Donald Trump became a felon. A gunman tried to assassinate him. President Biden ended his campaign and Vice President Harris started hers. It’s all grabbed the attention of voters who now wonder: What could possibly come next?
Meridian Monthy, right, and Megha Patel watch the presidential debate between former president Donald Trump and President Biden at Union Pub in Washington, D.C., on June 27.
“It’s a weird roller coaster ride that we’ve been on,” Skelcy said last week as her party pinned their hopes on Kamala Harris. She was hopeful about Harris and her party’s prospects. But as she rattled off all the things she worried Trump would do if he won, the dread she felt a few weeks earlier wasn’t far away.
The turmoil of 2024 has parallels to 1968, scholars of presidential history said, an election year rocked by upheaval and violence. President Lyndon B. Johnson said in March of that year he wouldn’t seek reelection amid poor approval ratings; a leading Democratic candidate to replace him, Robert F. Kennedy, was assassinated a couple months later, not long after the murder of civil rights luminary Martin Luther King Jr.
There is no precedent for a presumptive nominee withdrawing as close to Election Day as Biden did and after winning the party’s primaries, Cohen said. There is also no precedent for a major party’s nominee being convicted of a felony — but with so much other news, Trump’s legal cases can feel to some political observers like an afterthought.
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