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Earlier this month on my podcast I spoke with Mark Spiegel about the upcoming 2024 election.
Many of my readers vehemently disagreed with his take on who would be running and what the outcome of the election would be, so I thought it would be a good idea to keep a discussion as we head into the back end of 2023.
I’ve opened this discussion forum on my site up to both free and paid subscribers for the purpose of fostering a dialogue.
Personally, here are my thoughts heading into 2024:
I can’t believe that Democrats would keep Joe Biden as their nominee. There seems to be no better way to give away the Presidency in 2024 than to run him. Running Kamala Harris is equally as terrible of an idea. I think if you’re the DNC you have to go “scorched Earth” on your candidates and start backing someone else immediately, or else you open the door for the GOP.
Trump is going to be a wild card. It’s an unprecedented situation with his looming criminal charges and I don’t know what lengths the powers that be will go to in order to keep him out of the race. My guess is DeSantis would be his potential backup, but personally I wouldn’t mind seeing Vivek or Chris Christie as his understudy, should the situation warrant.
I worry about mail-in ballots and don’t think it’s crazy to do so. While this is a GOP talking point, it’s really a non-partisan point I’m trying to make. I’m not some J6er marching on the Capitol, nor am I an election denier. But I do have what I believe to be reasonable concerns. I’ve always been okay with absentee voting but 2020 saw mail-in ballots in a fashion we’ve never seen before thanks to Covid-19. I think it’s only reasonable to worry that, when adopting such a different standard for the first time in election history, there could be blind spots for potential malfeasance in a way that there hasn’t been in the past. I’m interested to see how this is handled in 2024, specifically because I think election integrity is a bigger issue now than it’s ever been.
NBC has called a Trump/Biden election the rematch that no one wants to see:
Ironically, a return engagement looks increasingly likely at a time when the vast majority of Americans believe the country the two men led back-to-back is on the wrong track. More pointedly, in an NBC News survey released Sunday, 70 percent of respondents said Biden shouldn't run, and 60 percent said Trump shouldn't.
To add to the sense of stagnancy, most polls show the longtime rivals within a few points of each other, suggesting there has not been a seismic political shift in the country since Biden won the 2020 electoral college on the strength of statistically narrow victories in several key states.
Do you agree?
Also, I’d love to know my readers thoughts on the following questions at our ongoing discussion:
Will Joe Biden be the Democratic candidate in 2024 and, if not, who will replace him and why?
Will Donald Trump be the Republican candidate in 2024 and, if not, who will replace him and why?
Should Biden and Trump remain the candidates, who will their respective Vice President picks be, and why?
Can candidates like RFK and Vivek Ramaswamy wind up in government at all, even if they don’t win their party’s candidacy? (i.e. Do you see a spot for them in anyone else’s cabinet?)
How big of an issue do you think election integrity will be this year compared to years past?
I have an ongoing free discussion at my forum where I'd love for Zero Hedge readers to add their thoughts. It's completely free and can be accessed here.
