Following the June 27 debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, a majority of Democrats have finally realized that the mental and physical inability of their president has been exposed to the public. This puts Biden’s chances of winning the November 5 election at the level of a mission impossible. At this stage, W. James Antle III, executive editor of the Washington Examiner, stated in an article in the National Interest:

It was apparent that Biden wasn’t going to fall on his sword and Democrats have few practical options. There was some hopeful reporting that hinted at a possible family intervention, but it is readily apparent Biden’s wife and children are among the biggest boosters of his continued candidacy. By weekend’s end, Democratic donors had given way to farming analogies: “This is the old horse we’ve got, and we need to ride him ‘til he’s ready for the glue factory”.

Biden weathered the crucial 72 hours when his candidacy was hanging in the balance. He remains more or less in control of his political destiny, though the donor class in not without a say. But he is not totally out of the woods yet.

Antle III further wrote: “The logic appears to be that if Joe Biden won’t bow out, there is no point in further weakening him by mounting a public pressure campaign that will go nowhere. (This was basically the same thought process behind shielding Biden from a genuinely competitive primary process.) If Biden shows further age-related slippage or drops in the polls — remember that while he is trailing Trump, he is also for now still within plausible striking distance of 270 electoral votes — major Democrats could revisit this.

“The window for such second thoughts is limited. By the time of the second debate, if there is one, Biden will already be the nominee. You can’t really say the sitting president, who you need to remain in power until Jan. 20, is incapacitated as a means to replace him. So Democrats will soon be stuck with him. Biden had better avoid slipping on any literal or figurative banana peels before then”.

Dr. James Holmes, J. C. Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College and a Nonresident Fellow at the University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs wrote in the National Interest, “… In the debate’s aftermath voices from across the political continuum adjudged President Biden’s performance proof of mental infirmity. The New York Times editorial board clamored for Biden to Biden to quit the race for the good of the country. Veteran Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward pronounced the president’s showing “so bad, so awful” that it dumped a “political hydrogen bomb” on the White House”.

Meanwhile, an influential bloc inside the Democratic Party is actively considering Michelle Obama as the ultimate replacement for Joe Biden. Media favorable to this option is already playing its cards. It says — Hillary Clinton tried and failed. Now it’s up to another presidential spouse to try and crack the glass ceiling. A new Reuters/Ipsos poll suggests that only one Democratic candidate would decisively trounce former president Donald Trump in November. And that candidate is Michelle Obama.

It further says — “Democrats and a good number of independent voters clearly see Obama as a kind of Wonder Woman — a demi-goddess of wisdom and strength who could use a magic lasso to rein in the gerontocratic patriarchy surrounding Biden, reuniting the Democratic Party. The Harvard historian Jill Lepore, in her book ‘The Secret History of Wonder Woman’, has argued that she forms a kind of missing link in the story of feminism over the past century. Perhaps a fresh Obama candidacy could play a similarly pivotal role for the current one, beleaguered as it is on a number of fronts, ranging from abortion to equal pay”.

Despite such predictions and counter-predictions, while members of the Biden family — especially Jill Biden and Hunter Biden — are confident about Joe Biden’s capability of defeating Donald Trump on November 5, a significant segment of the Biden administration, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, is in check-out mode, thinking the White House will have a new president on January 20, 2025.

In my opinion, during his second tenure as the US president, Donald Trump will take several bold steps, where he shall exert tremendous pressure on Israel to accept a two-state solution, while he also will put similar pressure on Volodymyr Zelensky to first hold the postponed election and legitimize his tenure before talking about a peace settlement with Russia. Trump shall also adopt an extreme hardline towards Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and any other parties, including Lebanese Hezbollah if they oppose or attempt to obstruct such plans. American drones will be hunting key-figures of Hamas in particular while Trump may also intensify America’s military aid to Israel for totally exterminating Hamas.

Through such drastic drives, if Donald Trump succeeds in bringing peace to both Ukraine and Israel, he could redefine his legacy and emerge as one of the most transformative leaders of the modern era.

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