The Democratic National Convention kicked off on Monday, 19 August in Chicago, Illinois. In a historic coincidence, the last time an incumbent President dropped out of his re-election race, Lyndon B. Johnson also from the Democratic Party in 1968, the DNC was held in the same city.
Then, the Convention was marred by a wave of anti-Vietnam War protests. This year, the Democrats are experiencing something very similar again, with thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators trying to rain on the party’s parade for its support for Israel.
And, amidst all that, the Labor Department has just announced that it is revising its jobs report for March 2024. As it turned out, the US economy added 818,000 fewer new jobs than originally reported. This comes in the wake of a stock market crash earlier this month, when rising unemployment figures sent stock prices into free fall. That event coincided with Kamala Harris’ rise in the polls. However, the markets have recovered since.
If we consider the attempted assassination on Donald Trump’s life last month, only a few days before the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
that is an awful lot of rare historic events for one election cycle.
Most of which do not favour the incumbent party. Nothing is a better testament to that than the fact that this week in Chicago it will be Vice President Kamala Harris—a 5’4 black lady who briefly came out to scream into a microphone at the opening day of the Convention already—who accepts the nomination, and not the sitting president, Joe Biden. That is despite President Biden, as billionaire Elon Musk pointed out in a post on his own social media platform X, having been very adamant about staying in the race until just a month ago.
In fact, he had to be publicly pressured by his own party to step down since even Democrats were of the opinion that he had no realistic chance to beat Former President Trump in November. His latest approval rating by Gallup for July was at just 36 per cent.
It was more than just his old age and—to put it mildly—lack of eloquence that made him so unpopular with voters. People were also frustrated with the rising prices, stagnant wages, high interest rates, and the incoming wave of illegal immigrants under his administration.
‘It is telling that they have old Scranton Joe the night one slot, when they knew no one was watching. It’s almost as if he hasn’t been president for quite some time,’ New York Young Republican Club President Gavin Wax told our site about President Biden’s appearance at the ongoing Democratic Convention.
‘The charade we’re seeing in Chicago this week is a reminder of the stark choice American voters have before them this fall:
a wildly successful president in Donald J. Trump, who presided over a booming economy and a impenetrable southern border, or a continuation of the failure of the Obama/Biden years, replete with vacuous rhetoric, astronomical prices at the grocery store and gas pump, and unfettered illegal immigration. Don’t be gaslit by the likes of Tim Walz, with his repugnant record of blatant fabrication and lies or Kamala, whom no one ever voted for. TRUMP/Vance 2024,’ he elaborated.
And the unusual twists and turns just do not seem to end this year: Robert F. Kennedy Jr, a former Democrat who is running as an independent candidate for President, is reportedly about to drop out of the race and endorse President Trump. While polling data suggested that he took away more voters from President Biden than Trump, that has changed since the incumbent President stepped down from the race. Recent polls suggest that President Trump is performing better head-to-head against Harris than when RFK Jr is also included.
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