In the everyday routine, national politics is the last thing we desire to write about. The players are so fixed, their statements so predictable: this camp, that camp, this insult, that insult. It’s not productive.
Developments since the Biden-Trump debate of June 27 have turned a predictable race on its head. Biden has a rotten debate. Trump escapes an assassination attempt. The GOP emerges energized and ecstatic from its convention in Milwaukee. Biden steps away from the race. Kamala Harris is the heir apparent as the Democrat running for president. Democrats are now energized and ecstatic.
Whether the race eventually settles down into the usual, predictable grooves, much has changed. We hope the best result from all these earthquakes will be a lasting change to politics as usual.
That being said, we wish to put in a word here for Virginia State University.
As the 2024 political season got underway, VSU was selected as a debate site by the Presidential Debate Commission. Biden and Tr...