The “Who is running in 2024?” tea leaves thread

[Torie]

The Guardian has an "interesting" piece on Tucker Carlson. I had no idea he was flirting with the idea or in Iowa until I dropped by the Guardian website. From there you can click on an NYT article that does a  deep dive into Carlson's mining of white fear for ratings and profits. Nothing else boosted his ratings, and Fox's profits, with nearly as much efficacy, as the threat people of color pose to the American dream.

Oh yeah, of course he is saying he won't run. He will keep saying that and raking in the big bucks until he announces.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/16/tucker-carlson-family-leadership-summit-president

[Torie]

Somebody is running for Vice President already.

https://people.com/politics/kari-lake-interested-donald-trump-running-mate-source-says/

[Torie]

This article seems to have all the POTUS prospect names, both plausible and semi-plausible, in one place. I know it sounds hackish, but I find the Dem names in general more plausible than the Pub names, although some like Tim Scott are untested, in the sense of having had to endure a trial by combat under the klieg lights. As to that certain little Napoleon and perceived Pub golden boy, cast as the white knight from Camelot with his lance prepared and ready to affix Trump’s head at its point, in case you missed it like I did, DeSantis demagogued big time and erroneously about covid vax booster shots being medically worthless.

https://www.news4jax.com/news/2022/07/28/fact-checking-claim-by-gov-ron-desantis-are-you-more-likely-to-get-covid-19-if-youve-had-multiple-booster-shots/


That is very disappointing and concerning. He may not be quite the pathological liar Trump is, but I consider that kind of conduct disqualifying myself. Making sh*t up like that that endangers the public welfare makes one unfit for power. YMMV.

Oh the article link. Enjoy - or not.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/12/29/2024-candidates-2022-00074972

[Torie]

Susan Glasser penned a tea leaf nomination in the New Yorker in a rather memorable string of words so I thought I would copy and paste them here. She also thinks that Kamala Harris is Biden's Achilles heel, but never mind. Getting into that would be off topic for this thread, and we can't have that.

Elsewhere in Florida, Carlson briefly reëmerged from his Fox-imposed silence on Wednesday night with a direct-to-Twitter video, seemingly taped in his wood-panelled home sauna, attacking the stupidity of American political discourse. The bizarre rant, quickly viewed millions of times, added to the speculation that Carlson might emerge as a 2024 Republican challenger to Trump. “Celebrity, money, mental acuity, cynicism, pro-Putin isolationism, and an overt love of authoritarianism are a pretty strong secret sauce for the MAGA base,” Rick Wilson, the former Republican strategist turned Never Trump activist, argued on Twitter. “Celebrity got Trump the WH,” he added. “It could certainly do the same for Tucker. And spare me your ‘That could never happen. Even Trump’s GOP would never vote for a former TV host pushing white replacement theory.’ That’s PRECISELY who they’d vote for.”

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/the-week-the-biden-trump-rematch-got-real

[Torie]

Unsanatized links do not seem to soil the screen  of the perp. How unjust is that? Anyway, I apologize.