not visiting the border when he made the comments. “I went down to the border off and on sometimes,” he said.

"Earlier in the speech, Walker said he decided to run for Georgia’s Senate seat while at his Texas home after seeing the country divided."

Good Lord!

Walker has been endorsed by Donald Trump, the leader of the Republican Party.

 

The Post reports, "The full House voted for legislation aimed at blocking a national rail strike that could deal a blow to the economy. A strike could occur as early as Dec. 9 after some unions rejected a contract deal brokered by the White House. President Biden asked Congress to put the force of law behind that agreement, which would raise wages but provide no paid sick days. The House passed a separate bill that would give workers seven sick days. Both bills now move to the Senate. The first is expected to pass. The fate of the second is unclear [due largely to Republican opposition].

As a consequence, the stock market went on a tear. The Dow was up 737 to 34,590, the Nasdaq 484 to 11468, and the S&P 122 to 4080.

 

The good news just keeps on coming.

ABC reports, "Gas prices nationwide have plunged to their lowest level since February as demand has dropped from peak summer travel season and the price of crude oil has fallen.

"The national average price for a gallon of gas, which stands at $3.47, has fallen more than 30% since it reached a peak of $5.01 in mid-June, according to data AAA provided to ABC News.

"Over the last month alone, the price for a gallon of gas has fallen nearly 8%.

"In California, the state with the highest average price, a gallon of gas costs $4.90, though that price has fallen more than 11% over the past month. In Texas, the state with the lowest average gas price, a gallon costs $2.84, AAA data showed."

More good news about the economy as ABC continues its report.

"Thursday's report from the Commerce Department showed that prices rose 6% in October from a year earlier. That was the smallest increase since November 2021 and was down from a 6.3% year-over-year rise in September. Excluding volatile food and energy prices, so-called core inflation over the previous 12 months was 5%, less than the 5.2% in September.

"On a month-to-month basis, prices rose 0.3% from September to October. For core prices, the increase was 0.2%.

"The report also showed that consumers spent more in October, even after adjusting for inflation, a sign of their continued willingness to keep spending in the face of high prices. Spending increased 0.8% from September to October, or 0.5% after accounting for price increases."

The Biden economy is on fire, full employment, job growth, robust spending, and now an easing of inflation combined with lower gas prices. What's not to like?

 

Putin is willing to talk to our President ... as long as he can keep what he stole from Ukraine.

Reuters reports, "President Vladimir Putin is open to talks on a possible settlement to the conflict in Ukraine and believes in a diplomatic solution, the Kremlin said on Friday after Joe Biden suggested he was prepared to speak to the Russian leader.

"Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov struck a dovish tone when asked about Biden's remarks, saying that Putin remained open to negotiations but that Russia would not pull out of Ukraine.

"The president of the Russian Federation has always been, is and remains open to negotiations in order to ensure our interests," Peskov told reporters.

"Russia has claimed about a fifth of Ukraine.

"Peskov said that the refusal of the United States to recognize "the new territories" as Russian was hindering a search for any potential compromise."

"This significantly complicates the search for mutual ground for discussions," Peskov said.

Russia will remain the pariah among nations, and the Russian people will continue to pay a heavy price while Putin remains comfortable in his palace.

 

Even when they occasionally win, Republicans are still losers.

CNN reports, "House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and his critics are gearing up for a potential floor fight over the speakership in January, raising the possibility of a messy intraparty showdown that could bring uncertainty and chaos just as Republicans prepare to enter their new majority.

"Part of McCarthy’s pitch to his critics has been that if they don’t unify, then Democrats could theoretically band together and peel off a few Republicans to elect the next speaker on the floor."

McCarthy never was very bright. He often says incredibly stupid things like that.

CNN continued, "McCarthy insists he will have the 218 votes needed to secure the speakership. Conservative hardliners seeking to plot McCarthy’s ouster say otherwise.

"And what will happen if he can’t get 218 votes? No one knows."

“You can’t beat somebody with nobody, and there’s nobody else running,” said Rep. Dusty Johnson, a South Dakota Republican who supports McCarthy for speaker. “Even if there was another announced candidate, that person would not be better positioned to get 218 than Kevin.”

