It is July 12th, 2024.

One hundred and fifteen days remain until the polls close on election day,

38 days until the gavel drops and the Democratic National Convention convenes in Chicago.

This weekend is the preliminary to the convening of the Republican National Convention, where Donald

John Trump will receive the nomination for the third consecutive election cycle, joining

one of very few Americans who have ever achieved that feat.

This is the warning. This is the warning. Two weeks have passed since the

cataclysmic debate in Atlanta between President Biden and Donald Trump. The polling is continuing

to come in, and all of it shows Donald Trump is ahead, and in the

strongest position he has ever been on a July 12th since he came down the escalator in Trump Tower.

Donald Trump is on track to win. During his news conference, facing the White House Press Corps and the international media

for the first time and a long time, President Biden was confronted with his poll numbers.

In part, this is what he responded with. If your team came back and showed you data that she would fare better against former President Donald Trump,

would you reconsider your decision to stay in the race?

No, unless they came back and said, there's no way you can win.

Me.

No one's saying that.

In the immediate aftermath, President Obama's chief strategist, David Axelrod, said this, making clear

he believes the White House staff is not sharing with the president his perilous political condition.

Let me be perfectly clear about something. In a battle of narcissism

between narcissists, Joe Biden doesn't stand to chance against Donald Trump, who is the real,

undiluted, pure specimen of malignant narcissism, a perfect crystalline example of it.

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