{"id":57533,"date":"2024-07-21T15:08:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T22:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=57533"},"modified":"2024-07-21T15:08:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T22:08:51","slug":"so-it-begins-anew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2024\/07\/21\/so-it-begins-anew\/","title":{"rendered":"so it begins anew"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It becomes somewhat clear on Alan Lichtman that the quick message to him from &#8212; when I looked the name up it was a &#8220;former&#8221; Biden advisor &#8211;that &#8220;he&#8217;s staying in&#8221; was a last ditch point of desperation, line up all the allies you got.  But how much is he aligned?  Lichtman&#8217;s magical &#8220;keys&#8221; insist Biden resign so that Harris can maintain that &#8220;incumbency&#8221; key off of 100 days of office.  The good news at the moment is that just about everyone is rolling with the great &#8220;who will Harris pick as vice president?&#8221;, a matter that the likes of Licthman believe is irrelevant.  My vote, just for giggles, is John Fetterman &#8212; we can move from one off-voice to another, and a man who recovered from a stroke and had enough of a period of visible shaking to convince the National Review crowd and on to Fix News of cognitive decline.  How will this work against JD Vance at the vice-president debate?  Hilariously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bad news is that there are still need reports surfacing about &#8212; &#8220;who will be challenging for the Democratic nomination?&#8221;. Yeah, sure.  Damned if Harris isn&#8217;t losing another one of those keys!  A nomination fight!  Let&#8217;s see if Tulsi Gabbard takes the fight to the convention, and looking her name up I see she is on Fox News pissing all over Harris right now, because &#8211; &#8211; why not?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The disappointing thing, I guess, is if Biden &#8212; in his lame duck presidency&#8211; brokers a cease fire in Israel.  Harris will not pick up that key.  And everything goes for naught.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It becomes somewhat clear on Alan Lichtman that the quick message to him from &#8212; when I looked the name up it was a &#8220;former&#8221; Biden advisor &#8211;that &#8220;he&#8217;s staying in&#8221; was a last ditch point of desperation, line up all the allies you got. But how much is he aligned? Lichtman&#8217;s magical &#8220;keys&#8221; insist [&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-57533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57533","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=57533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57534,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57533\/revisions\/57534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}