Remains popular? It actually should read something like this: “Biden trounces all comers among Democrats in poll, but remarkably trails Michelle Obama.”
Except Michelle Obama, to whom President Biden is losing by 45 percent to 43 percent.
This is, of course, before the former first lady has announced her candidacy. One can only speculate what the numbers would be if she did, but it’s highly likely that the gap would widen considerably.
Perhaps.
But the unremitting will to power, seemingly in danger of slipping away from the Democrats/globalists in an international movement toward MAGA-style populism, can’t be overestimated.
And if readers of the right-leaning Just the News know those poll numbers, as do The Epoch Times readers now, so do those in power at the Democratic Party. They may even know them better and for longer.
“Lingering tensions between the Biden and Obama teams broke into the open this week when the former president’s close political adviser David Axelrod said President Biden should consider stepping aside from reelection for the sake of the country.
“Former Biden White House chief of staff and longtime Biden confidant Ron Klain shot back, complaining about past pointed criticisms of the president from Axelrod.
“White House aides brushed aside Axelrod’s comments, pointing out former President Obama was in a difficult polling situation a year ahead of his reelection race and still won.
“But the criticism, along with media attention on a New York Times/Sienna College poll showing Biden behind Trump in five swing states, which prompted Axelrod’s remarks, was clearly an annoyance.”
More than just an annoyance, things seem to have, if anything, since been getting worse for President Biden.
And who better as a stalking horse for a Michelle Obama candidacy—in reality, what would be a fourth term for her husband—than the reliable Mr. Axelrod?
But when will Ms. Obama declare, if she does? (And it should be clear that I’m reasonably certain that she will.)
“Rocky” and I speculated months ago that Ms. Obama would be “the woman who,” with her obvious appeal to the Democrat’s most loyal constituency—black women.
President Biden, in his obvious decline, would eventually cease to be that “gift that keeps on giving” for the GOP, and Ms. Obama would replace him.
President Biden, for reasons that may include immunity to prosecution, will undoubtedly resist, but no one, as most of us learn eventually, is indispensable.
“Rocky” and I both also agreed that this replacement would occur as late as possible to avoid scrutiny and/or rules questions, most likely on or about the Democratic National Convention in Chicago (an Obama stronghold) in late August 2024.
It’s there that Ms. Obama will be hailed as the conquering heroine.
If I’m wrong, you can all check me then, and I'll eat the traditional crow.
But more importantly, is the Republican Party prepared for such an eventuality?
Not if we’re to believe Vivek Ramaswamy, who, at the third GOP presidential primary debate, called for the resignation of Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and, by implication, excoriated the RNC for choosing the almost absurdly biased-against-Republicans NBC to host the event.
The candidate/entrepreneur challenged the network’s Kristen Welker about two years of bald-faced lying about Trump–Russia collusion. (Smiling thinly, she said nothing.)
No matter what one might think about Mr. Ramaswamy’s many proposals, he was certainly spot on in this case. The RNC hasn’t exactly been creative or in any way modern in its methodology, seeming to look backward to a Bush era that no longer exists, especially with the party’s own rank and file.
Former President Donald Trump is undoubtedly aware of this, as is his campaign. But it’s unknown the degree to which they’re prepared to counter a sudden candidacy from Michelle Obama.