“There’s quality candidates who represent the conservative center of the Republican conference who are privately acknowledging that once it becomes clear it’s not going to Kevin McCarthy, they are interested in becoming speaker,” said Rep. Bob Good, a Virginia Republican who’s one of the handful of conservative hardliners publicly saying they are “hard no” votes against McCarthy.

"If McCarthy loses more than four GOP votes on January 3, he is expected to fall under the 218 votes he would need to claim the speakership. Then the House would keep voting until someone wins a majority of support from the members in attendance who are choosing a specific candidate and not voting “present,” CNN added.

 

It just keeps on getting better and better.

ABC reports, "The nation’s employers kept hiring briskly in November despite high inflation — a sign of resilience in the face of the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate hikes.

Note: Thursday's report from the Commerce Department showed that prices rose 6% in October from a year earlier. That was the smallest increase since November 2021 and was down from a 6.3% year-over-year rise in September. Gas prices nationwide have plunged to their lowest level since February.

ABC continued, "The economy added 263,000 jobs, while the unemployment rate stayed 3.7%, still near a 53-year low, the Labor Department said Friday.

"All year, as inflation has surged and the Fed has imposed ever-higher borrowing rates, America’s labor market has defied skeptics, adding hundreds of thousands of jobs, month after month.

"With not enough people available to fill jobs, businesses are having to offer higher pay to attract and keep workers. In November, average hourly pay jumped 5.1% compared with a year ago, a robust increase that is welcome news for workers but one that makes the Fed’s efforts to curb inflation potentially more difficult. On a month-to-month basis, wages jumped 0.6% in November, breaking a streak of smaller gains that had suggested that pay growth might be cooling."

 

There is little wonder as to why the forum's Republicans remain silent about what the Republican Party is doing.

The [Republican] Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday [4/21/2020] reaffirmed its support for the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election with the goal of putting Donald Trump in the Oval Office. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/...rms-russia-aimed-to-help-trump-in-2016-198171

Soon after his dinner with a white nationalist and an antisemite, the lone Republican candidate for the Presidency in 2024 called for the termination of the U.S. Constitution.

Trump again demanded that the 2020 election be overturned or rerun, for the first time explicitly calling to set aside the supreme law of the land.

“A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” he wrote in a post on Saturday on his social network, Truth Social.

Jesse Wegman writes for the Times, "There is no question that Donald Trump is ineligible under the 14th Amendment, Section 3. Given the amendment’s broad language, under which the disqualification extends not only to those who have “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” but also to those who have “given aid or comfort” to those who have done so, the case against Mr. Trump is particularly clear."

"A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of the Constitution,” Donald Trump on Saturday.

“The Fake News is actually trying to convince the American People that I said I wanted to ‘terminate’ the Constitution. This is simply more DISINFORMATION & LIES, just like RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, and all of their other HOAXES & SCAMS,” Trump wrote on Monday.

There is definitely something wrong with the former President. He is hoping the educationally-challenged, uninformed rural voter that makes up the Republican base will believe him.

Obviously, the forum's Republicans do not want to talk about this.

 

Republicans lost in the courts again.

CNN reports, "The Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up a case brought against Dominion Voting Systems and Facebook after the 2020 election by a group of voters who claimed the companies illegally “influenced or interfered with” the contest.

"Lower courts had previously rejected the case, ruling that the eight voters lacked the procedural threshold – known as standing – needed to bring the suit against parties including the Center for Tech and Civic Life, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan."

“The court’s refusal to take up this case is no surprise; the lower courts threw it out because the plaintiffs didn’t have standing, and, even if they did, their claims are frivolous,” said Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at the University of Texas School of Law.

“The fact that no justice even asked Dominion or the other defendants to respond to the petition says everything that needs to be said about how seriously they took this appeal – which is to say, not at all,” Vladeck added.

 

The Ukrainians are hitting deep inside Russia and close to Moscow.

I wonder what B.S. Putin is telling the Russian people now.

CNN reports, "Moscow’s accusation that Ukrainian drones struck two airbases deep inside Russia has once again raised the febrile question of escalation nine months into the war.

