Morning Jolt: Here Comes the 2024 Presidential-Candidate Stampede

On the menu today: The Charleston, S.C., Post and Courier has the scoop that former South Carolina governor and U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley will formally announce she is running for president around the middle of this month. This means the indisputably impressive Haley is going to be the subject of a lot of media profiles in the coming weeks and months, a part of how the media introduces presidential candidates to the public as a primary approaches. But lately, I've been wondering whether the generally credulous coverage of aspiring presidents amounts to enabling the delusions of grandeur for political figures who don't really have much of a chance of getting elected, adding to the ever-growing fields of long-shot candidates crowding the debate stages.

Glowing Profiles Don’t Make Presidents

In a recent conversation with my colleagues, I played devil's advocate and offered a proposal that I'm not sure I really believe but feel like should be on the table and chewed over anyway: We shouldn't write nice profiles of presidential candidates.

This doesn't mean that presidential candidates shouldn't be ...

WITH JIM GERAGHTY February 01 2023 WITH JIM GERAGHTY February 01 2023 Here Comes the 2024 Presidential-Candidate Stampede On the menu today: The Charleston, S.C., Post and Courier has the scoop that former South Carolina governor and U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley will formally announce she is running for president around the middle of this month. This means the indisputably impressive Haley is going to be the subject of a lot of media profiles in the coming weeks and months, a part of how the media introduces presidential candidates to the public as a primary approaches. But lately, I've been wondering whether the generally credulous coverage of aspiring presidents amounts to enabling the delusions of grandeur for political figures who don't really have much of a chance of getting elected, adding to the ever-growing fields of long-shot candidates crowding the debate stages. Glowing Profiles Don’t Make Presidents In a recent conversation with my colleagues, I played devil's advocate and offered a proposal that I'm not sure I really believe but feel like should be on the table and chewed over anyway: We shouldn't write nice profiles of presidential candidates. This doesn't mean that presidential candidates shouldn't be ...   READ MORE

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