Trump Now the Presumptive Republican Nominee

Posted March 6, 2024, 10:05 a.m.

Former President Donald Trump (R) is now the presumptive Republican Party presidential nominee. Although he has not yet attained the necessary 1,215 delegates, Trump’s last opponent—former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (R)—announced today that she is suspending her campaign. Barring any unusual developments, Trump is now all-but-certain to win the nomination. He is expected to be formally nominated at the Republican National Convention in July.

Trump is a real estate businessman who was elected president in 2016 with no previous political experience. He served one term and was defeated by now-President Joe Biden (D) in 2020. Trump is a controversial figure; he was impeached (and acquitted) twice during his presidency and has faced numerous criminal charges since leaving office.

On the Democratic side, incumbent President Joe Biden (D) is widely expected to win his party’s nomination, but he still faces two minor challengers and has not yet won the necessary 1,968 delegate majority. The Democratic National Convention, where Biden is likely to be formally nominated, will be held in August.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.

Since we have the obligation to obey our conscience, we also have the great responsibility to see that it is formed in a way that reflects the true moral good.

Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.

Nations are the wealth of mankind, its collective personalities; the very least of them wears its own special colors and bears within itself a special facet of God’s design.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Talk does not cook rice.

Evil is not something that can be condescended to, waved aside, or smiled away, for it is not merely an uninvited guest, but lies coiled . . . at home with good within ourselves. Evil can only be fought.

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

In the real world, in the everyday lives of billions of believers—not least of them scientists—faith and reason coexist without contradiction.

Society can only exist when a great number of men consider a great number of things in the same point of view; when they hold the same opinions upon many subjects. . . .

Conscience has rights because it has duties.

Here is the thing you must bear in mind: I do not represent public opinion; I represent the public. There is a wide difference between the two, between the real interests of the public, and the public’s opinion of these interests.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

I prefer a Church which is bruised, hurting, and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a Church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security.

In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.

If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed, that event may be attributed to the unlimited authority of the majority, which may at some future time urge the minorities to desperation, and oblige them to have recourse to physical force.