{"id":41521,"date":"2020-03-04T02:32:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T02:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41521"},"modified":"2020-03-04T02:32:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T02:32:17","slug":"what-a-difference-a-primary-victory-has-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41521","title":{"rendered":"What a difference a primary victory has made"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23POTUS%20%23JoeBiden&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ap_joe_biden_kb_141009_16x9_992.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35946\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ap_joe_biden_kb_141009_16x9_992-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ap_joe_biden_kb_141009_16x9_992-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ap_joe_biden_kb_141009_16x9_992-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ap_joe_biden_kb_141009_16x9_992.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A single primary victory in the Deep South has injected a once-moribund presidential campaign with a vigor and vitality that one could not have imagined.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden won the South Carolina primary this past weekend and set up a Super Tuesday ballot performance that has many of our heads spinning.<\/p>\n<p>As I watch the coverage of the primary states poll closing, I am struck by the victories being rolled up by Biden in states where he was given up for politically dead a week or two or ago.<\/p>\n<p>I heard someone say tonight that U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, the South Carolina political icon whose endorsement of Biden is seen as the turning point in the former VP&#8217;s presidential campaign, could be named &#8220;secretary of any Cabinet agency he wants&#8221; in a Biden administration if such an event comes to pass.<\/p>\n<p>Gosh, do ya think?<\/p>\n<p>Well, they&#8217;re still counting the ballots. I don&#8217;t know how Super Tuesday will shake out. As I write this brief blog post, I am hopeful that Democrats across the nation have snapped out of their revolutionary mood and returned to some semblance of rationality and reason.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden represents a sort of political comfort zone that I believe we will seek as we ponder who we want to lead us for the next four years. I have had more than enough of the stomach-churning uncertainty of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Of all the candidates left standing among that once-gigantic Democratic Party primary field, Joe Biden appears <em>at this moment<\/em> to be the one who can restore the decency that once was the hallmark of our nation&#8217;s most exalted public office.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23POTUS%20%23JoeBiden&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A single primary victory in the Deep South has injected a once-moribund presidential campaign with a vigor and vitality that one could not have imagined. Joe Biden won the South Carolina primary this past weekend and set up a Super Tuesday ballot performance that has many of our heads spinning. As I watch the coverage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41521\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What a difference a primary victory has made<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[9249,2505,5924],"class_list":["post-41521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-james-clyburn","tag-joe-biden","tag-south-carolina-primary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41524,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41521\/revisions\/41524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}