{"id":28990,"date":"2023-11-22T22:51:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T21:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28990"},"modified":"2023-11-22T22:53:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T21:53:20","slug":"trump-could-be-back-in-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28990","title":{"rendered":"Trump could be back in the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote>&#8220;Public opinion polls in the United States are the stuff of nightmares. The website RealClearPolitics aggregates all the major polls. The eight most recent polls regarding the 2024 elections \u2014 from respected pollsters including NBC News, the Economist, Reuters and others \u2014 all show the same thing. Trump defeats Biden.\n<p>\nIn one of those polls, Trump has a 53 \u2013 47 lead, which could mean a landslide \u2014 and the Republicans capturing both houses of Congress. Thanks to Trump\u2019s previous term in office, the Republicans already control one branch of the federal government (the judiciary). If Trump wins decisively, they could control all three.&#8221;<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an extract from a thoughtful, but scary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/an-american-nightmare\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/an-american-nightmare\/\">blog posting<\/a> by my American friend Eric Lee. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Public opinion polls in the United States are the stuff of nightmares. The website RealClearPolitics aggregates all the major polls. The eight most recent polls regarding the 2024 elections \u2014 from respected pollsters including NBC News, the Economist, Reuters and others \u2014 all show the same thing. Trump defeats Biden. In one of those polls, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28992,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28990\/revisions\/28992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}