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lees1975

(7,190 posts)
Fri Jul 21, 2023, 08:59 PM Jul 2023

Are Americans finally getting it? Where's the news media focus on this recent Monmouth poll?

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2023/07/are-americans-finally-getting-it-and.html

A new Monmouth poll, released this week, shows Biden with a significant lead, head to head, against Trump, and, surprise! It shows his lead increasing when Joe Manchin is included as a third party candidate.

The President has strong support within his own party, and no other candidate has anything anywhere near what they will need to qualify for a debate appearance. If Manchin runs on some sort of third party candidacy, it will be the very end of his political career. He has to weight whether or not he has a better chance at winning back his senate seat, odds of which are 50-50 at best right now, though he does have a slight lead in the polls over his best known potential challenger. Either way, Democrats don't have to worry nearly as much about a third party candidacy by Manchin as they would from one on the left, along the lines of Stein's misguided and disastrous run in 2016. Manchin activity in the senate these past two years has been aimed at gaining support from West Virginia conservatives, so he's not going to pull many votes from Democrats. He sunk his chances at that with his record these past two years.

Indictments are finally raining down around the failed former President 45, and it appears that the bulls eye of January 6th indictments is about to be hit with more of them in a court environment much less favorable to the Orange-headed buffoon. He is getting smacked down in efforts to use his candidacy as a shield from prosecution, an argument that is getting tiresome and weary, and is, in my opinion, one of the reasons why an increasing number of Americans don't want to see him as a candidate for any elected office again.

I'm optimistic enough, at this point, to think we are going to get our wish.
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