The Race For 2024

[thebeave]

Wondering...
Has any previously elected president, when running again, ever selected a different VP from the one with whom he won previously?

Grover Cleveland is the only president to serve non-consecutive terms. In his first term he had Aldai Stevenson and in his second Thomas Hendricks (who died in office and was not replaced).
Theodore Roosevelt unsuccessfully ran as a third party candidate in 1912 and had a different running mate. I do not know of any other presidents who tried.
In any case I do not see why, when running for a non-consecutive term rather than as an incumbent, the former president would not choose somebody else if that person is a better fit at the time. As others pointed out, many presidents switched veeps for different reasons, but at least when running for reelection one could see the value of continuity of the ticket and not change the running mate except for a good reason. When running for a non-consecutive term, that reason is no longer there.

I thought for sure you brain farted about Stevenson, but I now see he was the grandfather of the Adlai Stevenson who ran for Dem presidental nominee twice in the '50's.

 

[ZiprHead]

‘A lot would have to go wrong for Biden to lose’: can Allan Lichtman predict the 2024 election?

The professor on his famous 13 ‘keys’ to the White House, a method for predicting election results that’s been right nine times out of 10

www.theguardian.com

e has been called the Nostradamus of US presidential elections. Allan Lichtman has correctly predicted the result of nine of the past 10 (and even the one that got away, in 2000, he insists was stolen from Al Gore). But now he is gearing up for perhaps his greatest challenge: Joe Biden v Donald Trump II.

Lichtman is a man of parts. The history professor has been teaching at American University in Washington for half a century. He is a former North American 3,000m steeplechase champion and, at 77 – the same age as Trump – aiming to compete in the next Senior Olympics. In 1981 he appeared on the TV quizshow Tic-Tac-Dough and won $110,000 in cash and prizes.

That same year he developed his now famous 13 keys to the White House, a method for predicting presidential election results that every four years tantalises the media, intrigues political operatives and provokes sniping from pollsters. Long before talk of the Steele dossier or Mueller investigation, it all began with a Russian reaching out across the cold war divide.

“I’d love to tell you I developed my system by ruining my eyes in the archives, by deep contemplation, but if I were to say that, to quote the late great Richard Nixon, that would be wrong,” Lichtman recalls from a book-crowded office on the AU campus. “Like so many discoveries, it was kind of serendipitous.”

The thirteen keys

The Keys to the White House is a checklist of thirteen true/false statements that pertain to the circumstances surrounding a presidential election. If five or fewer of the following statements are false, the incumbent party is predicted to win the election. If six or more are false, the incumbent party is predicted to lose.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Keys_to_the_White_House#cite_note-Lichtman_2020-12">[12]</a>

1. Party mandate: After the midterm elections, the incumbent party holds more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives than after the previous midterm elections.
2. No primary contest: There is no serious contest for the incumbent party nomination.
3. Incumbent seeking re-election: The incumbent party candidate is the sitting president.
4. No third party: There is no significant third party or independent campaign.
5. Strong short-term economy: The economy is not in recession during the election campaign.
6. Strong long-term economy: Real per capita economic growth during the term equals or exceeds mean growth during the previous two terms.
7. Major policy change: The incumbent administration effects major changes in national policy.
8. No social unrest: There is no sustained social unrest during the term.
9. No scandal: The incumbent administration is untainted by major scandal.
10. No foreign/military failure: The incumbent administration suffers no major failure in foreign or military affairs.
11. Major foreign/military success: The incumbent administration achieves a major success in foreign or military affairs.
12. Charismatic incumbent: The incumbent party candidate is charismatic or a national hero.
13. Uncharismatic challenger: The challenging party candidate is not charismatic or a national hero.

 

[Tigers!]

JD Vance, Senator from Ohio, named as VP for Trump's ticket.

JD Vance is better known as the RINO who demanded corporations be held accountable for damage to the environment*.

