Politics COMMENTARY


Will Democrats Push Panic Button?


Biden’s weakness calls for desperate measures, says political analyst Dick Morris.


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oe biden and the demo- crats have to make a move. The president is losing badly in all the swing states,


and even trailing in the national pop- ular vote. The Democratic Party has got to do something. I see four options:


1. There could be irregularities. 2. They could insert Michelle Obama as a candidate at the last minute.


3. They could incite a national panic about COVID-19.


4. They could mount the equivalent of an Orange Revolution of mass street demonstrations to stop former President Donald Trump from taking office. The one thing they won’t do is go


quietly in defeat within the current ground rules of our democracy.


IRREGULARITIES Only four of the six key swing states require a photo ID to vote. Only Georgia and Wisconsin have


foolproof ID laws. Pennsylvania, Ari- zona, and Nevada do not require photo IDs. Michigan does, but a person can circumvent it simply by filling out an affidavit saying in effect: “Sorry, I left my identification home.” The GOP must attach the highest


priority to getting effective photo ID laws passed in at least Arizona and New Hampshire, where they have Republican majorities in the state legislature. In Arizona, with a Democrat gov-


ernor and a Republican legislature, the GOP should refuse to pass a state


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budget unless a strong photo ID law is passed. In Pennsylvania, where Repub-


licans only control the upper house of the legislature, they must make a similar stand. Rather than talk about a broad


panoply of electoral reforms, Repub- licans should zero in on requiring photo ID. With the millions of new residents who have poured over our open border in the past three years, the potential for irregularities is enormous.


MICHELLE OBAMA The Democrats may proceed with their primaries pretending that Biden is their candidate. Then, weeks before the convention, they might well push him aside and nominate Michelle Obama instead. They can’t nominate a white can-


didate like Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., because Black voters will not let them pass over Vice President Kamala Harris. But there would be no objection if


they choose Obama instead. Michelle would have instant star


power, and lots of voters would love the idea of the first Black woman pres- ident. But the more people get to know


her positions on things like repara- tions, no bail, open borders, racial separatism, critical race theory (CRT), and affirmative action, the former first lady will wear badly. However, a last-minute surprise nomination might deny us the oppor- tunity, or enough time, to get these


issues out. So, Republicans need to flag the


idea early on that she might run to deter or defeat her candidacy.


PANDEMIC PANIC With a new strain of coronavirus, one more communicable and with a higher fatality rate than COVID-19, Democrats could attempt to stop in- person voting, lock down our society, and replay their scenario of 2020. The new international treaty to be


signed in May that gives the World Health Organization (WHO) power to declare pandemics and prescribe measures to deal with them makes such a plan more feasible. Republicans and conservatives


must be on their guard against this maneuver.


AN ORANGE REVOLUTION Democrats are already trying to whip up national hysteria about the 2024 elections and the danger to democ- racy supposedly posed by the reelec- tion of Trump. Such incendiary tactics, which


include the Jan. 6 prosecutions, may be the precursor of a master plan for an American version of the Orange Revolution that toppled the govern- ment in Ukraine in 2004. By using demonstrations to para-


lyze major cities like Washington, D.C., and New York, the left may try to stop a Trump inauguration. More likely, the Democrats will


try all four measures sequentially. Rest assured, they will never go quietly into the night.


Dick Morris, a former presidential adviser and political strategist, is a Newsmax TV contributor.


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