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SATURDAY, JULY 27, 2024

The news has been nonstop the last three weeks, with Biden’s disastrous debate performance and his withdrawal from the presidential race acting as bookends.


And now it looks as if Vice President Kamala Harris is going to be the Democratic nominee. Will she be able to unite her party and smooth things over with disenfranchised Democrat voters? With the DNC a few weeks away, time is not on her side.

I asked you this last week, but with the news of Biden’s withdrawal, I’m curious if you’ve changed your mind.
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Thanks and have a safe weekend,

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Driving the Week: What does Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the presidential race mean for the next six months of his presidency? Immediately following his announcement, I wrote an op-ed for the WSJ discussing just that:

Biden Drops Out, the Dangers of a Lame-Duck President Emerge
As Americans focus on the campaign, the world asks what our global role will be for the next six months.
-Wall Street Journal


Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw from the presidential race effectively makes him a lame duck. The odds favored his achieving this status on Nov. 5 anyway, but America now faces a nearly 100-day longer interregnum than in prior transition periods. We may focus on the election campaign, but the wider world worries what Washington’s global role will be for the next six months.


History affords no clear answer. The constitutional rule that we have only one president at a time is often hard for Americans, let alone foreigners, to grasp. The dangers posed by uncertainty about who’s in charge even in normal transitions are exacerbated by a weak incumbent no longer seeking re-election. U.S. adversaries, and even some allies, will see opportunities to advance their interests. Nor can we rule out what an otherwise responsible, but disappointed and possibly bitter lame duck might consider doing as his tenure in office dwindles.


The national-security risks and opportunities facing lame-duck presidents vary with the international environment and their own beliefs and proclivities. This year, the length of Mr. Biden’s lame-duckery offers unique complexities. Given the 22nd Amendment’s two-term limit, one could argue that presidents become lame ducks on their second Inauguration Day, but that obscures the key differences between how the Reagan, George W. Bush and Obama administrations ended versus the “defeated” Lyndon Johnson, Carter and Biden presidencies.

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First Look


In 2019, as National Security Advisor I designed the United States policy to fight against Maduro sinking into a dictator of socialism in Venezuela. The Venezuelan people suffered five years of Maduro’s socialism destroying an economy with the world’s largest oil reserves – liquid money. Because of Maduro's greed, the people of Venezuela were driven to dig through garbage to survive. Millions of Venezuelans fled the country. Maduro was falling prey to international bad actors like Cuba, Iran and China. We knew democracy must return, which is why we launched an aggressive sanction campaign against Maduro.

I want you to get a first look at the ARTE TV documentary I am featured in about how the United States used its economic tools to the maximum capacity to constrict Maduro and ensure that his comrades no longer pilfer what rightfully belongs to the people of Venezuela.



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My latest for The Telegraph: JD Vance is a disturbing choice for Vice-President


Trump and Vance should correct the defense deficiencies created by Clinton and Obama. These Democrat failures are not an excuse to give up our positions of strength.



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Although widely expected, Donald Trump’s selection of JD Vance as his running mate is nonetheless profoundly disturbing in its implications for American foreign policy in a Trump presidency. Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater are turning in their graves.


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Describing the substantive defects in the Trump-Vance approach could fill many pages of newsprint, but – taking Ukraine as an example – both men are disinterested, or openly disdainful, of assisting Kyiv’s defense against Russia’s unprovoked aggression. For Vance, the US lacks both the military assets and the defense-industrial base to be a global power, meaning it must concentrate its resources to defend against China.


It is beyond debate that years of inadequate defense budgets have made Washington’s job harder. Bill Clinton’s eagerness (along with European governments) to cut military budgets after the Soviet Union’s collapse (the so-called “peace dividend”) and Barack Obama’s debilitating military budget cuts still need repair. But these are failures of will and resolve, typical of Democratic foreign policies, not inadequate assets. Trump should work to correct these deficiencies, not treat them as excuses for further reductions, thereby abandoning even more international positions of strength.


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