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In just a few weeks, a former U.S. president was shot, then nominated as his party’s presidential candidate, just before the sitting U.S. president dropped out of the reelection race. While some Americans describe all this as a “complete circus,” polls suggest that with the president’s replacement virtually set, November’s race will be very tight.
Watch the video above as Straight Arrow News contributor Newt Gingrich recounts one of the strangest few weeks in his entire career of working in — and studying — politics.
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The following is an excerpt from the above video:
And so for about an hour, there was talk about Biden and what was Biden going to do, and what did all this mean and how to change the campaign. And then Biden endorsed Kamala Harris, his vice president, and suddenly there’s a surge towards Kamala Harris. And she becomes virtually the inevitable Democratic nominee, raises a huge amount of money in a couple of days, partly I think out of just relief from Democrats who knew that you couldn’t go into the fall campaign with President Biden less and less capable cognitively, and with President Trump, clearly so much more aggressive, and so much more physically capable.
This has been kind of the wildest up and down, it’s like riding a wild river. Every time you’d look around, something new and different would be happening. So I think we’re going to be in for a very interesting, very intense and very competitive presidential campaign. And I think it’ll be a significant question of who defines who. Does Trump do a better, more effective job of defining Vice President Harris as a San Francisco radical? Or does she do a better job of defining Trump as somebody who is so tumultuous that you don’t want to spend four more years of this? This is going to be a campaign for the ages.
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