As we approach the First Presidential Debate, a pivotal event less than two weeks away, we find ourselves in the middle of June with a nation in disarray. This condition is primarily a result of an administration on its last legs, leaving behind a legacy of significant failures. The abrupt Afgan pullout has emboldened our adversaries, leading to ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, all due to our reluctance to confront the wrongdoers.

Overspending has resulted in the highest inflation in forty years. Illegal entrants overrun our borders, and shipping them across the nation is bankrupting many communities. No one feels safe in many of our greatest cities, and antisemitism runs rampant in Universities and on city streets.

When Joe Biden steps into the debate room, it will be his swan song. Even if he tries to project energy and vigor to dispel the notion that he’s a political corpse, it won’t hide that his record is one that only our worst president, James Buchanan, would applaud. The responsibility for these failures is clear, and it’s a burden he carries with him, like a second skin.

Confirmation of Biden’s political demise will come right after the Debate. Typically, even if a Democratic candidate has a horrible night, the legacy media will loudly applaud the performance while in unison declaring the Republican sucked. This time, they’ll be highly critical and concerned. Joe did his best, but he didn’t have it. If he’s this bad now, he’ll only get worse.

Chances are high Joe is in for a stormy debate night. Defending his record of failures is bad enough, but his DOJ handed Trump a club to beat him. By entering Hunter Biden’s laptop into evidence in the gun trial, they verified its contents for all to see.

In the last Trump-Biden Debate in 2020, Biden parried Trump’s attempt to bring up the laptop and its damning information on the Biden influence peddling business by pointing to a letter signed by 51 former senior intelligence community members claiming “it had all the earmarks of Russian disinformation.” It turns out that Biden’s then-top aide and present Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, was behind this misleading letter. Biden had to know he was deceiving the public, but it was all about winning. This time around, he’ll have no place to hide. Trump has every reason to make sure of that.

After the Debate, the replacement of Joe and Kamala will be in full swing in July. The plan was always to ensure Donald Trump won the Republican nomination. Unlike Nikki Haley or Ron DeSantis, the former president has never polled above 50%, usually topping around forty-six percent. Lawfare, especially Alvin Bragg’s New York paperwork case, made Trump a sympathetic figure to the Republican base. Keeping him constantly in the limelight crowded out the more robust competitors. It worked.  

When facing the feeblest candidate, you won’t win the election when your incumbent is weaker. Joe Biden was never the Democrats’ idea of a winning candidate. He was just the best available at the time. Now, an infirm octogenarian saddled with a horrible record, who at best would be a lame duck, Biden is a goner. He always was. I always said this was the plan.

After Democratic angst over Joe’s fitness and baggage has risen to crisis levels, James E. Clyburn and other party luminaries will break the retirement news to the President and Kamala Harris. The South Carolina Representative saved Joe Biden in 2020, and as the Black icon, he has to be the one to tell them it’s time to get off the train with all their baggage.

Suppose Barack Obama isn’t among the group binging the bad news to Joe. In that case, we’ll know Michelle will be called on to “bring the nation together.” He can’t appear to dump Biden in favor of his wife.

Nominated by acclimation, Michelle Obama will give a mostly unifying speech, but with a “Sister Soyloya Moment” chastising the party’s far-left progressives, especially over antisemitism. Emulating Bill Clinton’s winning move to the center.

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro will likely join her on the ticket as winning that state is necessary for the Democrats to win.  

This plan always struck me as a winner, with the bonus of likely eight years instead of Biden being a lame duck. However, the Democrats may have made a mistake that could still put Trump back in the White House. As I previously pointed out, the Judge in Bragg’s New York Porn Star Case was given a golden opportunity with a recent appellate decision barring extraneous prejudicial information, to declare a mistrial and close down an awful trial.

By allowing a convoluted verdict, Republicans rallied around

Trump, accompanied by an outpouring of cash. Lawfare won until Trump nailed down the nomination, but it’s a loser now. It takes a lot to make Donald Trump a sympathetic figure, but Democrats have managed to do it.

Even a ticket change-out at the Democratic convention doesn’t necessarily mean a Democratic victory. The Republicans have coalesced around Trump, and they brought their checkbooks. As independents become more aware of how wrong the New York verdict is, they may follow.

We will only have a short wait till we find out if I’m on to something or all wet.