January Fools: Part VI - Will America Be Fooled Again in 2024?

  

PART VI – TRUMP IS STILL DANGEROUS 

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"America's democracy was almost stolen from her." 

Judge J. Michael Luttig, speaking of events on January 6.

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This part of the story of our country remains to be written, and the blogger will continue to gather evidence as time and motivation allow. The key question being: Could Ex-President Blubber rise again from the political grave? 

It seems he could. 

Don't do it Donald! Don't grab her....

We know Mike Lindell, the MyPillow dope, and the QAnon tribe still believe in the Orange God of Mar-a-Lago. 

In June 2022, we know Mr. Blubber is still claiming he won the last election, even though his closest advisors now admit they knew he never did.

 

Still, he could return in 2024. On June 15, this blogger checks recent polls. President Biden’s approval ratings are in the tank. (Unlike Lindell or Trump, this blogger has no problem facing unpleasant truths.) 

If the election were held today, polls show Trump would probably win a rematch against Joe Biden. 

For only the second time in American history, then, we’d have a maniac plunked down behind the Resolute Desk. 

A check of recent polls (May and June) shows Mr. Biden’s average approval rating at 38.7 percent, his disapproval rating at 54.4 percent. 

Small favors, really, but at least he has been mature enough not to howl about “rigged polls,” or blame his low numbers on “Enemies of the People,” working for the free press. You know. Like Trump. 

Biden's approval numbers are terrible.

What else is worth noting today? This blogger believes in polls, generally, and when averaged, they have rarely been wrong. In the race for an open U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania, Fetterman, the Democrat, vs. Oz, the Republican, the Democrat holds a 9-point lead. 

In the battle for a U.S. Senate seat in North Carolina, Beasley vs Budd, Beasley, the Democrat is up by four points. 

Or down 2; it depends on the poll. 

Interestingly enough, polls in Utah show that Evan McMullin, former Republican (famous for ratting out current House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, when, in 2016, McCarthy said he believed there were two people Putin paid – one of them being Donald J. Trump), now an independent running for U.S. Senate, might have a shot at ousting the incumbent – which would be kind of fun. 

In Ohio, where the blogger resides, J.D. Vance leads Tim Ryan, the Democrat, by 3 points in the only poll taken so far. Both men seem to understand the average American worker better than most, which this blogger considers good. Vance, of course, once said he’d have to think twice about voting for Hillary Clinton, because he didn’t like Trump. In fact, in 2016, he voted for McMullin, running as an independent, instead.

 

Five different polls show Gretchen Whitmer, the current Democratic governor of Michigan (once labeled “Half-Whitmer” by then-President Trump) with at least a 34-point lead vs. assorted challengers on the right. Ryan Kelly, thought to have perhaps the “best” chance of beating her in November, was recently arrested for his role in the January 6, 2021, attack on Capitol Hill. 

In Georgia, polls show that Trump could take the state (for real this time), as he sports a 7-point lead in a hypothetical matchup with the current President of the United States. Joe Biden, I mean. 

You have to remind the QAnon bunch occasionally who the actual president really is. 

In generic ballot polls (where voters are asked which party they would like to control Congress after the next election), Republican have an average 3.8-point lead. 

As for Congress itself, on June 15, 2022, that august body has an average approval rating of 21.6 percent. For a brief period earlier this year (March-August) our lawmakers managed to boost their approval ratings into the 30s, peaking at 36.3 percent on May 8. Previous to that, the last time Congress scored as high as the 30s, was 30.4 percent…on August 29, 2009.