The attacks on Biden from the Democrat Establishment coincide with the ascent of Gavin Newsom.
How could the DNC avoid a messy primary and nominate their preferred candidate (Newsom)?
It’s in the fine print.
Biden is increasingly frail and confused, his dementia is worsening and his economic plan is faltering.
His popularity continues to crumble even among Democrats.
Consider the possibility that he resigns after receiving the Presidential nomination at the DNC 2024 convention.
Why that specific timing?
Because –
Rules adopted by the Democratic National Committee in 2022 leave the DNC as the sole authority to appoint a Presidential nominee where that nominee resigns after the August 2024 convention.
No vote or primary needed.
Newsom is already running a presidential campaign – his tour of China, Xi’s visit to SF (why not DC??), his civil rights stops in the US.
The question is whether he is targeting 2024 or 2028.
Maybe it’s both.
This is Newsom’s final term as governor; he’s barred from running in 2026.
Strategically, it is better for him to run now rather than wait until 2028. Think momentum.
What does Newsom have to say about a presidential run? Curious non-denials.
Something to think about.🤷♂️
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Highlights from the deposition of Special Counsel David Weiss -
The DOJ initially denied his "special attorney" status - directing him to go through Biden's politically appointed US attorneys to charge Hunter Biden.
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The DC US Attorney "decided not to join the [Hunter Biden tax] case as a partner or co-counsel."
He received a similar denial from the Central District of CA.
Refusals to prosecute the President's son for hooker tax deductions.
But - Weiss did understand he had "special attorney" status to prosecute those 2014-15 charges.
Curiously, he let the statute of limitations pass.
He refused to explain that mistake, or why he declined recommendations of the DOJ tax division.
Race-based college admissions must "be invalidated under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment."
Universities "may never use race as a stereotype or negative"
Chief Justice Roberts addresses the dissent:
The Judiciary would pick "winners and losers based on the color of their skin."
They would uphold "separate but equal" as not inherently unequal.
Harsher words from Justice Roberts, addressing the dissent's support for race-based winners and losers:
"Lost in the false premise of judicial humility that the dissent espouses is a claim to power so radical, so destructive, that it required a Second Founding to undo."