As the 2024 campaign unfolded, media consensus acknowledged that no party had a decidedly popular candidate. The Dems wavered over the tottering incumbent and overlooked their high-profile maverick West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin. The splintered GOP sat idly by as former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declined to pick up the gauntlet and primary voters gave feeble support to former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley.
It was a “down arrow” for our country and perhaps the free world. The Biden/Harris/Walz act coulda gone to a vaudeville stage or circus tent. Donald Trump woulda been history. Now, no matter the outcome, speculation has risen about another physically contested election result. Our country shoulda steered a different course.
Bernard Borza
Greensburg