{"id":56418,"date":"2023-08-27T20:38:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T03:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=56418"},"modified":"2023-08-27T20:38:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T03:38:48","slug":"they-all-but-2-raised-their-hands-even-pence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2023\/08\/27\/they-all-but-2-raised-their-hands-even-pence\/","title":{"rendered":"They all (but 2) raised their hands, even Pence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Headline:  <em>Donald Trump Says President Joe Biden\u2019s \u2018Toothpick\u2019 Legs Look \u2018Terrible\u2019 at the Beach<\/em>.  Hey.  Cool.  Trump referenced the looks of a political opponent.  Not a woman.  A man at the line that his insults on female politicos&#8217; appearances are misogyny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are the droppings that come out of the Trump appearance on Ticket Carlson on &#8216;x&#8217;.  Which, despite reports, did not have the viewership of the Republican debate.  I think?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hard to figure out what, exactly, is going on.  I have the sense that despite everything, the lack of appearance of Trump &#8212; the most likely Republican nominee &#8212; made it a more productive exercise.  We have the bunch of also-runs jostling for a position in the event of a thing that may still happen &#8212; it is not a fait accompli that Trump wins &#8212; and at any rate, as we enter into multiple court trials, the ball goes into the Republican Party electorate court &#8212; these candidates are sitting there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Squint and maybe you find a Republican Party with policy and strategy divisions jockeying of a Trump disappearing universe.  A politician guy who reaches to be the next Trump but lands on the new Ted Cruz &#8212; just as Cruz attempted to run on Trump&#8217;s right and fell flat, so does DeSantis.  More successful, at the moment, Ramaswamy.  The only guy who is keeping alive a vice-presidential possibility in the current Trump calculus which differs markedly from 2016.  I suppose Nikki Haley is the only person else who figures at all &#8212; if the Republican Party could get together a smoke-filled room to override its electorate, they may just force her through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So.  Bring on the second debate.  Reconfigure the meaning.  We are aged away from the quaint complaint of Daniel Boorstin on Kennedy-Nixon &#8212; the term &#8220;pseudo-event&#8221;.  This does signify something, but what &#8212; we need the real events to clarify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headline: Donald Trump Says President Joe Biden\u2019s \u2018Toothpick\u2019 Legs Look \u2018Terrible\u2019 at the Beach. Hey. Cool. Trump referenced the looks of a political opponent. Not a woman. A man at the line that his insults on female politicos&#8217; appearances are misogyny. These are the droppings that come out of the Trump appearance on Ticket Carlson [&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-56418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56418","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=56418"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56427,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56418\/revisions\/56427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}