"The strikes are an extraordinary breach of Russia’s assumptions that it can protect its deep interior, from which safe harbors its strategic bombers have caused carnage across Ukraine with relative impunity.

"These are airbases very far inside Russia, and whatever the truth of the strikes – whether they represent a new long-distance drone capability Ukraine has advertised, or there’s another explanation – this is just not something that was meant to happen when Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his “10-day invasion” in February. Week by week, there are yet more signs that Moscow’s military machine cannot perform as advertised.

"On Tuesday, Ukraine struck again. Another drone strike hit a Russian airfield in Kursk, nearer to the Ukrainian border.

"Ukraine has neither confirmed nor denied responsibility for the blasts, in keeping with Kyiv’s policy of official silence around attacks inside Russia or in Russian-occupied Crimea."

 

Democratic Senator Warnock's victory in Georgia has far-reaching implications, beginning with how Republicans feel about the loss.

CNN reports, "GOP senators were noticeably upset about their 2022 problems in the aftermath of their loss in the Georgia Senate runoff, calling for better candidates and contending that former President Donald Trump caused a problem on the trail.

"Here's how some Republicans are reacting after last night.

"Senate GOP Whip John Thune said Trump’s presence on the campaign trail created a contrast when they party wanted to keep the race focused on President Joe Biden and his policies.

“It all starts with quality candidates – there's no substitute for that," Thune said.

"Asked if Trump was a problem for their party, Thune indicated he was," CNN.

"The Dems were in many cases able to turn it into a choice election because of Trump’s presence out there — so was he a factor? I don't think there's any question about that,” he said.

"Thune added that candidates shouldn’t have campaigned on the bogus notion the election was stolen.

“A lot of the candidates who had problems in these elections were running on the 2020 election being stolen, and I don't think independent voters were having it,” he said.

"Sen. Lindsey Graham told CNN that Trump has to prove he can win if he’s to clinch the nomination for 2024."

Note: That is a tall order. Counting the elections in Georgia, the latest involving his hand-picked candidate, Walker, Trump has lost the last five elections.

"He's still very popular in the party. People appreciate his presidency. They appreciate his fighting spirit," Graham said.

I am not at all sure which planet Graham thinks he is on. Maybe he is getting too old for this job.

 

CNN reports, "Winning the 51st seat, thanks to Warnock’s victory Tuesday, comes with important benefits for the Democrats running the Senate and for President Joe Biden’s administration.

"The party will now enter 2023 with a true Senate majority – one that won’t require the power-sharing agreement that has been in place over the last two years in an evenly divided chamber. That outright majority means that Democrats will have the majority on committees, allowing them to advance Biden’s nominees more easily.

"Democratic leaders, meanwhile, face a reduced risk that a single senator (Manchin) can hold its priorities hostage, since the party can now afford to lose a vote.

"Trump tried to use the 2022 midterms to pack congressional majorities and statehouses with allies who owed their offices to Trump’s endorsement ahead of his third run for the White House. Instead, he backed a series of flawed, controversial candidates who lost races the GOP expected to win. Walker on Tuesday night joined a list that includes Blake Masters in Arizona and Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania, as well as gubernatorial losers such as Kari Lake in Arizona, Tim Michels in Wisconsin, Tudor Dixon in Michigan and Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania."

 

This is what happens to a man who believes he is above the law and can do whatever pleases him regardless of the consequences.

Two weeks after Donald Trump dined at Mar-a-Lago with white nationalist Nick Fuentes and the antisemite rapper, Kanye West, he had a really bad week.

CNN reports, "His family business was convicted Tuesday of criminal tax fraud. On the same day, his hand-picked candidate lost a winnable Senate race in a red state. The House January 6 committee has decided to make criminal referrals to the Justice Department – possibly of him or his close associates. And his call to terminate the Constitution has once again backed Republicans into a corner.

"No Republican presidential candidate had lost Georgia since 1992. But with Trump up for reelection, Democrats won the presidency in 2020 and both of the state’s Senate seats in 2021 runoffs. Then, this year, they won a Senate seat again, defeating a candidate pushed into the race by Trump.

