{"id":56079,"date":"2023-08-05T16:59:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T23:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=56079"},"modified":"2023-08-05T16:59:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T23:59:39","slug":"the-republican-undercard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2023\/08\/05\/the-republican-undercard\/","title":{"rendered":"The Republican undercard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is, in the polling, a smidgen of reason to believe the  Republican Party can move on from Trump.  Of course, this is out -weighed by the reason to believe they won&#8217;t.  But it is nonetheless there.  The question on &#8212; then who? &#8212; arises, with the answer that it is in a pile of shares &#8212; believe in mind of the cast of characters running &#8212; or none can be odds on favourites for the scenario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A little bit lost in the legal technicalities, as in &#8212; some things hinge on whether Trump believes his own crap.  At least in theory.   From this score the criminal charges become political &#8212; the viewer watching can believe the Trump defense which happens not to be flattering to Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the 2016 elections, there was that moment of an urging to dump Trump in the wake of the Access Hollywood video footage.  It was not going to happen.  In 2024 I have to at least broach the possibility that the Republicans a top can lifeline their Trump nominee in the midst of a trial.  And I guess this is where the veep selection has its advantages.  Tim Scott &#8212; hope and optimism &#8212; a second selling for chance to transcend our racist history &#8212; if he can pivot from Trump and sell the referendum on the old man in the White House and cultural frustrations.  Pence, of course, is dead for this beat &#8212; and I gather that is why he now can dismantle some small place against Trump with quoting him as saying Pence is &#8220;too honest&#8221;.  Not a likely sell, but the only sell he has.  Just as with Scott and my ponderence of veep to pres &#8212; not likely, but likelier than Pence&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is, in the polling, a smidgen of reason to believe the Republican Party can move on from Trump. Of course, this is out -weighed by the reason to believe they won&#8217;t. But it is nonetheless there. The question on &#8212; then who? &#8212; arises, with the answer that it is in a pile of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56081,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56079\/revisions\/56081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}