As the Paris Olympics wind down, it’s hard to say which has been the more riveting spectacle, the games or the 2024 presidential race. Next week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago will cap a summer of high political drama with dizzying plot twists.
It began with Donald Trump’s history-making criminal convictions, which perversely seemed to help him sew up his party’s nomination.
Then came President Biden’s mercilessly revealing debate performance, Trump’s narrow escape from an assassin’s bullet and a GOP national convention in Milwaukee that looked more like a royal coronation.
Biden then upstaged the Republicans with his eleventh-hour handoff to Vice President Kamala Harris. This rattled Trump by depriving him of the grudge-match he’s been itching for ever since his stinging 2020 defeat.