* - in one case in Ohio

While JD Vance has almost no experience in Congress, in the Senate, he has served the House (unbearded) since 2017.

Is experience in the Senate, Congress considered important as opposed to being in the House (hopefully you do not mean 'the big house')

 

[Tigers!]

Wondering...
Has any previously elected president, when running again, ever selected a different VP from the one with whom he won previously?

Grover Cleveland is the only president to serve non-consecutive terms. In his first term he had Aldai Stevenson and in his second Thomas Hendricks (who died in office and was not replaced).
Theodore Roosevelt unsuccessfully ran as a third party candidate in 1912 and had a different running mate. I do not know of any other presidents who tried.
In any case I do not see why, when running for a non-consecutive term rather than as an incumbent, the former president would not choose somebody else if that person is a better fit at the time. As others pointed out, many presidents switched veeps for different reasons, but at least when running for reelection one could see the value of continuity of the ticket and not change the running mate except for a good reason. When running for a non-consecutive term, that reason is no longer there.

I thought for sure you brain farted about Stevenson, but I now see he was the grandfather of the Adlai Stevenson who ran for Dem presidental nominee twice in the '50's.

That was my first thought too. That Aldai Stevenson had been around that long!

 

[pood]

Yep, Adlai’s grandfather was indeed vice president under Grover Cleveland, whose voice, incidentally, was recorded while he gave a speech somewhere The recording is poor, but he sounded like quite the stemwinder, with an accent and cadences a bit like that of FDR.

 

[pood]

It came out that ol’ Grover fathered an illegitimate child, which inspired the chant, “Maw, Maw, where’s my Paw? Off to the White House, haw, haw, haw!”

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

JD Vance, Senator from Ohio, named as VP for Trump's ticket.

JD Vance is better known as the RINO who demanded corporations be held accountable for damage to the environment*.

* - in one case in Ohio

While JD Vance has almost no experience in Congress, in the Senate, he has served the House (unbearded) since 2017.

Is experience in the Senate, Congress considered important as opposed to being in the House (hopefully you do not mean 'the big house')

Okay, is my joke not coming across?

 

[Tigers!]

JD Vance, Senator from Ohio, named as VP for Trump's ticket.

JD Vance is better known as the RINO who demanded corporations be held accountable for damage to the environment*.

* - in one case in Ohio

While JD Vance has almost no experience in Congress, in the Senate, he has served the House (unbearded) since 2017.

Is experience in the Senate, Congress considered important as opposed to being in the House (hopefully you do not mean 'the big house')

Okay, is my joke not coming across?

The joke was so subtle it went through to the keeper without being noticed (just a cricketing thought for you Jimmy)

 

[bilby]

It's starting to piss me off a bit that both Presidential candidates keep insisting over and over that we need to "unify the country..." while taking actions that do the exact opposite of that. Are we supposed to pretend we can't hear the sotto voce "[...under my rule]" that follows that statement?

I didn't think Trump liked Mexicans enough to name one as his VP, even one as reknowned as Sotto Voce.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I definitwly don't get Trump saying it, division is part of the platform.

 

[lpetrich]

Dissenting Republican delegates sign protest of Trump platform - The Washington Post - "At issue is the treatment of abortion in the new document, which dropped multiple previous policy proposals to limit the procedure."

“In no season, under no rationale spurred by the exigencies of a political moment, can or should we abandon the high principles that have created and sustained this party, with God’s grace, into a third century,” wrote the 19 dissenting delegates on the platform committee, including Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council. The letter is addressed to Republican National Committee chair Michael Whatley.

The dissenting delegates specifically protest the new platform’s failure to support a “human life amendment” to the U.S. Constitution that would give legal protections to fetuses and embryos, a provision that has been in past party platforms. They also protested the platform’s failure to explicitly “call for the Fourteenth Amendment’s protection application to children before birth.”

The platform committee wants to avoid the abortion issue because it has become a losing issue for the party, giving them several recent defeats. But antiabortion hardliners want the party to continue that course.

