Boy, what a difference a month makes in politics.
In June, President Joe Biden and former GOP President Donald Trump were locked in a close race. Then came a disastrous June 27 debate showing by Biden, causing peeps of voices calling for Biden to step aside. And then the chirps became a cacophony.
Trump, who stayed mostly quiet while Democrats fed on Biden, then narrowly missed being killed July 13 by a 20-year-old sniper’s bullet at a Pennsylvania rally, fueling Democratic and some GOP calls for turning down the volume on politics and gun violence. Next came the rapture of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee where Trump picked little-known U.S. Sen. and sycophant J.D. Vance to be his running mate. The political winds seemed to blow increasingly Republican with many in the party seeming to think Trump’s election was assured.
But then Biden, who for weeks resisted the growing calls to step away, surprised America on Sunday by doing just that — committing a selfless act to help his party keep the presidency out of Trump’s hands. He strongly endorsed his political partner, Vice President Kamala Harris. And the winds flipped again with Harris raising more than $81 million in the first 24 hours after getting the nod and most of the Democratic establishment behind her — at which point, Trump welcomed Harris to the race like the gentleman he’s always been.
“Wow, just watching the Fake News,” Trump wrote in a social media post on Monday, “and they’re doing their very best to turn the Worst President in the History of our Country into a ‘Brilliant and Heroic Leader’ (He was heroic because he quit!), and to turn ‘Dumb as a Rock’ Kamala Harris from a totally failed and insignificant Vice President into a future ‘Great’ President. No, it just doesn’t work that way!”
In response, Harris gave as good as she got.
“I was a courtroom prosecutor,” Harris noted. “In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds. Predators who abused women. Fraudsters who ripped off consumers. Cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say I know Donald Trump’s type.”
Talk about a roller coaster that’s ahead.
So now we’re left with a campaign that America can sink its teeth into — an ex-prosecutor pitted against a recently convicted felon who is also legally considered a sexual predator after a 2023 civil court ruling.
Hold on to your hats. The next 100 days before the election are going to be wild.
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