Well of course you think that, just as I think the same about your bench.
If you liked any of those people you wouldn't be a hard core Republican.
I personally think
a) Joe can win again, against Trump or DeSantis, though I would prefer he didn't run.
b) Buttigieg or Klobuchar or Gretchen Whitmer or Kamala Harris could all win against Trump or DeSantis (I recently read a Harris/DeSantis poll that surprised me in that she led him 44 to 41 IIRC, otherwise I would have excluded her.).
c) if Fetterman trounces OZ as I expect him to he's suddenly in the running as well. A one-term senator even ion the middle of that term has enough gravitas to win in a world where a reality TV star has very recently gotten the job.
Big John is a BIG personality, BIG charisma guy who has some appeal for that blue collar white voter all the centrists think we need to win, although I doubt he would carry a state Joe didn't carry. But that's enough to win 308-232, 292-248 if he drops Georgia and keeps the rest, as I expect he would.
(He would be especially effective, I think, in keeping the Rust Belt firewall that Hillary lost and Biden reclaimed: PA, MI, WI)
Who is the Republican bench? I see two guys, Trump and a less charismatic (though smarter) Trump-like figure, DeSantis. I wouldn't be dismissing our bench if I had yours.
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Posted: 07/26/2022 at 4:59PM