It seems like the Republican Party could go the way of the Federalist Party if it continues, doomed by support of an unpopular position.

Thousands of RNC protesters denounce Trump, Republican agenda in Milwaukee - The Washington Post

 

[lpetrich]

Opinion | Do Republicans realize their platform isn’t conservative? - The Washington Post

Brian Riedl is an economics writer and for six years was chief economist for then-Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio).

As a big-tent, small-government conservative who spent decades in the Republican Party, I take no joy in reporting that the new GOP platform for the Republican convention in Milwaukee, littered with verbatim, apocalyptic quotes from Donald Trump’s speeches and Truth Social, hardly reflects the unifying message of his post-assassination-attempt rhetoric. Instead, the platform rants that this is a nation “in SERIOUS DECLINE,” one “rocked by Raging Inflation, Open Borders, Rampant Crime.”

Like not mentioning budget deficits, which BR objected to.

My first thought is "Look in the mirror". Ever since Ronald Reagan, the Republican Party has claimed to opposed deficit spending while doing more of it than the Democrats.

The party promises to “quickly bring down prices” -- deflation instead of inflation, and BR said that tax cuts, spending expansions, mass deportations, "Buy American" requirements, and trade warring are all inflationary.

The party wants to close down the Department of Education, and also to micromanage public schools: "teacher tenure, salaries, the school curriculum, school discipline, even sports teams".

Also wanting the US to have an Iron Dome missile-defense system like what Israel has.

While tighter immigration controls are worthy of debate, the platform’s “Largest Deportation Program in American History” approach of undertaking a door-to-door roundup of up to 20 million illegal immigrants is totally infeasible and would lead only to chaos and cruelty.

The party wants to resurrect old laws for screening out revolutionaries, turning them into religious and political tests for immigrants.

Even U.S. citizens are targeted for their political views. The GOP platform calls for using government power to “fire Radical Left accreditors” of colleges and would require the U.S. military to “get woke Leftwing Democrats fired as soon as possible.”

The party also

pledges to “hold accountable those who have misused the power of Government to unjustly prosecute their Political Opponents.”

To do to them what they want to do to others.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

The platform committee wants to avoid the abortion issue because it has become a losing issue for the party, giving them several recent defeats. But antiabortion hardliners want the party to continue that course.

It seems like the Republican Party could go the way of the Federalist Party if it continues, doomed by support of an unpopular position.

Thousands of RNC protesters denounce Trump, Republican agenda in Milwaukee - The Washington Post

I don't get the anti-abortion folks getting upset. This is about as trust worthy as Obama saying he was against Gay Marriage. This is a platform, not a legally binding contract. But I appreciate them being upset and being vocal about it and reminding people the GOP killed Roe v Wade.

 

[lpetrich]

Anti-abortion advocates drop platform fight after Trump assassination attempt - Live Updates - POLITICO - "Delegates who were mad with the watered-down platform had considered trying to trigger a floor fight."

The language adopted at the platform committee’s meeting last week appeased most anti-abortion advocates who believe the federal government should play a role in setting abortion policy by gesturing to the 14th Amendment, which conservatives have long argued protects life starting at conception. Many also see a role for federal action in the text’s call to oppose “late-term abortion.”

Even if it wasn't good enough for hardline antiabortionists, who want a "human life amendment".

The group also raised concerns about how the platform was approved, with the 16-page document drafted in secret by the Trump campaign and quickly distributed to the committee and approved behind closed doors last week.

 

[lpetrich]

After skipping it in 2020, Republican Party releases 2024 platform : NPR

Dedicated to the "To the Forgotten Men and Women of America," the Republican Party's 2024 platform reads like the transcript of a Trump rally speech.

The platform starts with 20 promises, largely pulling from the tag lines of the former president, including “STOP THE MIGRANT INVASION” and the simplistic “END INFLATION.” Trump’s campaign sought to pare down the party platform.

