From the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, the Armstrong and Getty Show.

Pressure from the left after a prominent liberal columnist writes, President Biden should not run again in 2024, citing voter concerns about age and the VP's unpopularity.

That combination seems to me to be potentially dangerous for the Democrats in fending off what would be a disaster, a revenge presidency by Donald Trump.

David Ignatius getting so much heat from the left for saying what everybody knows is true.

Not self-evident, not this stuff about Trump being a did revenge, whatever, all that crap, but but the fact that Joe Biden is the most likely person to lose and Kamala Harris would lose too.

But he also points out in that column, it's getting pretty late to do anything about it, which is true on the right also.

So all these conversations about who's going to run and who's going to jump into a race and his Michelle Obama going to get in or on the left or Glenn Youngkin on the right or at some point you run out of time.

And I thought we should talk to somebody about that.

Yeah, how's all that work? Let's ask Gary Dietrich, nonpartisan political analyst, long time friend of the Armstrong and Getty Show, you ought to follow him on the Twitter machine at Gary Dietrich.

Gary, welcome. How are you, sir?

Hey, good morning, guys. And so I've been waiting for one of the two of you having ever pretty much every morning to throw your hat in the ring, but it times a waste in, guys, it's time to get in.

Yeah, I feel like the average person runs around with this belief that any human being can just decide to run for president the month before the election and surprise everyone.

But what's the reality of when you got to get in before it's too late?

Yeah, that's a great question, guys, and it is coming up a lot right now for the reasons you mentioned.

Of course, you know, let's be clear also because of Donald Trump's legal woes, in particular, you know, how long before somebody else could get in.

If somebody, you know, everybody kind of has sometimes their fantasy candidates are likely to see this is the real key to the whole deal.

And this is why you'll also hear so much talk pretty much every election cycle about, you know, why doesn't it independent candidate get in and what would that take and why is that so difficult?

It boils down to one very simple general fact, and that is we do not run national elections in the United States.

We run 50 separate state elections. Each state has their own filing requirements. Some of those require a certain fairly sizable number of voter signatures.

Others are just a filing fee, but they all have deadlines. That's the real key. And so that's why, for example, next month is the filing deadline for South Carolina and Nevada.

After that, it's Arkansas and other state in December comes a whole smooth stage, including the Biggies, California and Texas.

So in other words, if Michelle Obama decided, you know, I am going to run for president in November, she can't get on the ballot in South Carolina in and Nevada.

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