May 8, 2023

Two weeks ago, President Joe Biden announced that he is running for reelection in 2024, promising to “finish the job”. What exactly does he want to finish, other than American exceptionalism as we know it?

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America is rapidly imploding on many fronts – financial and economic, cultural, safety, and our place in the world. Does finishing the job mean erasing every achievement of former President Donald Trump? Or is he completing former President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign promise, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America”?

Biden’s presidency is actually Obama’s third term, exactly as Obama described in a 2020 interview with Stephen Colbert, “He joked that he would be willing to sit ‘in my basement’ and ‘deliver the lines’ to a ‘frontman or frontwoman’ with an earpiece.”

Biden is the front man while Obama transforms the country. Biden is now expendable, having served his role. Can America even recover from Obama’s third term? The left can’t let Trump anywhere near the White House and need another leftist in office to cement America’s “fundamental transformation.”

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Was Biden’s reelection announcement serious or just a response to Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s announced candidacy? Is Sleepy Joe a placeholder for someone else to jump into the race as the Democrat candidate?

On paper, this should be another Trump victory. On May 3, Rasmussen Reports’ presidential tracking poll of likely US voters noted that Trump’s total approval was 50% compared to Biden’s at 46%.

What about in a head-to-head matchup? “The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that, if the 2024 presidential election were between Biden and former President Donald Trump, 47% of Likely U.S. voters would vote for Trump, while 40% would vote for Biden.”

Trump must first win the GOP nomination, which a year and a half before the election, is a longshot, despite the polls.

A recent CBS News/YouGov survey noted that among Republican primary voters, 58% plan on voting for Trump compared to 22% for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, almost a 3-fold difference. The few remaining contenders are in the low to mid-single digits.

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Polls aren’t elections and this is where Trump’s challenges begin.