It's Biden vs. Trump In 2024...

 

By EDUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ

McALLEN, Texas | They're saying Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is about to rip off his kid gloves and take serious swings at fellow Republican Donald J. Trump. He'd better, although it says here that Ronnie's presidential aspirations journey is over.

That's the latest New York Times poll in graphic above.

Any questions?

Democrats are the big winners, of course, as just about every sane political pundit will tell you indictments-addled Trump cannot beat Democrat incumbent Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential race. Too many legal problems for the former New Yorker. Too many hangers-on headed to trial with him. Too many hangups to be of any use for the overall population.

But Trump is still there, even as longshot candidate Will Hurd, a former congressman from Texas, has stood before a microphone in contested Iowa to say Trump "is running to stay out of prison." There were enough boos from his audience about that to make us feel that NOTHING and no one can stop Trump.

Warehouse worker-lookalike DeSantis is the Big Loser.

DeSantis held some promise a few weeks and months back. But, like most novices in tough national politics, he flubbed a few soft grounders. Slavery, he said without laughing, "benefitted" Blacks. Covid, he went on, was a government hoax he never bought into. Public education is rotten if it makes fun of White people.

DeSantis is likely licking his own ass at this point.

The absolute surprise is that five of Trump's six opponents polled in the single digits (see numbers above). Mike Pence, the former vice president, is too dumb to make any headway when he won't take on his former boss, the one who once suggested paleface Pence should be hung if he certified Biden's win in 2020, which he did.

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is wasting her kitchen time. She's "White House Cabinet" material at best, as is her fellow state resident, U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, who is doing well back home but is damned weak nationally.

The Indian-American in the Big Tent, Vivek Ramaswamy, has peaked. We say he never had a chance at the GOP presidential nomination. Like, why would he? He's the absolutely wrong skin-color for Bigwig Republicans. You might even say that The Swamy looks too much like Barack Obama, and that's not good for a Republican.

Chris Christie has roared. The former governor of New Jersey also has hit back at Trump's hefty gut. But the results have been negligible. Christie is like former boxer Jerry Quarry, the Great White Hope heavyweight who fought the biggies and earned himself dementia at 53, his age at death.

No, Maria, don't look for any Great Groundswell lifting any of these losing Republicans to the forefront. Bless them to Mount Golgotha, but it's not happening, Baby.

It's Trump vs. Biden in 2024...

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