... In the entire platform, the word appears just once, in a statement about the party's dedication to protecting "the issue of life." It reads: "We will oppose Late Term Abortion."

Not enough for antiabortion hardliners.

Other social issues appear more frequently, including promises related to limiting federal funding for schools teaching so-called Critical Race Theory and keeping "men out of women's sports."

Those 20 promises:

1. SEAL THE BORDER, AND STOP THE MIGRANT INVASION
2. CARRY OUT THE LARGEST DEPORTATION OPERATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY
3. END INFLATION, AND MAKE AMERICA AFFORDABLE AGAIN
4. MAKE AMERICA THE DOMINANT ENERGY PRODUCER IN THE WORLD, BY FAR!
5. STOP OUTSOURCING, AND TURN THE UNITED STATES INTO A MANUFACTURING SUPERPOWER
6. LARGE TAX CUTS FOR WORKERS, AND NO TAX ON TIPS!
7. DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION, OUR BILL OF RIGHTS, AND OUR FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS, INCLUDING FREEDOM OF SPEECH, FREEDOM OF RELIGION, AND THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS
8. PREVENT WORLD WAR THREE, RESTORE PEACE IN EUROPE AND IN THE MIDDLE EAST, AND BUILD A GREAT IRON DOME MISSILE DEFENSE SHIELD OVER OUR ENTIRE COUNTRY -- ALL MADE IN AMERICA
9. END THE WEAPONIZATION OF GOVERNMENT AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
10. STOP THE MIGRANT CRIME EPIDEMIC, DEMOLISH THE FOREIGN DRUG CARTELS, CRUSH GANG VIOLENCE, AND LOCK UP VIOLENT OFFENDERS
11. REBUILD OUR CITIES, INCLUDING WASHINGTON DC, MAKING THEM SAFE, CLEAN, AND BEAUTIFUL AGAIN.
12. STRENGTHEN AND MODERNIZE OUR MILITARY, MAKING IT, WITHOUT QUESTION, THE STRONGEST AND MOST POWERFUL IN THE WORLD
13. KEEP THE U.S. DOLLAR AS THE WORLD’S RESERVE CURRENCY
14. FIGHT FOR AND PROTECT SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE WITH NO CUTS, INCLUDING NO CHANGES TO THE RETIREMENT AGE
15. CANCEL THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE MANDATE AND CUT COSTLY AND BURDENSOME REGULATIONS
16. CUT FEDERAL FUNDING FOR ANY SCHOOL PUSHING CRITICAL RACE THEORY, RADICAL GENDER IDEOLOGY, AND OTHER INAPPROPRIATE RACIAL, SEXUAL, OR POLITICAL CONTENT ON OUR CHILDREN
17. KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS
18. DEPORT PRO-HAMAS RADICALS AND MAKE OUR COLLEGE CAMPUSES SAFE AND PATRIOTIC AGAIN
19. SECURE OUR ELECTIONS, INCLUDING SAME DAY VOTING, VOTER IDENTIFICATION, PAPER BALLOTS, AND PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP
20. UNITE OUR COUNTRY BY BRINGING IT TO NEW AND RECORD LEVELS OF SUCCESS

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

After skipping it in 2020, Republican Party releases 2024 platform : NPR

Dedicated to the "To the Forgotten Men and Women of America," the Republican Party's 2024 platform reads like the transcript of a Trump rally speech.

The platform starts with 20 promises, largely pulling from the tag lines of the former president, including “STOP THE MIGRANT INVASION” and the simplistic “END INFLATION.” Trump’s campaign sought to pare down the party platform.

... In the entire platform, the word appears just once, in a statement about the party's dedication to protecting "the issue of life." It reads: "We will oppose Late Term Abortion."

Not enough for antiabortion hardliners.

Other social issues appear more frequently, including promises related to limiting federal funding for schools teaching so-called Critical Race Theory and keeping "men out of women's sports."

