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America needs leaders with political courage 

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11.03.2024

The primary elections are over — Donald Trump and Joe Biden will be their party’s nominees. The referee is blowing the whistle. Nikki Haley is calling it quits. That’s just what the establishment wants her to do.

But what do voters want? And what does America need?

America needs a coalition of leaders with political courage to challenge Trump and Biden's current failed establishment.

While Trump and Biden are in the front seat to become the party nominees, most voters do not want them. Super Tuesday was dominated by the “fellas,” but Haley managed an upset victory over Trump in Vermont, and Biden lost to someone named Jason Palmer in American Samoa. Voters are tired of being ignored.

In 1824, no candidate won a majority of the electoral votes in the four-way race between Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, William H. Crawford and Henry Clay. In 1876, the election between Samuel J. Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes had allegations of electoral fraud and voter intimidation that led to 20 disputed electoral votes from Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina and Oregon. In both cases, the decision was sent to Congress. In both cases, the candidate elected president did not secure the most votes.

In a recent interview with the New Yorker, Biden said, "If — and when — I win, I think he'll contest it. No matter what the result is." The political reality is we........

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