White House Race- April 13, 2024

This last month has been full of surprises and challenges for me. Yesterday morning, I had a sudden household emergency involving a water main break and a lot of damage. So for now, I am displaced and do not feel much about the Presidential race. Hopefully, I might be able to be back home sometime this week. I may have to delay my blog coverage of five hours of American Idol tomorrow and Monday. For now, I am just trying to keep perspective.

Things definitely have to be scarier and more full of uncertainty for the citizens of Israel as compared to whatever personal inconvenience I am currently going through. It is difficult to watch coverage of Iran's attack on Israel. It reminds of me Saturday October 7, when I was literally feeling top sick that day to peruse news. Israel seemed well prepared for this attack though and thankfully the United States is playing a role in defending Israel as well. Hopefully, our alliance will never be fractured the way many on the fringe left and the isolationist right want. It is vastly important to both of our nations. A CNN interview this week of Independent Presidential candidate Cornel West and his equally radical professor running-mate was almost too outrageous to believe. This ticket seemed to bend over backwards to literally defend Hamas. Joe Biden and Democrats are worried about losing votes to these folks.

So, next weekend, or perhaps in the near future, I will go into more detail about all the events shaping the 2024 Presidential election. This Monday, as I will be awaiting updates on how to get my home fixed, Donald Trump will become the first former President and first presumptive Presidential nominee to be the defendant in a criminal trial. This is the one in New York City.

We will also look more closely into issues like abortion and how the national debate over the contentious issue as well as the fights in the states, such as Florida and Arizona, are expected to play a big role in this race. We know that Democrats are promising to protect abortion at the federal level, despite knowing they will not have the votes in the next Congress to ensure any such thing. Donald Trump has taken a variety of positions as a political candidate on this issue, and most recently refused to even say he is personally Pro-Life. After having been expected to call for national legislation to limit abortion (for which there would also not be the votes), he looked at the polls and said "leave it up to the states" after all.  There are political ramifications to that. Democrats would prefer to paint him as someone who wants a national ban and he sort of took away their ability to do that, by basically taking the Nikki Haley position. Some social conservatives are dismayed at Trump over this, yet it is hard to see how they are going to abandon him in large numbers, at least the folks who have stood by his thus far.

One thing is certain though, Trump's repeated narrative that "every legal scholar in America" wanted to see Roe vs. Wade overturned is so patently and ridiculously false, it is amazing to see how there is a single American who does not view him as a complete and total laughing stock.