Those 20 promises:

1. SEAL THE BORDER, AND STOP THE MIGRANT INVASION
2. CARRY OUT THE LARGEST DEPORTATION OPERATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY
3. END INFLATION, AND MAKE AMERICA AFFORDABLE AGAIN
4. MAKE AMERICA THE DOMINANT ENERGY PRODUCER IN THE WORLD, BY FAR!
5. STOP OUTSOURCING, AND TURN THE UNITED STATES INTO A MANUFACTURING SUPERPOWER
6. LARGE TAX CUTS FOR WORKERS, AND NO TAX ON TIPS!
7. DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION, OUR BILL OF RIGHTS, AND OUR FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS, INCLUDING FREEDOM OF SPEECH, FREEDOM OF RELIGION, AND THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS
8. PREVENT WORLD WAR THREE, RESTORE PEACE IN EUROPE AND IN THE MIDDLE EAST, AND BUILD A GREAT IRON DOME MISSILE DEFENSE SHIELD OVER OUR ENTIRE COUNTRY -- ALL MADE IN AMERICA
9. END THE WEAPONIZATION OF GOVERNMENT AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
10. STOP THE MIGRANT CRIME EPIDEMIC, DEMOLISH THE FOREIGN DRUG CARTELS, CRUSH GANG VIOLENCE, AND LOCK UP VIOLENT OFFENDERS
11. REBUILD OUR CITIES, INCLUDING WASHINGTON DC, MAKING THEM SAFE, CLEAN, AND BEAUTIFUL AGAIN.
12. STRENGTHEN AND MODERNIZE OUR MILITARY, MAKING IT, WITHOUT QUESTION, THE STRONGEST AND MOST POWERFUL IN THE WORLD
13. KEEP THE U.S. DOLLAR AS THE WORLD’S RESERVE CURRENCY
14. FIGHT FOR AND PROTECT SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE WITH NO CUTS, INCLUDING NO CHANGES TO THE RETIREMENT AGE
15. CANCEL THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE MANDATE AND CUT COSTLY AND BURDENSOME REGULATIONS
16. CUT FEDERAL FUNDING FOR ANY SCHOOL PUSHING CRITICAL RACE THEORY, RADICAL GENDER IDEOLOGY, AND OTHER INAPPROPRIATE RACIAL, SEXUAL, OR POLITICAL CONTENT ON OUR CHILDREN
17. KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS
18. DEPORT PRO-HAMAS RADICALS AND MAKE OUR COLLEGE CAMPUSES SAFE AND PATRIOTIC AGAIN
19. SECURE OUR ELECTIONS, INCLUDING SAME DAY VOTING, VOTER IDENTIFICATION, PAPER BALLOTS, AND PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP
20. UNITE OUR COUNTRY BY BRINGING IT TO NEW AND RECORD LEVELS OF SUCCESS

1. SEAL THE BORDER, AND STOP THE MIGRANT INVASION
Seals are not enough, we need walruses and polar bears!

2. CARRY OUT THE LARGEST DEPORTATION OPERATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY
Of who?

3. END INFLATION, AND MAKE AMERICA AFFORDABLE AGAIN
So... Trump is going to force the Fed to raise interest rates and crash the economy.

4. MAKE AMERICA THE DOMINANT ENERGY PRODUCER IN THE WORLD, BY FAR!
Near, adjacent, close by, within viewing distance... not enough!

5. STOP OUTSOURCING, AND TURN THE UNITED STATES INTO A MANUFACTURING SUPERPOWER
*spit take*

6. LARGE TAX CUTS FOR WORKERS, AND NO TAX ON TIPS!
50% of the workforce already doesn't pay income tax. That was a rallying cry of conservatives 10 years ago.

7. DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION, OUR BILL OF RIGHTS, AND OUR FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS, INCLUDING FREEDOM OF SPEECH, FREEDOM OF RELIGION, AND THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS
That is a long winded way of saying we should allow religiously based discrimination.

