But Will It Matter?

     By now you’ve heard: Joe Biden has announced that he will end his campaign for a second term as president. He’s also endorsed Kamala Harris as his choice to assume the nomination… but that will require the consent of the Democrat National Convention. Whatever the Convention may decide, the scramble for money and endorsements begins now.

     Will it matter? Harris polls even worse against Trump than did Biden. Yes, she’s a woman, and of darker skin tone at that. I can’t see that having her at the top of the ticket will make the amount of vote fraud required to overcome Trump’s totals any less. I could be wrong, of course – women have displayed a preference for female candidates to office, and though Harris isn’t a Negro, her dark complexion might win her some votes from American Negroes. We’ll see in November.

     The interesting aspect of Biden’s decision will be whether it affects Trump’s campaign tactics and rhetoric. I hope it doesn’t. Trump has solid leads on the issues that matter most to Americans today. Adulterating those issues with personal attacks on the new nominee doesn’t seem like a winning tactic. Depending the specifics of such attacks, media exploitation of them could prove very damaging.

     So, on to the convention. Will it be Harris? Or Gavin Newsom, or Gretchen Whitmer? Or the “mighty” Hillary Clinton? Who will buy – or buy off – whom, and at what price? What sort of floor jockeying can we expect to dominate the events in Chicago come August? Will the protests and violence expected to adorn the streets outside the Convention matter at all?

     Time to invest in popcorn and Cheez Doodles^®.