Never boring

You see a lot of strutting, and the truth can fly out the window in the blink of an eye, but the one thing you have to say about politics is…it’s never boring.

Ole Thom Tillis sat in the Senate happy until the day Trump posted on Truth Social ‘he’s got to go’ – so now Thom’s headed for the exit. And sparks are flying over who’s going to take his place.

Lara Trump’s standing at the head of the line – with a name like Trump she cruises thru a Republican primary. But the name Trump is an anchor around her neck in the General Election.

Michael Whatley, Trump’s handpicked RNC Chairman, Dan Bishop, half a dozen others are also standing in line – and with an iron grip on the Republican Party Trump gets to choose.

So who’s the winner here?

Roy Cooper. The former governor. A Democrat.

Today there’re three tribes of voters: One only votes for Republicans, another only votes for Democrats, so the last tribe (the ‘Independents’) decides who wins – and two-thirds don’t like Trump. Running against a Trumpster hands Roy a gift in the General Election.

‘Wait,’ you say, ‘Trump won North Carolina three times.’ He did. For one reason: Those Independents disliked Hillary and Biden and Harris more than they disliked Trump. In two elections, when Trump was at the top of the ticket, those same Independents voted for Roy Cooper – they liked him.

Politics is never boring and, as we wait to see who Trump picks, melodrama’s rolling down the tracks.

But Roy Cooper’s sitting in the catbird seat.

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Telling stories, in his memoir Carter Wrenn follows The Trail of the Serpent twisting and turning through politics from Reagan to Trump. Order his book from Amazon.