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Summer is only a day away, which means… we still have four and a half months to go until the 2024 Presidential election finally arrives. Yeah, the familiar refrain of “Are we there yet?” applies to more than just the family vacation. Even the first Presidential debate next week offers little respite from the tedious; a recent Marist poll suggests that the election is a dead heat at 49-49, suggesting that most voters just want to get it over with already. ABC News contributor Sarah Isgur discussed the apathy many Americans will feel as the debate approaches. She appeared on 710 WOR’s Len Berman and Michael Riedel in the Morning program to discuss the reasons people seem so disinterested in news from the campaign trail.
“We have so much more time to go,” Isgur told Berman and Riedel. “The debate has yet to happen; really, a lot of people don’t tune in until Labor Day. What will be interesting, I think, about this election is that I don’t know what could possibly change people’s minds, because this isn’t about policies, this isn’t about, you know, whose ten-point plan to fix inflation is going to be better. This is going to be a lot of vibes- which group looks and feels like where you belong, and in that sense, I don’t know that something like the debate, for instance, is going to make much of a difference.”
Isgur also addressed the growing trend of ruling by executive decision, a trend she feels only makes governing harder to do while ratcheting up public dislike for the Supreme Court. “We’ve been doing this for ten-plus years, and all that’s happened is that Congress has atrophied more and more and more. In the meantime, these Presidents keep trying to take bolder and bolder actions making new laws, and then when the courts say, ‘Actually, you don’t have the power to do that, only Congress can make a new law’, then everyone is like, ‘Aw, these courts are the worst!’, instead of blaming Congress for not doing anything… and then our problems just build up in the meantime.”
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