It is likely that the general election will not be between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, which Tucker Carlson predicted on Thursday – and he may well be correct.
During a speech at an Intercollegiate Studies Institute event in Wilmington, Delaware, Carlson commented that Biden is “senile,” stating that he did not mean to be unkind but that it was simply the truth.
Despite Democratic prosecutors indicting Trump on 91 felony counts, Carlson noted that Biden is currently behind in the polls compared to Trump.
“They’ve done everything they can by legal means — which are in fact extra-legal means if we’re being totally honest, completely Third World stuff — to take the opponent out of the race, and they’re still losing,” he said.
“This is not going to be a race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump,” Carlson proclaimed.
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He threw in as a sidenote: “By the way, if it’s [California Gov.] Gavin Newsom, we all should be very, very concerned. That guy’s scary and I mean it.”
“These issues will be forced soon. … The road from here to November of 2024 is going to be filled with developments nobody in this room could foresee. I can promise you that,” Carlson said.
“So it’s about to get very serious. … Everything is at stake,” he added, as the nation is engaged in a spiritual battle.
The commentator elaborated on this point in a speech to The Heritage Foundation in April days before he was fired from Fox News.
Carlson indicated that the Democratic Party’s extreme views on abortion and transgender surgeries for minors, which make no logical sense, are in fact part of a spiritual battle.
In June, Hugh Hewitt – a radio talk show host and former member of the Reagan administration – predicted that Joe Biden would not be the Democratic nominee for president, claiming he would step down before the primary election season.
Hewitt compared this to 1968, when President Lyndon Johnson, after barely managing to win the first Democratic primary contest, announced that he would not run for re-election. He pointed out that Johnson only narrowly defeated Senator Eugene McCarthy from Minnesota and thus chose to drop out of the race.
Johnson’s poor performance in the Democratic primary of the Granite State, where he won by a mere 6 percentage points (48-42), is reminiscent of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s current challenge to incumbent Joe Biden. This echoes the history of his father Robert F. Kennedy Sr., who also ran against an incumbent Democratic president four days after Johnson’s win in the Granite State primary.
On March 31, 1968, Johnson declared in a televised address from the Oval Office, “I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your president.” With this precedent in mind, Hewitt speculates that Biden will make a similar decision.
“I think you’ll see an exit in the course of the primaries,” he said, and another Democrat, besides Vice President Kamala Harris, will jump in — perhaps Newsom.
In addition to his advanced age, one potential factor that could lead Joe Biden to not run for reelection is the increasing issues surrounding his family’s overseas business deals which have been uncovered by Republicans. Professor Jonathan Turley of George Washington University suggested that Biden could pardon his son and then announce he will not run again as an ultimate “break the glass option”.
“Facing an impeachment inquiry, low public support, and a son in the legal dock, Biden could use the case to close out his political career,” he argued.
Carlson mentioned that there are numerous factors that could affect the upcoming year, but it appears less probable for a Trump-Biden rematch to occur.