8. PREVENT WORLD WAR THREE, RESTORE PEACE IN EUROPE AND IN THE MIDDLE EAST, AND BUILD A GREAT IRON DOME MISSILE DEFENSE SHIELD OVER OUR ENTIRE COUNTRY -- ALL MADE IN AMERICA
So give Ukraine to Russia and an iron dome defense system to protect from projectiles from Canada?

9. END THE WEAPONIZATION OF GOVERNMENT AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
Umm... about Platform Item Number 2, a couple comments.

10. STOP THE MIGRANT CRIME EPIDEMIC, DEMOLISH THE FOREIGN DRUG CARTELS, CRUSH GANG VIOLENCE, AND LOCK UP VIOLENT OFFENDERS
Did he just watch Clear and Present Danger? Shall we crush the IRA as well, and look for a sub that uses magnetic propulsion?

11. REBUILD OUR CITIES, INCLUDING WASHINGTON DC, MAKING THEM SAFE, CLEAN, AND BEAUTIFUL AGAIN.
What is this the 1970s? Urban renewal is a thing in the Midwest already.

12. STRENGTHEN AND MODERNIZE OUR MILITARY, MAKING IT, WITHOUT QUESTION, THE STRONGEST AND MOST POWERFUL IN THE WORLD
We could get rid of our entire military and our nuclear arsenal would still tower over the globe.

13. KEEP THE U.S. DOLLAR AS THE WORLD’S RESERVE CURRENCY
Was this in doubt? Are the Democrats trying to use the Euro?

14. FIGHT FOR AND PROTECT SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE WITH NO CUTS, INCLUDING NO CHANGES TO THE RETIREMENT AGE
Uh huh!

15. CANCEL THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE MANDATE AND CUT COSTLY AND BURDENSOME REGULATIONS
Roll coal!

16. CUT FEDERAL FUNDING FOR ANY SCHOOL PUSHING CRITICAL RACE THEORY, RADICAL GENDER IDEOLOGY, AND OTHER INAPPROPRIATE RACIAL, SEXUAL, OR POLITICAL CONTENT ON OUR CHILDREN
No more money for Religious Private Schools then.

17. KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS
Finally, something relevant to women! I mean reproductive rights are important too, but we must save the WNBA from having men in it.

18. DEPORT PRO-HAMAS RADICALS AND MAKE OUR COLLEGE CAMPUSES SAFE AND PATRIOTIC AGAIN
We are going to make campuses patriotic again, by removing critical thinking and freethought. Campuses are not a place to learn critical thinking!

19. SECURE OUR ELECTIONS, INCLUDING SAME DAY VOTING, VOTER IDENTIFICATION, PAPER BALLOTS, AND PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP
This would require a constitutional amendment!

20. UNITE OUR COUNTRY BY BRINGING IT TO NEW AND RECORD LEVELS OF SUCCESS
Well, good luck with that. We had the 50s and 90s. You'll need a new tech (or a global war decimating Europe) to do that again.

 

[lpetrich]

Biden’s Wins on X: "BREAKING: President Biden just announced his first 100 days plan when reelected. He will codify Roe v. Wade into law, sign the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, and expand and strengthen Social Security and Medicare. Retweet so all Americans see this. (vid link)" / X
Also the pro-labor-union PRO Act and the expanded child tax credit.

All that will depend on having majorities in the House and the Senate, and will also depend on the Senate weakening or ending its Taste-of-Armageddon filibuster. That's what kept the JLVR Act and the PRO Act from being passed the first time around.

 

[bilby]

Also wanting the US to have an Iron Dome missile-defense system like what Israel has.

Which would be an excellent and not at all wasteful use of public funds, what with the USA being a small and geographically compact nation, with many hostile neighbours who frequently fire missiles at her.

Remind me, how many missile attacks has the USA endured? Just an estimate to the nearest round number will suffice.

