Washington Examiner / Magazine
March 14, 2023 Issue
March 14, 2023 Print Edition
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Why the also-rans matter
We’re off to the races. Neither President Joe Biden nor former President Donald Trump has his respective party’s 2024 fields to himself anymore.That’s not to say that either is exactly quaking in his boots, however. Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is running a distant fourth in the national RealClearPolitics average, nearly 40 points behind first-place Trump. She also trails two undeclared candidates. An Emerson College poll showed Haley lagging Trump by 50 points, while Fox News has her down 36.REPUBLICANS CONTROL THE HOUSE. NOW WHAT CAN THEY DO?The third prominent announced Republican, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, doesn’t register at all in the national polling average. GOP voters who want a generational change in leadership haven’t gravitated toward the 37-year-old yet.Biden is in a similar position. While his national numbers among Democrats are worse than Trump’s with Republicans, according to RealClearPolitics, the president is being tested against candidates who aren’t running against him now and are only likely to get into the race if he takes a pass on a reelection bid. Biden’s only declared opponent is Marianne Williamson, a self-help guru who qualified for some Democratic debates early in the 2020 primaries but was and has remained an asterisk candidate in the polls. Long-shot presidential challengers pose a different sort of threat to front-runners. (Washington Examiner illustration/Getty Images) The White House was almost mirthful when the Washington Examiner’s Christian Datoc asked about...

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