Needed: Routine Miracles

It’s not too far back to recall that the whole idea of Donald Trump winning the 2024 presidential election and returning to the White House was nothing less than a miracle.

The Democrats and an assortment of Trump detractors tried every trick in the book to derail his presidential ambitions. Through some circuitous maneuvering, some allege they may have inspired or hired two would-be assassins to take Trump’s life. One of the gunmen was killed on the spot by Secret Service sharpshooters and the other is on trial in Florida.

Sid Rosenberg and Anthony D’Espositoi

Aside from that, there was a series of indictments and even trials that were not really intended to convict Trump of anything, but to plant the idea in the mind of the public that Trump was simply not qualified to serve in the Oval Office.

Each one of these diabolical schemes involved dragged-out prosecutorial efforts that slowly but surely fell apart and oddly enough, worked in Trump’s favor, leading to his tremendous victory back in November 2024. Trump bested former Vice President Kamala Harris by millions of votes and it was as clear as day that this is what the American people wanted.

So here we are. Now what?

After more than a year in office, Trump has accomplished great things for the world. The Trump objective from the start was to end wars and save lives. The Democrats see things in an exact opposite fashion. They support war and a few thousand lives here or there doesn’t amount to a hill of beans in their grand scheme of things.

War makes big money for the Democrats. Case in point was the dispatch with which Joe Biden sent $350 billion to Ukraine despite the fact that they were being bombed back several centuries by the Russians.

On the matter of Israel, despite the rightness of their cause and the similarities between the U.S. and Israeli societies, even Jews in the Senate like Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders, or Congressmen like Dan Goldman of Brooklyn were okay with Israel being defeated so long as the millions and billions were flowing properly in their direction.

Now the country is gearing up for an all-important mid-term election which, generally speaking, the party that does not control the White House can lose either by a slim margin or take a whopping.

The sense today is that the way things are going, the Republicans will likely lose their slim majority, which would put Democrats in control, and that means the Democrats would control the national agenda going forward.

The hostility directed at Trump from the Democrats is so intense that a result like handing the Democrats a majority in the House can only mean one thing—impeachment.

That is, unless the Democrats learned an important lesson from the last go-round. That means that so long as the Republicans maintain a majority in the Senate, which is expected, their impeachment hearings and cases mean next to nothing.

Last time they played the impeachment card they zigzagged their way into a Biden presidential victory, which was one of their greatest electoral disasters that resulted in the miraculous Trump return of 2024.

So, while impeachment is in their 2026 playbook, it may backfire on them once again if they go ahead and try the same shtick.

In New York, the big race will be the one for Governor in a contest that will most likely see the incumbent Kathy Hochul facing off against Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman.

Before Hochul gets to run against Blakeman, she must first win a primary campaign against her Lieutenant Governor Antonio Delgado, a former congressman from the Hudson Valley in upstate New York. Delgado is married to a Jewish woman, Lacey Schwartz, and they have two boys they are raising as Jewish.

Last year, I heard Delgado speak at a Jewish organizational dinner, where he proudly spoke about raising his twin boys Jewish and how he is currently preparing them for their bar mitzvah. At the same time and in the current Democratic Party-political climate, Delgado seems to be courting support from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has yet to endorse the incumbent Hochul.

To that end, Delgado, with his confusing interest in Judaism and “support” for Israel, has not hesitated to say that Israel is committing war crimes and that Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal. Delgado has also called for the U.S. to halt all arms sales to Israel. You can feel the room warming up once Delgado and Mamdani get together. It conjures up the old adage: “With friends like these, who needs enemies?”

It just might be that Blakeman’s best chance of winning in November is if he runs against Delgado. The problem with Hochul is that she has effective name recognition while Delgado does not. Actually, the Mets once had a player named Delgado, but he’s not running for anything this year.

Bruce Blakeman is a popular and effective County Executive, but New York and Nassau County are imbalanced toward the Democrats. Win or lose, Blakeman is strong enough on Long Island to pull a few Republican congressional candidates into office, contributing significantly to the chances for the Republicans to maintain an edge in the House.

Among those running, some predict in all likelihood it will be newly-confirmed Inspector General of the Department of Labor and former Congressman Anthony D’Esposito against Democrat incumbent Laura Gillen.

Also, we will likely have Mike LiPetri running against Democratic incumbent, Tom Suozzi. These two among a plethora of others will determine the direction this country heads going forward in the post 2026 era.

According to the way these elections historically go, and it’s still early at this juncture, things are not looking great for the Republicans. But this just might be where miracles come into the picture.

In reality, there is something of an electoral tug-of-war taking place over what America’s political future looks like. The legacy media, which is virulently anti-Trump, would like us to believe that the Republicans maintaining their control of the House is a lost cause at this early stage of the process.

Many of the reliable polls indicate that a majority of the respondents are satisfied with the way Trump is running the country. The word of the year in political circles is “affordability” which in effect was the word or idea that Mamdani used to win in New York last year.

More than anything, affordability is just another Democratic deception, as the way it looks now, none of the mayor’s ideas like free buses or free food will be coming to fruition anytime soon. In fact, Mamdani cannot budge without Governor Hochul raising taxes, which is not the best policy to implement, not when you’re trying to get re-elected.

That might give Mamdani the opportunity to opt out of his support for Hochul and move in the direction of support for Delgado for Governor.

For now, especially if you take your predictions from TV or Cable News as well as from the pattern of past electoral history, then it does not look great for Trump and the Republicans.

But then again, Donald Trump is where he is today because of a series of miracles that made him president. It was David Ben Gurion, Israel’s first Prime Minister, who said about Israel and it applies here too: “In order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.”

So, we are not depending on miracles going forward, just hoping for them, expecting them, and praying for them.

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