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Sometimes the whining from Trump is so hypocritical that all you can do is laugh at the defeated former President.

If Biden quits and Harris runs as the Presidential candidate. What happens to Gavin Newsom? Same issue as Trump/Rubio, both Newsom and Harris are from the same state which would cancel California's electoral college votes. In 2028 does he campaign against a sitting President or wait until 2032 when he's 64. I've noticed he's been a super fan of Biden's, and I'm thinking there's an element of self-interest there. If it's Harris, I'm thinking Harris/Shapiro, representing a "rust belt" state. And unrelated to anything, Ezra Klein, such tasty looking lips

France isn't used to coalition/minority governments as is Germany, Italy, The Netherlands and well most countries in Europe, and even Canada for that matter. It will be interesting who is eventually chosen by Macron to be the Prime Minister. But, thankfully, for now, the extremists, with their roots in fascist parties, had their expectations grounded. The neo-fascists are still the third largest grouping in the French parliament. Hopefully the center and left will find a way to work together over the next two years.

I wasn't saying that competence over the last four years isn't important. (Biden may have accomplished more in four years than Obama did in eight. Although Biden's agenda has faced an extremist super majority on the Supreme Court legislating from the bench.) I am saying that being able to article your successes through a shit storm of lies is essential. So far, Biden is a better administrator than he has been a campaigner. The next four months needs a campaigner not an administrator. Biden was elected in a wave of anti-Trump euphoria. The majority of Americans breathing a sigh of relief that the chaos was over. Biden was the agent of reason. There's been four years of constant chaos making and obstruction by the MAGA extremists and there are doubts about Biden's abilities to be the agent of reason that we need.

TMI on Kudlow

The defeated former president claims he doesn't know about Project 2025. Demonstrating his incompetence once again. (Of course he's never read it, it's 900 pages long. He'll need the picture book edition.) What serious candidate running for the highest office is ignorant of the primary document being developed and promoted by the Heritage Foundation. He's so lazy and he treats his believers as if they're stupid. The defeated former president is disrespectful to absolutely everyone.

The extremists within the MAGA wing of the GOP create chaos and obstruction in all legislative branches of government, and then attempt to govern through the Courts, who have life time appointments. It's the back door to the authoritarian regime that the MAGA financial backers dream of.

Lots of information from a variety of sources. Refreshing. One of Biden's problems is that in the cable news/social media era you have to be charismatic to be successful, being a good administrator and competent legislator doesn't provide lift off a current day campaign for President. Is Biden as competent now as he showed over the last four years? In a presidential campaign it's not enough. Biden was elected in 2020 with a wave of votes flowing to him from people who were disgusted by the hate mongering and incompetent former President. Whether Biden can govern as well as he has over the four years or not, isn't the only question about being the next president. It's about whether he can win the election. Sadly or not, it's not only about competence. It's about being able to explain and convince voters about what he's been able to do, in the face of constant GOP obstructionism. A candidate for president needs to be articulate and charismatic. Trump can spew out short sound bites and repeats them over and over until people, even some on here, believe Trump's constant lies and fabrications.

You obsess over individual polls. Relax. Representative democracy shouldn't be so scary to you.

damn auto-correct - sow chaos

Project 2025 is far more frightening than Gingrich's Contract on America. It takes even more direct aim at killing the American middle class than Reagan did.

The question for American's is do you want to elect a person to government who wants, and is able to, govern? If the answer is yes, then Trump has demonstrated he is not the candidate for you. He is interested, and only able, to sew chaos. Distraction to hide his weakness as a leader. If you want someone who is able to identify an issue, and come up with possible solutions to address the problem, Trump has demonstrated through four years of government he is not interested and unable to fix any problem. Kids in cages doesn't solve any problem. it doesn't really matter who the Democrats are running as a candidate. My dog would be a more capable leader than Trump ever was.

The Republican party has been shrinking for years. One recent poll put it down to 21% of Americans' identifying as Republican. So there's this ever more extreme element dominating a shrinking party inflicting us all with the hate mongering, incompetent Trump. A man who takes credit for Mitch McConnel's stacking of the courts with extremist judges, but has nothing legislatively to point to as a success. Infrastructure? Lol. Trump, beyond the sexual harassment and the blatant corruption and his attempts to steal the 2020 election, he was incompetent.

Biden could of had a very successful one term president. He's done a good job with some real achievements, much like LBJ. Infrastructure - finally happened. Trump was an on-going joke announcing infrastructure week and nothing happened for four years. Better job growth and lowest unemployment rates for 40 years. Trump sucked the fumes of the Obama recovery for his first two years, and then completely bungled the pandemic. Fighting climate change with the biggest investment in non-fossil fuels while at the same time achieving energy independence. Trump failed at both - windmills cause cancer he said. In many ways Biden was a more progressive president than Obama was. Am I a Biden supporter? Not particularly. I wasn't a big fan of Obama legislatively either - where's the public option? It was only in his last two years he started to fight the complete obstructionism of the GOP to anything and everything with more executive actions. Obama came late to the GOP strategy of being the party of not governing and only sowing chaos. Whether we like it or not, the presidential race isn't only about competence and actual legislative achievements. It's also about charisma. Biden is lacking in that essential quality. Obama picked Biden as his VP because of Biden's history and cross the aisle relationships in the Senate, and his ability to be bi-partisan to move legislation along. Not for his charisma. Whether Biden drops out or not, and whether Biden is as competent as he's been over these last four years, the election is still a choice between someone who wants to govern and the GOP's candidate who is a hate mongering, incompetent man who needs to lie about anything and everything.

The base reality is having no president would be better than having the defeated hate spreading former president anywhere near the White House.

While debating isn't how the presidency actually works as a job, and that was hard to watch. Biden was mumbling, and Trump was loudly lying about anything and everything.

Hopefully he remembers he's debating Biden tonight and not Obama. I want the GOP to have a legitimate candidate, and not a complete the complete embarrassment that Trump has been so far this campaign.

Don't forget there are plans in place by the MAGA GOP to intimidate qualified voters, who they have racial profiled, to make it more difficult to vote. In Georgia you there are legal consequences for handing some one waiting, in an hours long voting line up, a bottle of water. A better solution would be for the State of Georgia to open up a lot more voting places. Why is the MAGA GOP so afraid of democracy? Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. The defeated former President resoundingly lost in 2020. A decent man would accept that, and a coward would whine.

Unfortunately, it seems that Trump is trying to be a contestant on Putin's re-casting of The Apprentice, which should frighten any gay man in particular, and those who believe in representative democracy in general.

Question. Will the defeated former President try and preempt being a no show for the debate with an announcement about his VP pick? In between whining about the debate rules he agreed as suddenly "rigged". I'd like to be wrong on this.

True. Trump is under Putin's control.

If you ever step out of your MAGA echo chamber you'll find out it's the direction of most polls. Will the swing toward Biden continue? Who knows, maybe it will or maybe it won't. However, politically it's stupid for supporters of the defeated former President to ignore current reality. And continue to do whatever it is you need to do.

I know this is off topic, sorry. And about Mar-o-lago. If the former defeated President thinks the true assessed value of the property tax is $1 billion dollars, why isn't he paying property taxes based on $1 billion dollars instead of $18 million. Everyone else in Palm Beach could get a big tax cut if he did.

The only drug issue that's of any importance is if Biden challenged Trump, the defeated former President, to taking truth serum.

I'll take your comment about @Bingo T Dog as a vote of confidence. Thank you