Donald Trump, Joe Biden Secure Their Respective Nominations

Decision Desk HQ projects Donald J. Trump wins the Washington Republican Presidential Primary and has won enough delegates to secure the Republican nomination for President.#DecisionMade: 11:00pm ET

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It is mid-March.

I’m bored with politics.

We are exactly where I thought we would be.

Donald Trump and Joe Biden have easily wrapped up their primaries.

New York Times:

President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump on Tuesday secured the delegates necessary to clinch their parties’ presidential nominations, according to The Associated Press, cementing a general election rematch in November months in the making.

Both men and their campaigns have long anticipated this moment. Mr. Biden faced only token opposition in the Democratic primary, as is typical for a sitting president, while Mr. Trump had been his party’s dominant front-runner for months.

Their November collision began to look even more likely after Mr. Trump scored a decisive win in Iowa in January. His victory cleared the field of all but one of his major Republican rivals and put him on a glide path to his party’s nomination. His last remaining primary challenger, Nikki Haley, suspended her campaign last week, further clearing a path that had already been remarkably free of obstacles. …

Nothing has fundamentally changed in months.

Just as I predicted, Donald Trump has caught break after break in the lawfare that has been thrown at him with the most recent example being having several of his charges in the Georgia election subversion case dismissed. The only case which appears to be headed for trial before the 2024 election is the Stormy Daniels hush money case in New York which will have the least impact.

Joe Biden remains deeply unpopular. Liberal pundits got their hopes up that his shrill, hyper partisan SOTU address, which I didn’t bother to watch or comment on, was a turning point. The polls that have come out since show Trump has maintained his lead in the national popular vote and in key swing states.

The 2024 election is shaping up to be a referendum on Joe Biden. Biden’s deep unpopularity appears to be just enough to push Trump over the finish line. We keep waiting for some big game changing shoe to drop and shift the focus back to Trump. It hasn’t happened in over six months now.