{"id":525351,"date":"2022-12-12T04:38:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T01:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/joes-2024-primary-plan-why-herschel-walker-really-lost-and-other-commentary\/"},"modified":"2022-12-12T04:38:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T01:38:00","slug":"joes-2024-primary-plan-why-herschel-walker-really-lost-and-other-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/joes-2024-primary-plan-why-herschel-walker-really-lost-and-other-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"#Joe&#8217;s 2024 primary plan, why Herschel Walker really lost and other commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a28a8b6920ba\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" 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class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/joes-2024-primary-plan-why-herschel-walker-really-lost-and-other-commentary\/#%E2%80%9CJoes_2024_primary_plan_why_Herschel_Walker_really_lost_and_other_commentary%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Joe&#8217;s 2024 primary plan, why Herschel Walker really lost and other commentary&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/joes-2024-primary-plan-why-herschel-walker-really-lost-and-other-commentary\/#Centrist_Behind_Joes_Primary_Plan\" >Centrist: Behind Joe\u2019s Primary Plan<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/joes-2024-primary-plan-why-herschel-walker-really-lost-and-other-commentary\/#From_the_right_The_Georgia_Voter-Suppression_Myth\" >From the right: The Georgia Voter-Suppression Myth<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/joes-2024-primary-plan-why-herschel-walker-really-lost-and-other-commentary\/#Liberal_Dems_Tenuous_Hold_on_the_Burbs\" >Liberal: Dems\u2019 Tenuous Hold on the \u2019Burbs<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/joes-2024-primary-plan-why-herschel-walker-really-lost-and-other-commentary\/#Foreign_desk_Putin_Played_Biden\" >Foreign desk: Putin Played Biden<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/joes-2024-primary-plan-why-herschel-walker-really-lost-and-other-commentary\/#Elex_desk_Why_Walker_Really_Lost\" >Elex desk: Why Walker Really Lost<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CJoes_2024_primary_plan_why_Herschel_Walker_really_lost_and_other_commentary%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Joe&#8217;s 2024 primary plan, why Herschel Walker really lost and other commentary&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/AP22344693114669-e1670808434805.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Centrist_Behind_Joes_Primary_Plan\"><\/span>Centrist: Behind Joe\u2019s Primary Plan<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cIf President Biden runs for re-election \u2014 and his move to change the primary calendar sends a clear signal that he is running \u2014 he doesn\u2019t want any surprises,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/campaign\/3770686-reshuffling-the-primaries-what-it-means\/\">explains Bill Schneider at The Hill<\/a>. Iowa and New Hampshire \u201chave gotten to go first\u201d because they\u2019re small \u2014 \u201clesser-known contenders\u201d can run there \u201cwithout having to raise huge amounts of money. Retail campaigning can produce surprises like Jimmy Carter in 1976 or Pete Buttigieg in 2020. The press thrives on surprises \u2014 twists and turns and unexpected developments. Everything President Biden is trying to avoid. He does not intend to be the first incumbent president defeated for re-nomination in his own party.\u201d That\u2019s why he also wants \u201cto ban all caucuses and replace them with primaries.\u201d \u201cA primary is an election. A caucus is a meeting.\u201d The latter attracts \u201cactivists\u201d \u2014 and voting \u201cin a primary is much easier than attending a caucus.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"From_the_right_The_Georgia_Voter-Suppression_Myth\"><\/span>From the right: The Georgia Voter-Suppression Myth<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Sen. Raphael Warnock\u2019s claim \u201cThe voter suppression we\u2019re seeing in Georgia and across the country is Jim Crow in new clothes,\u201d\u00a0\u00a0has \u201cnever been more divorced from reality,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/georgia-senate-race-demolishes-voter-suppression-myth\">snaps Jason L. Riley at City Journal<\/a>. Democrats won\u2019t acknowledge Warnock defeated Republican Herschel Walker in a runoff \u201cthat saw voter turnout exceed what it was on Election Day.\u201d Indeed, Georgia is \u201cthe poster child for a voter-suppression narrative that simply can\u2019t withstand serious scrutiny.\u201d That narrative is a \u201cturnout strategy\u201d designed \u201cto keep black voters angry and paranoid.\u201d Democrats cynically ignore that \u201cthe\u00a0<em>If I don\u2019t win, votes were suppressed<\/em>\u00a0narrative is a close cousin of the\u00a0<em>If I don\u2019t win, the election was rigged<\/em>\u00a0narrative that they rightly criticize.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Liberal_Dems_Tenuous_Hold_on_the_Burbs\"><\/span>Liberal: Dems\u2019 Tenuous Hold on the \u2019Burbs<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats are feeling good about their prospects in 2024,\u201d thanks to the story they\u2019re \u201ctelling themselves about the 2022 election,\u201d\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theliberalpatriot.substack.com\/p\/the-democrats-tenuous-hold-on-the\">observes The Liberal Patriot\u2019s Ruy Teixeira<\/a>: With the GOP \u201ca semi-fascist party in thrall to Donald Trump and the MAGA movement,\u201d voters, \u201cespecially suburbanites,\u201d rejected it. Republicans won\u2019t change, so Dems can \u201crun the same playbook in 2024.\u201d\u00a0In reality, \u201cless than a third of the suburban vote\u00a0nationwide is made up of college-educated whites,\u201d and \u201cthree-fifths of suburban white voters are working class (noncollege).\u201d So Dems\u2019 \u201chold on the suburban vote\u201d is \u201ctenuous\u201d; indeed, their margin there dropped from 10 percentage points in 2020 to just one point in 2022. What if Trump\u2019s\u00a0<em>not<\/em>\u00a0the nominee? A new poll shows Gov. Ron DeSantis tied with Biden for 2024, carrying \u201cevery educational group but postgraduates.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Foreign_desk_Putin_Played_Biden\"><\/span>Foreign desk: Putin Played Biden<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cBrittney Griner is the clear winner in Thursday\u2019s stunning prisoner swap of the WNBA star for arms dealer Viktor Bout,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/brittney-griner-free-other-winners-losers-prisoner-swap-deal-surprise-you\">notes Rebecca Grant at FoxNews.com<\/a>. The \u201cother big winners\u201d? Russian President Vladimir Putin, \u201cViktor Bout, and the Biden political machine. The losers? Current Russian hostage Paul Whelan and the people of Ukraine. And America\u2019s long-term reputation.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m glad to see an American coming home at Christmas time,\u201d but bringing \u201cBout back at a low price\u201d shows Putin \u201cremains a major international player who has just pulled a fast one on Biden.\u201d Worse \u201cis setting the precedent of hostage \u2018diplomacy\u2019 through this negotiation. It\u2019s a dangerous world out there and maybe more bad guys will decide they can cash in on wrongful detention of a high-profile American female.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Elex_desk_Why_Walker_Really_Lost\"><\/span>Elex desk: Why Walker Really Lost<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Herschel Walker did not lose because of \u201cthe Trump effect\u201d or poor candidate quality, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/07\/3-unsexy-reasons-warnock-beat-walker-in-the-georgia-runoff\/\">argues Victoria Marshall at The Federalist<\/a>. He was outspent, and he failed to get out the vote: The left-wing America Votes \u201cknocked on 4 million doors\u201d leading up to the runoff, 10 times as many as Walker hit. And \u201cDemocrats ride election litigation like a jockey riding a horse,\u201d with Warnock\u2019s campaign suing to prevent the state \u201cfrom banning early voting on the Saturday after Thanksgiving.\u201d If \u201cRepublicans can\u2019t stop\u201d such tactics, they \u201cwould do well to mirror them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Compiled by The Post Editorial Board<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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