The 2024 Presidential Election

During New Statecraft Institute’s earliest days, it addressed America’s 2024 presidential election in three powerful ways.

     The Institute created the Elections Reality Project, a compendium of testimonials from widely respected public officials, academics, journalists, and third-party verifiers across a broad ideological spectrum, establishing that the outcome of the 2020 presidential election was not determined by vote fraud. Regardless of how one judges his performance as President, the 2024 race prominently featured the astonishing allegation by Trump that he won the 2020 election and that Joe Biden was given the presidency by fraud. NSI recognized that Trump’s allegations of fraud in the 2020 presidential election were so destructive that the Institute sought to provide conclusive and undeniable proof of their falsity. To this end, our database has documented for posterity that Trump’s allegations are damnable and must be forever refuted and condemned as a slander against democracy.

     Second, the Institute published in The Washington Post a half-page advertorial titled “Finding the Strongest Presidential Nominee.” In August 2023, New Statecraft argued emphatically that the Democratic Party should not coronate Joe Biden with the party’s nomination. Even at that early date, the Party was on track to re-nominate Biden without any nationally recognized challenger. The article considered the merits of recruiting such a challenger. It also outlined a radically more ambitious presidential platform that went far beyond tepid and inconsequential tinkering with the status quo.

    Third, Research Director Thomas O’Brien published the Bolder Answers Blog which proposed several specific changes to the Harris-Walz platform. These blog posts featured proposals from well outside the politics-as-usual pablum typical of the duopoly. For example, the Blog urged the campaign to make concrete commitments to bipartisanship, including a Cabinet comprised substantially of moderate Republicans (like Senators Corker, Flake, Murkowski, Portman, or Romney). The Institute still emphatically maintains that such a bipartisan spirit would have served the nation nobly, and that adopting many of the proposals from the Blog would have ensured a decisive Harris-Walz victory.

     We invite readers to peruse these inaugural projects of the Institute, available via the hypertext links above.