"So many premature political obituaries have been written for Trump that it would be foolish to write him off as he embarks on his third consecutive White House bid."

How to understand Trump? That is easy. He is a sociopath who simply doesn't care, and he could not care less for the Republican Party. He blames the GOP for his reelection loss. In his mind, the loss certainly was not his fault.

The only thing he cares about is being the center of attention, the more notoriety, the better.

He doesn't want to be President again.

Too many rules. Trump detests rules.

 

The Republican base, largely educationally-challenged rural voters, mostly farmers, farmhands, shopkeepers, and small town folk, are in the process of destroying their own party with their infatuation with Donald Trump.

CNN reports, "Donald Trump is facing a flurry of criticism on Capitol Hill, with Republican fury growing over their failure to take back the Senate and GOP leaders are at odds over their strategy of the former president still maintaining a dominant hold on the party.

"The GOP reckoning comes in the wake of the party leaving another critical Senate seat on the table – Georgia – and seeing Democrats expand their majority to 51-49.

"Hours after Trump’s hand-picked candidate, Herschel Walker, failed to pick up a Democratic seat, the blame game began in earnest – in large part directed at the former president. Many argued that the party establishment must take a heavier hand in the 2024 election cycle and root out unelectable Republicans even if they’re backed by Trump. Others said the GOP needs to embrace early voting and wholly reject Trump’s demagoguery of mail-in voting, something that helped power Democratic victories.

"And some top Republicans said the party’s refusal to reject Trump as their standard bearer – combined with the 2020 election denialism that is central to his platform – ultimately did them in and will cost them again in future cycles."

Note: It is being suggested that rural voters should find out what is happening in their world, not limiting their view of the news to simply The Farm Report.

 

Krysten Sinema has left the Democratic Party.

The Times reports, "Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona announced on Friday that she would leave the Democratic Party and become an independent, unsettling the party divide anew just days after Democrats secured an expanded majority in the Senate.

“I have joined the growing numbers of Arizonans who reject party politics by declaring my independence from the broken partisan system in Washington,” she wrote in an opinion column published in The Arizona Republic.

"Still the move by the first-term senator, who was facing a likely Democratic re-election challenge in 2024. The Democrats have long had to contend with her unpredictability and diversions from the party line. The bigger practical effect was likely to be on Ms. Sinema’s political standing in Arizona, where she would have had difficulty prevailing in a Democratic primary.

"Ms. Sinema would keep her committee positions through Democrats, meaning the party would still hold a one-seat edge on the panels next year, giving them new flexibility over nominations and legislation.

"Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, noted that Ms. Sinema has strongly backed major Biden administration initiatives such as the infrastructure package."

Conclusion: Not much will change, but Sinema will have a better chance of being reelected in 2024.

 

Russia wants the U.S. to free a murderer held in Germany for Paul Whelan.

CNN reports, "Russia refused to release Paul Whelan alongside Brittney Griner unless a former colonel from Russia’s domestic spy organization currently in German custody was also released as part of any prisoner swap, US officials told CNN, even as the US offered up the names of several other Russian prisoners in US custody that they would be willing to trade.

"The US was unable to deliver on the request for the ex-colonel, Vadim Krasikov, because he is serving out a life sentence for murder in Germany.

"US officials made quiet inquiries to the Germans about whether they might be willing to include Krasikov in the trade, a senior German government source told CNN earlier this year. But ultimately, the US was not able to secure Krasikov’s release. The German government was not willing to seriously consider including Krasikov –who assassinated a Georgian citizen in broad daylight in Berlin in 2019 – in a potential trade.

"The US made several other offers to the Russians to try to get them to agree to include Whelan in the swap," but to no avail.

 

A few days ago I wrote, "Thursday's report from the Commerce Department showed that prices rose 6% in October from a year earlier. That was the smallest increase since November 2021 and was down from a 6.3% year-over-year rise in September. Gas prices nationwide have plunged to their lowest level since February.

"The economy added 263,000 jobs, while the unemployment rate stayed 3.7%, still near a 53-year low, the Labor Department said Friday.

