{"id":12558,"date":"2020-08-12T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12558"},"modified":"2020-08-11T17:36:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T00:36:11","slug":"who-or-what-exactly-is-running-against-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/who-or-what-exactly-is-running-against-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Who or What Exactly Is Running Against Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we enter the final 90 days of the November presidential campaign, a few truths are crystalizing about the \u201cBiden problem,\u201d or the inability of a 77-year-old Joe Biden to conduct a \u201cnormal\u201d campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden\u2019s cognitive challenges are increasing geometrically, whether as a result of months of relative inactivity and lack of stimulation or just consistent with the medical trajectory of his affliction. His lot is increasingly similar to historical figures such as 67-year-old President William Henry Harrison, William Gladstone\u2019s last tenure as prime minister, Chancellor Hindenburg, or Franklin Roosevelt in late 1944\u2014age and physical infirmities signaling to the concerned that a subordinate might assume power sooner than later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the past, it was to Biden\u2019s advantage to postpone his selection of his female-mandated vice presidential running mate, given the lose-lose choice of either picking a woke young African American female who may polarize swing voters while spending the next three months being vetted in the fashion of California Representative Karen Bass\u2019s Scientology and Fidel Castro issues, or selecting a vetted, but off-putting former National Security Advisor Susan Rice or Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), who does not especially like Biden and would be seen as hovering and rummaging about as an impatient president-in-waiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden, remember, is one of the few primary candidates in history who promised in advance&nbsp;to pick a running mate on the basis of gender and, as events would dictate, and by inference, race as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2020\/08\/09\/who-or-what-exactly-is-running-against-trump\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness As we enter the final 90 days of the November presidential campaign, a few truths are crystalizing about the \u201cBiden problem,\u201d or the inability of a 77-year-old Joe Biden to conduct a \u201cnormal\u201d campaign. Biden\u2019s cognitive challenges are increasing geometrically, whether as a result of months of relative inactivity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3gy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12245,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-portentous-biden-blowup\/","url_meta":{"origin":12558,"position":0},"title":"The Portentous Biden Blowup","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 12, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Joe Biden lost it again on the campaign trail at an auto plant being built in Detroit, and in a now familiar script. 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I am sure, as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Punditry&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Punditry","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/opinion\/punditry\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11982,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/biden-or-bust\/","url_meta":{"origin":12558,"position":4},"title":"Biden or Bust?","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 12, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Pundits and politicos play the current parlor game of counting Joe Biden\u2019s daily bloopers, signs of debility, or embarrassments. Unlike former \u201cApprentice\u201d host Donald Trump\u2019s exaggerations and narcissisms, Biden\u2019s fantasies are not baked into an outsider candidacy that by intent offers as a radical\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12403,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/biden-as-paradox\/","url_meta":{"origin":12558,"position":5},"title":"Biden as Paradox","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 3, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review It\u00a0is now conventional punditry that should Joe Biden win in November, his vice president, in 1944-style, will sooner rather than later become president. 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