With Michigan's primaries behind us, and the ill-named “Super Tuesday” batch of primaries ahead of us, it's clearer than ever that the major party nominees will be off-putting geriatrics who should have found something else to do with the golden years than threaten to occupy the White House for another four years.
And that's not the minority opinion in the country. A Morning Consult/Bloomberg poll of swing state voters shows they remain profoundly underwhelmed this election year. But there's new election theme taking hold in the land that…makes it all seem that much worse: Joe Biden is “too old” and Donald Trump is “too dangerous” to hold office.
It's taking the old “lesser of two evils” approach to major party politics to entirely new levels of despair.
As Karl Rove writes in The Wall Street Journal, the distaste voters have form Biden and Trump makes each candidate far weaker than their cheerleaders and hangers-on would have anyone believe:
Even more worrisome for Team Trump should be that at least 2 in 10 Iowa and South Carolina voters said they won't support Mr. Trump in November. Roughly 3 of 10 New Hampshire GOP primary voters said the same. If Republican defections this fall from Mr. Trump are anywhere close to those numbers nationwide, he's cooked.
Mr. Trump may be unconcerned because he thinks, as he said when one stubborn Republican congressional leader finally endorsed him, “They always bend the knee.” But this is a democracy, not “Game of Thrones.” He must convince Republicans to go for him. They can stay home if he doesn't.
That possibility ought to worry Team Trump – even as they roll to what looks like an undefeated primary season. Maybe they should ask the New England Patriots about what it's like to go undefeated in the regular season…only to lose the Super Bowl.
And to be fair, staying home may look like the best option for disaffected voters on both sides of the aisle:
Mr. Biden's public appearances reinforce the perception that he isn't up to the job and make it hard for Democrats to get enthused. While answering questions about the border and a Gaza cease-fire on Tuesday, Mr. Biden was licking a giant ice cream cone. He looked less like the commander in chief than a great-grandfather indulging his sweet tooth while giving the kids an after-school treat. Stagecraft is only one of Mr. Biden's shortcomings, and hardly the most serious. But this kind of thing adds up.
Kind of like barnacles…but much harder to scrape off.
Though Team Biden will move heaven, Earth, and everything in-between to show their guy isn't the kindly old man with a failing memory who will be 86 years-old if he makes it to the end of a second term.
Those down-ballot candidates for Congress, and state and local offices ought to be prepared for voters to be tuned out, turned off and gone fishing on Election Day.
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.
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