No matter who is sworn in as president in January, we’re already getting a good idea of whom partisans want to run in 2024.
President Trump’s pollster, McLaughlin & Associates, added a 2024 question on its exit poll. It presumed a Trump victory in 2020.
If that were to happen, former first lady Michelle Obama is the top Democratic pick, at 25%, followed by California Sen. Kamala Harris, at 18%.
On the GOP side, Vice President Mike Pence leads Donald Trump Jr., 30% to 20%.
But key sources continue to believe that if Biden’s election is certified, the elder Trump will try a comeback, and that would likely block the path for Pence and Don Jr.
- It was never supposed to happen again, but if there is any lesson that the 2000 election, Bush v. Gore, and the Florida recount taught, it is to make it a federal case and not something left to state courts like the Trump team is doing. At least, that’s what former President George W. Bush’s team leader, James Baker III, thinks. In the book, Texas Titans: George H.W. Bush and James A. Baker, III: A Friendship Forged in Power, Baker told author Charles Denyer, “A lot of people were saying this was terrible, the states should retain the rights to this issue. I knew if we did not make this a federal thing, we were toast.”
- They used to run the GOP, but now so-called “country club Republicans” are homeless, cast out by the Trump team. And that’s a good thing, according to Oregon Rep. Greg Walden. He told the centrist GOP Ripon Society, “Trump recreated the Republican Party that now is appealing more and more toward working-class people.”
