Where Does the Race Stand Now? – by William Otis
Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley are the two left now. In my view, either would make a fine President, certainly by recent standards. Both seem like traditional smaller government, law-and-order, fiscal sanity, control-the-border, pride-in-America conservatives. But one of the main arguments for nominating one of them instead of The Donald is strictly pragmatic: They don t have anything like Trump s gargantuan baggage and therefore offer a better chance of winning in November. Indeed, so the argument has often gone, Trump is the only serious potential candidate decrepit Joe has a realistic chance of beating.
Recent developments present good news and bad news. The good news is that Biden is indeed in big trouble. The bad news is that precisely this trouble undermines the pragmatic argument for someone other than Trump. Particularly noteworthy was this story from none other than CNN about how a Trump v. Biden race would come out today: