2024 rumblings loom over 2022, from Newsom v. DeSantis to a rematch for Trump and Biden
On a holiday weekend punctured by yet another numbing tragedy, midway through a year that carries enormous political implications, 2024 was everywhere.
Just in the last few days, Vice President Kamala Harris seemed to take President Joe Biden back a step on how quickly they'll declare their plans for a second campaign (though the White House has long reiterated that Biden plans to seek a second term). And former President Donald Trump's aides and associates took him a step closer to another run -- teasing an announcement that could come sooner rather than later.
The Democratic governor of California, Gavin Newsom, took a pricy political shot at the Republican governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis. That was based on the assumption that the latter is basically already running for president -- though it also fuels speculation that the former is interested in the job as well.
The most recent GOP nominee before Trump, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, wrote an essay for The Atlantic faulting Biden for not breaking through a "national malady of denial, deceit, and distrust" -- and also warning that a Trump return to office "would feed the sickness, probably rendering it incurable."
