It may feel surreal, but tens of millions of Americans have already voted and the wild 2024 presidential campaign comes to an end in days. The DMZ America podcast, which began at the beginning of the Biden Administration, reviews how we’ve arrived at this unexpected contest between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist David Horsey, formerly of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, joins DMZ co-hosts and cartoonist pals Ted Rall (from the Left) and Scott Stantis (from the Right) to analyze the closing minutes of the race and make their predictions.
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Twain’s line about preserving the unities comes to mind. Trump missed getting his ticket punched by a fraction of an inch-second. That doesn’t happen just so Trump can lose in a vote a month or so later. That’s not how it ever goes.. Tie that in with the way democrats can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and a Trump victory seems about as inevitable as Hillary wasn’t.
I will be shocked if this thing gets called on Election Night, the Day After Election Night, The Thursday of Election Week, etc. Will it be a full-blown “the MAGA officials get a state’s electors disqualified and the whole thing goes to the House of Representatives in January, making the whole exercise pointless”? (If it does, expect Biden to be ordered to resign so that Harris can get the asterisked “first girrrl president” in the history books.)
More likely, I suspect the democrats will lose it by just a few electoral votes. Harris will win the popular vote, enabling the low-intelligence voters on the left to act like she won because of it.
In either case, win or lose, Trump has probably managed his main goal — not go to prison. Harris and the dems — espacially facing the Republican-controlled Senate and/or House — will almost certainly “turn the page” and let him skate with slaps on the wrist rather than continue to stand on 1/3 of the spotlight as they’re turned into a pack of geldings by the Republicans.