Today is Wednesday, August 24th, 2022, and this is the Daily Article Podcast.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, and today's article is written by Dr. Jim Denison.

I will do whatever it takes to ensure Donald Trump is never again anywhere near the Oval Office, and I mean it.

So declared Representative Liz Cheney after losing her Republican House primary last week.

When asked if she plans to run for president, she said later, that's a decision that I'm going

to make in the coming months, but it is something that I'm

thinking about.

Now, a new Yahoo News UGov poll shows that if she were to run for president as an independent

in 2024, she would actually help to re-elect Mr. Trump.

In the poll, if the 2024 election were held today and were a rematch between President Biden and former President Trump. In the poll, if the 2024 election were held today and were a rematch between President

Biden and former President Trump, Biden would lead by four points among registered voters. But if

Cheney were on the ballot as an independent, she would draw so much democratic support that

Trump would vault to an eight-point lead over Biden, 40% to 32%,

while Cheney would receive 11% of the vote. In other words, her candidacy could accomplish the opposite of its intended purpose.

One of the many reasons it is difficult to affect moral transformation through political means is that the

political outcomes are so unpredictable. Three days before the 2016 election, the Princeton Election

Consortium gave Hillary Clinton a 99% chance of winning the election. The 1980 election was

widely considered too close to call before Ronald Reagan won in a landslide.

Another is that political entities so often get moral issues so wrong.

For instance, delegates at the United Nations General Assembly are finalizing negotiations

on a resolution that would require all UN agencies to declare abortion

a human right. And a judge ruled yesterday in support of a Maryland school district that allows

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