"The Biden economy is on fire, full employment, job growth, robust spending, and now an easing of inflation combined with lower gas prices. What's not to like?"

CNN reports, "Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is striking a cautiously optimistic tone about 2023, predicting a major inflation cooldown and stressing that a recession isn’t required to get prices back under control.

“I believe by the end of next year you will see much lower inflation, if there’s not an unanticipated shock,” Yellen told CBS’s “60 Minutes” in an interview that aired on Sunday.

"Yellen cited plunging gas prices — AAA said Monday the national average is down by 52 cents per gallon in the past month — tumbling shipping costs and shortening delivery lags."

Finally, an econ expert is predicting good news about our economy. Most experts are predicting gloom and doom, and that a recession is just around the corner.

Particularly Republican experts.

 

Question: Besides investigating our President and his son, Hunter, is the Republican-controlled House going to try to solve any of our nation's problems?

 

Are the rural voters who have been backing Trump for the past six years finally giving it up? It is way past time.

The conservative New York Post reports, "GOP backing for former President Donald Trump’s third consecutive White House bid has fallen apart over the past several months, with most Republican voters saying they’d prefer another candidate to carry on his policies in 2024, according to a poll released Tuesday.

"While 31% of Republican and Republican-leaning independents want Trump to run again in two years, 61% say they would rather have another GOP standard-bearer, the USA Today/Suffolk University survey found.

"Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, 44, is their preferred choice.

"DeSantis, who cruised to re-election Nov. 8, leads Trump by 23 percentage points — 56% to 33% — in a head-to-head primary matchup, the poll shows.

"Nearly two-thirds of Republican and GOP-leaning voters (65%) say the governor should run for the White House in 2024, with just 24% saying he shouldn’t."

 

More good news about the Biden economy.

ABC reports, "Monthly inflation fell significantly. Prices rose 0.1% in November, cooling down from a 0.4% increase in October.

"The top contributor to the monthly price increase came from shelter costs, which rose 0.6% in November. Food prices also jumped over the month, rising 0.5%.

"But prices fell for a host of goods, including gasoline, used cars and trucks and medical services."

"In a world where inflation is rising at double digits in many major economies around the world, inflation is coming down in America," the President said. "Make no mistake, prices are still too high. We have a lot more work to do. But things are getting better, headed in the right direction."

ABC continued, "The decline in inflation follows a string of aggressive rate hikes from the Federal Reserve aimed at bringing prices down to normal levels.

"The inflation data arrives a day before the Fed is expected to impose another borrowing cost increase. Economists project the Fed will raise rates by 0.5% on Wednesday, a slowdown from three consecutive jumbo-sized rate hikes of 0.75% but still a significant intensification of its fight against price increases."

"The labor market has proven resilient. Hiring last month exceeded expectations and wages grew a blistering 5.1% compared to a year earlier, offering welcome relief for workers strained by price hikes."

 

Trump? Biden? Americans do not want either one in 2024 according to one poll. The poll is fairly accurate in showing the mood of the American people.

CNN reports, "There’s little appetite for a 2020 rematch in the coming presidential election, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS, as majorities of registered voters within each party say they’d rather see someone new nominated in 2024.

"About 6 in 10 Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say they want their party to nominate someone other than former President Donald Trump in 2024 (62%), while a similar 59% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents say they’d like to see someone other than President Joe Biden at the top of their ticket in the next presidential election. When pressed, though, a majority of Republican-aligned voters who say they’d like someone other than Trump to win the nomination indicate they would ultimately vote for him if he did emerge as the nominee. An even larger majority of Democratic-aligned voters with a similar opposition to Biden as their party’s nominee say they would vote for him in a general election if he won their party’s primary."

Trump is simply incompetent, and he is likely to be indicted for several crimes by the DOJ.

Biden is quite competent, but he is too old for another four-year term in office beginning in 2025.

 

Those are our nations problems... you seem to forget the Democrats had 2 months to solve our nations problems.. didn't happen... now the Republicans have to waste their time cleaning up the mess the Democrats have made.. like at the end of a child's birthday party...