Who wants Donald Trump dead? - Part 2

Several other Republicans have echoed similar comments in public, notwithstanding the victim of the shooting. Mr Trump has been gracious in preaching togetherness and rejecting violence, just as his opponent, President Biden, has strongly opposed political violence while conceding that his bulls-eye statement about Trump was an exaggerated phrase that he should not have made.

 
The discussion of whether 81-year-old President Joe Biden had the capacity for a second term took on a life of its own following the scathing debate on June 27 between the 45th President of the United States of America, USA, Mr. Donald Trump, who President Biden succeeded in 2020 and is determined to reclaim the mandate that he lost to the incumbent about three and a half years ago. This is because the outgoing president was always correcting himself when he lost his line of thought during the debate.
 
But, unlike the 45th President of the United States, Mr. Trump, who is set to return to the White House as the 47th President in January, he is not bragging about his landslide victory over the 46th and incumbent President, Mr. Biden, in the first of their scheduled series of debates (another one is scheduled for September) before the November 5 presidential election. Instead, the typically no-holds-bared former president Trump let it blossom and become a hot-button issue about President Biden’s flaws, particularly his age-related issues.
 
There is a consensus of opinion among the democrats, republicans, and indeed all Americans as well as television viewers around the world, that the 46th U.S. president, Joe Biden, gave a dismal performance in the debate. As he struggled to put his thoughts together, some critics claimed he unintentionally revealed to the audience that aging has taken a toll on him.

This was so obvious as he was muttering gibberish to the dismay, indignation, and discomfort of both his fellow Democrats and his opponents in the Republican Party, as well as politically neutral Americans.

It is no surprise that about 30 congressmen/women have been calling for his stepping aside from the contest.
Somehow, it is reminiscent of the Watergate Scandal-a cover up of a crime of burglary in the DNC headquarters by the presidency that resulted in the resignation of Richard Nixon as president of the US on August 8, 1974. 

His resignation followed pressure from his fellow party members and a threat of impeachment after resisting for a long time to resign due to the scandal that refused to go away despite concerted efforts to sweep it under the carpet.

Also, President Biden’s  awkward memory loss reminds politics watchers of the equally aged and former Senate majority leader (now minority leader), Mitch McConnell, who recently lost his train of thought in the middle of a speech, humiliating himself and other politicians when he practically went blank in the course of given a speech. People would probably prefer not to take a chance on witnessing President Biden’s aging health deteriorate to the extent of McDonnell’s.
 
After the debate, even President Biden’s most ardent supporters began to question his ability to govern the US for an additional four years. As a result, a wave of Americans is currently demanding that President Biden give up on his goal of running for reelection at the age of 81.
 
The main arguments made against President Biden’s reelection candidature are that his mental capacity is questionable and that his faculties are purportedly in poor shape, as evidenced by the poor performance and result of the CNN-organised debate.
 
One of former President Trump’s staunchest opponents and a former White House staffer during Trump’s tenure, Alyssa Farah Griffin during the debate twitted “viewers of all political stripes and the consensus is Biden needs to be replaced,” and the debate is “worse than I believe most people imagined.”
 
Longtime GOP pollster Frank Luntz wrote on X that his focus group of undecided voters is “surprised and concerned about Biden’s voice,” adding “This doesn’t bode well for questions about his health.”
 
CNN Chief National Correspondent, John King said: “Right now as we speak, there is a deep, a wide and a very aggressive panic in the Democratic Party,” adding that “It involves party strategists, it involves elected officials, and it involves fundraisers. And they’re having conversations about the president’s performance, which they think was dismal . . . some of those conversations include, “‘should we go to the White House and ask the president to step aside?’”
 
The preceding harsh conclusions are only a handful of the criticisms that dominated media headlines during and soon following the June 27 discussion. Nancy Pelosi, former Speaker of the House of Representatives with significant influence in the DNC, reportedly recently spoke privately but bluntly to President Trump, telling him that polls show he cannot win the presidential race against GOP candidate Mr. Trump and that if President Biden remained in the race, he would destroy Democrats’ chances of regaining control of the House of Representatives.
 
Senator Chuck Schumer and Congressman Adam Shiff, both firm supporters of President Biden, have allegedly joined the rising chorus of Democratic party leaders asking that Biden abandon his re-election bid.

It is a plea and demand that the besieged President Biden has resisted thus far, reminding his opponents that his potential replacement is not performing well in polls as well.

 
To make matters worse, the president has just succumbed to the COVID-19 virus and he is self-isolating instead of campaigning to save what is left of political life which Mr. Trump is about to bury.

Could that be a final sign, perhaps from divine forces or the so-called hand of God, to listen to the voice of the people, which is thought to be God’s voice? (vox-populi-vox-Dei.)
 
The truth is that the Democratic National Convention, DNC, is in no less of a risky situation than when they insist that Joe Biden can not continue to be their presidential candidate and force him to withdraw, enabling Vice President Kamala Harris to run against the highly popular Republican nominee, Donald Trump, who is currently leading both Biden and Harris in the polls. 

Remarkably, the presidential contest is just over 100 days away and the reality check is that opinion polls show that neither of the DNC candidates has an approval rating above 40 per cent.

As of February 12, President Biden’s rating was 38.9 per cent, while Vice President Harris’s rating was 37.5 per cent as per the average of surveys conducted by FiveThirtyEight, a company that uses data and facts to enhance public awareness.
To be continued tomorrow.
Onyinbe, an entrepreneur, public policy analyst, author, development strategist, wrote from Lagos.