 

[bilby]

After skipping it in 2020, Republican Party releases 2024 platform : NPR

Dedicated to the "To the Forgotten Men and Women of America," the Republican Party's 2024 platform reads like the transcript of a Trump rally speech.

The platform starts with 20 promises, largely pulling from the tag lines of the former president, including “STOP THE MIGRANT INVASION” and the simplistic “END INFLATION.” Trump’s campaign sought to pare down the party platform.

... In the entire platform, the word appears just once, in a statement about the party's dedication to protecting "the issue of life." It reads: "We will oppose Late Term Abortion."

Not enough for antiabortion hardliners.

Other social issues appear more frequently, including promises related to limiting federal funding for schools teaching so-called Critical Race Theory and keeping "men out of women's sports."

Those 20 promises:

1. SEAL THE BORDER, AND STOP THE MIGRANT INVASION
2. CARRY OUT THE LARGEST DEPORTATION OPERATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY
3. END INFLATION, AND MAKE AMERICA AFFORDABLE AGAIN
4. MAKE AMERICA THE DOMINANT ENERGY PRODUCER IN THE WORLD, BY FAR!
5. STOP OUTSOURCING, AND TURN THE UNITED STATES INTO A MANUFACTURING SUPERPOWER
6. LARGE TAX CUTS FOR WORKERS, AND NO TAX ON TIPS!
7. DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION, OUR BILL OF RIGHTS, AND OUR FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS, INCLUDING FREEDOM OF SPEECH, FREEDOM OF RELIGION, AND THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS
8. PREVENT WORLD WAR THREE, RESTORE PEACE IN EUROPE AND IN THE MIDDLE EAST, AND BUILD A GREAT IRON DOME MISSILE DEFENSE SHIELD OVER OUR ENTIRE COUNTRY -- ALL MADE IN AMERICA
9. END THE WEAPONIZATION OF GOVERNMENT AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
10. STOP THE MIGRANT CRIME EPIDEMIC, DEMOLISH THE FOREIGN DRUG CARTELS, CRUSH GANG VIOLENCE, AND LOCK UP VIOLENT OFFENDERS
11. REBUILD OUR CITIES, INCLUDING WASHINGTON DC, MAKING THEM SAFE, CLEAN, AND BEAUTIFUL AGAIN.
12. STRENGTHEN AND MODERNIZE OUR MILITARY, MAKING IT, WITHOUT QUESTION, THE STRONGEST AND MOST POWERFUL IN THE WORLD
13. KEEP THE U.S. DOLLAR AS THE WORLD’S RESERVE CURRENCY
14. FIGHT FOR AND PROTECT SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE WITH NO CUTS, INCLUDING NO CHANGES TO THE RETIREMENT AGE
15. CANCEL THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE MANDATE AND CUT COSTLY AND BURDENSOME REGULATIONS
16. CUT FEDERAL FUNDING FOR ANY SCHOOL PUSHING CRITICAL RACE THEORY, RADICAL GENDER IDEOLOGY, AND OTHER INAPPROPRIATE RACIAL, SEXUAL, OR POLITICAL CONTENT ON OUR CHILDREN
17. KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS
18. DEPORT PRO-HAMAS RADICALS AND MAKE OUR COLLEGE CAMPUSES SAFE AND PATRIOTIC AGAIN
19. SECURE OUR ELECTIONS, INCLUDING SAME DAY VOTING, VOTER IDENTIFICATION, PAPER BALLOTS, AND PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP
20. UNITE OUR COUNTRY BY BRINGING IT TO NEW AND RECORD LEVELS OF SUCCESS

Nothing says "Sane, reasonable, and carefully considered political platform", like the use of CAPS LOCK.

 

[Elixir]

Nothing says "economic ignorance" like promising to end inflation.

But hey! Other than deportees, gangs, cartels, pro-Hamas radicals, promoters of "inappropriate political content" and, uh... "other offenders" (we'll tell you later),
EVERYONE GETS A PONY!!!