Vote for the Corpse, It’s Important

Or the felon, because the other guy is a corpse.

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Former president Donald Trump and President Joe Biden during the debate in Atlanta, Ga., June 27, 2024.

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Back in 1991, the Louisiana governor’s race came down to Ku Klux Klansman David Duke and convicted criminal Edwin Edwards. The black-humor slogan of the campaign: “Vote for the crook, it’s important.”

Don’t envy the Democratic pollsters who have to interpret what happened to Joe Biden after the debate and decide whether he is too damaged to continue on as the Democratic nominee. Huge numbers of Democrats over the past two years have been telling pollsters that Joe Biden is too old to be president of the United States. But huge numbers of those very same Democrats report that they would crawl over broken glass to vote for a man they believe is goo-brained and senile, if only to avoid Donald Trump.

Michael Brendan Dougherty

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Michael Brendan Dougherty is a senior writer at National Review Online.

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