Overthought
So. Trump, reportedly, believed that the Democrats were always on the cusp of dumping Joseph Biden and replacing him with Hillary Clinton or Michele Obama. I suspect projection on two fronts — a Clinton and Obama obsession and scheming of such politicos mixed with an understanding of “how things work” based on that brief time period when some Republicans were aiming to dump him and go with Pence after the Access Hollywood tape came to light.
He also buys into a cocksure Biden’s unpalatable — ironically undone by Trump in not “really” going after him lest the Democrats and either Clinton or Obama having time to pull the switch. Of course, now we are in the realm of what suspect is post hoc rationalizing and excuse making. It is even probable it would not matter if Trump let slip the wars of “sleepy Joe” “senile!!!” — impressions baked into the cake as Biden kept his “basement strategy”.
Curious strategum in Missouri from a Gun toting Marine Democratic Senate hopeful.
Democrat Lucas Kunce, who is running for an open Senate seat in Missouri, released a campaign ad Wednesday mocking one of his opponents, Republican Mark McCloskey, who drew national outrage last summer when he and his wife pointed guns at Black Lives Matter protesters outside their St. Louis mansion.
In the video, Kunce cocks a firearm, appears to aim it at something, and then says: “You know what? Forget it. I don’t have to do this type of thing… Stunts like that, those are for those clowns on the other side, like that ‘Mansion Man’ Mark McCloskey.â€
Kunce ― a former Marine who; declared his candidacy in March then challenges his opponent to apologize to the people he “threatened with deadly force.†He offers to give McCloskey a “U.S. Marine-led weapons training class†in return.
Have your cake and eat it too: I got a gun; I use it responsibly. The trouble is we saw this gambit from a Democratic Senate hopeful in Missouri in 2016. He lost — could not sway past the “avote for him is a vote for gun grabber Schumer and company” line.