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What are the big ideas driving the elections? Where will the results leave America? Times Opinion columnists and writers are making sense of it all night long.
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What are the big ideas driving the elections? Where will the results leave America? Times Opinion columnists and writers are making sense of it all night long.
Stephen Miller Jul 11, 2021 10:20 PM ET Should DeSantis falter, there is no second option other than Trump. This is an uncomfortable truth the GOP must confront. It’s also why they cannot fully move on from Trump’s one-term presidency no matter how desperately they want to. Trump himself is not going anywhere. He’s made that painfully obvious by now — his goal seems to be to re-litigate the 2020 election and his personal grievances stemming from it from now until the 2024 primaries. This is unsustainable and the national media is licking their chops at the prospect of talking about th...
(AP Photo/Butch Dill, File) Honestly, I don’t see why it would be disrespectful to hold a political rally 200 miles away from a terrible tragedy nine days after it happened. Granted, Trump’s going to lob bombs at Democrats at a moment when Florida is “unified,” but life goes on. And he’s reportedly planning to ask for donations to the families of Surfside victims at the rally. Still, this story is interesting because tensions between Trump and DeSantis are inevitable as 2024 approaches. The Examiner even goes so far as to say the two sides are “feuding” over the rally, although ...