Source:Michael Smerconish talking about the news stories that he’s interested in.

Source:The New Democrat

“Today’s Headlines from Smerconish.com – Friday, May 24th 2024”

From Michael Smerconish

As I wrote about Robert F. Kennedy JR. back in March:

“As an at best Independent Democrat at this point, whose not in love with the Democratic Party politically, or really anything else, for that matter, I would love to see Robert F. Kennedy JR. run for President as a Libertarian. Why? Because it would just confirm what I, what this blog, and what a lot of other Democrats believe about RFK JR. that he’s simply a MAGA man, who at the very least doesn’t want Joe Biden to be reelected and perhaps even wants Donald Trump back in The White House, where all their MAGA conspiracy theories and avenues to financially profit for them, would open up.”

From The New Democrat

There are 3 main roadblocks that are and could keep Donald J. Trump from getting back to The White House. (Hell, I wish there were 100, especially with all the traffic and people in Washington)

The 1st roadblock would be Defendant Don getting convicted of felonies next week in Manhattan. Perhaps as many 1-4 Republicans, not just Democrats and Independents, but 1-4 Republicans don’t want, or won’t vote for a convicted felon for President of the United States. If there’s a large turnout for President this year, losing 10% of the Republican Party, would cost Donald Trump the presidency in 2024. Which is about the same percentage that he lost in 2020, especially in Arizona, Georgia, and perhaps Wisconsin as well.

As my colleague Kire Schneider wrote about Nikki Haley yesterday: 

“But as all the Republicans on this post have already said, Nikki Haley voters, are just people who voted against Donald Trump. And I would add they are not members of her political fan club. Unlike Trump, she doesn’t have her own political cult.”

From The New Democrat

Nikki Haley’s voters are not Nikki Haley’s voters. Which I know sounds like a car is not a car, a house is not a house, etc. But what that means is they didn’t vote for her by and large (exceptions to every rule) because they love Nikki Haley. They voted for her because she’s a normal Republican (at least pre-Donald Trump) and she was running against Donald Trump.

The Republicans who voted for Nikki Haley this year, are center-right, fiscally and economically conservative, hawkish, pro-Constitution, rule of law, Republican voters. Not people who want to take America back to the 1950s and 40s, where it seemed very unlikely that a woman of any background, or any minority, would ever even be thinking about running for President of the United States. Nikki Haley voters are traditional, center-right, Republican voters, who many cases voted for Joe Biden for President in 2020 and did their part in costing then President Trump reelection.

I’ve already touched on Robert F. Kennedy JR. But as Michael Smerconish said so himself (maybe he should be working for the Kennedy Campaign with all the free publicity that he gives him on his show) both Bob Kennedy and Don Trump will be at the Libertarian Party convention this weekend.

RFK and DJT are going after the same voters. We’re talking about anti-government, conspiracy minded people, who in some cases have Libertarian leanings, but in many more cases have MAGA leanings. Where at least the militants in the MAGA movement, want to take down the current U.S. Government and replace it with their own nationalistic form of government, that would be there to serve Donald J. Trump’s every need and “take back America” to give it back to the “real Americans”, as they see themselves.

Bob Kennedy might try to run as some whacked-out, hippie revolutionary, whose still addicted to drugs and has lost more brain cells and has more brain damage that he’s even admitted too, and make Bernie and Liz, along with Alex Cortez, and the rest of the so-called Squad in the House, and Jill Stein even, look like flaming moderates. And he would do that just to take votes away from Joe Biden, if that’s the campaign that he runs. But he’s a MAGA man. He”ll be at the Libertarian Convention, perhaps even seeking their nomination. Not at the Green Party Convention going after the hippie-lefty vote for President.