EDITORIAL
BY DHIREN SHAH
Hello Readers,
The World Cup Final was played in Barbados on June 29, 2024, and it was one of the best cricket games ever. It was a roller coaster from beginning to end. In the last half-hour, it looked like South Africa had an easy path to victory, but India’s bowlers turned it around and won by 7 runs. Congratulations to the Indian team. Also, congratulations to the South African team for playing a hard fought game until the end.
As everyone knows now, it was a disastrous debate by President Joseph Biden. This is accepted by all the media and experts. The talk of the town is to replace President Biden as the Democrats’ candidate. However, President Biden is the only one who can remove himself. If he does not agree to step down, then he will be the official nominee of the Democratic Party. Presidents Obama and Clinton are not in favor of changing the candidate. According to them, he is the only candidate who can come close to or win against Donald Trump. Robert Kennedy, Jr. is far behind and there is not enough time for another candidate to start a campaign at this juncture and win the election.
Many Democrats were wondering that if Joe Biden is this bad, why did he come for a debate? However, Biden wanted a debate, and he challenged Trump to the debate with the majority of the rules in his favor. His rule was to shut off the microphone of the non-speaking debater, so only one debater can speak at a time and there were not the problems of very rude and rough talks amongst Biden and Trump, like in a previous debate from 2020. This was a very good idea, and it was successful.
However, Biden’s performance was horrible. He was nervous and losing his train of thought many times. He was mumbling sometimes as well. However, as the debate went further, he got a little stronger, but not good enough to be a trustworthy presidential candidate. Also, Kamala Harris is not well liked by the people, especially in the black community. The Republican Party is waiting on the next move Biden makes.
Can a new candidate become as popular as Biden and have a chance to win against frontrunner Trump? I think Trump is waiting for any move from the Democratic Party to replace Biden, Trump will make a move to select his running mate. His potential running mates include North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, and Trump’s last primary and one-time UN Ambassador under his administration, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley.
The Supreme Court ruled on July 1, 2024 that Donald Trump may claim immunity for actions in his presidential capacity for his upcoming Jan. 6 case of four counts by Jack Smith. However, it does not apply to actions outside of that. Now the court has to decide which part of his actions were presidential and which part of his actions were not on January 6, 2021. The burden goes to Jack Smith, as he has to prove that his actions were not in presidential capacity. This may leak down to the case in Georgia as well. This is a big win for former president Donald Trump. Now the case will go to lower courts, and they must decide on Trump’s actions on whether or not they were presidential.
Have a wonderful week. I’ll talk to you next week.
