{"id":56428,"date":"2023-08-30T14:17:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T21:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=56428"},"modified":"2023-08-30T14:17:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T21:17:31","slug":"2024-plays-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2023\/08\/30\/2024-plays-out\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 plays out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On a betting line, I do not blame you if given a choice of Trump and The Field of you choose The Field.  But each individual &#8212; nah.  We enter alternate universes where each of a handful of candidate happens, but the biggest shard remains Trump&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Review almost has me convinced it will yet be DeSantis.  Despite everything.  Think of it as McCain 2008.  Kerry 2004.  Their campaigns failed into a lot my dark stretch.  And then came a reckoning.  Huckabee shot down Romney and Dean was all hot air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> And yes, at the moment it is the Trump show.  But Iowa and New Hampshire stare at the names and change the dynamics in a hurry.  Or they don&#8217;t.  See how this works?  It is a hinge that Trump can collapse to his corest of core support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mitch McConnell freezes again.  He turns into another Diane Feinstein.  Maybe if I bind McConnell in together the call for Feinstein to resign and retire now won&#8217;t be met with charges of sexist double-standards?  For Biden, it would be good for the mental collapses to be off the stage, even if their departures will bring immediate suggestions on &#8220;and how about you?&#8221; &#8211; &#8211; not&#8230; Quite&#8230; Deserved, but almost nearly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a betting line, I do not blame you if given a choice of Trump and The Field of you choose The Field. But each individual &#8212; nah. We enter alternate universes where each of a handful of candidate happens, but the biggest shard remains Trump&#8217;s. The National Review almost has me convinced it will [&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-56428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56428","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=56428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56429,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56428\/revisions\/56429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}