I accept this idea, but I'm just really having trouble with the notion that "vaccines!" is enough to get someone over the finish line. "Thoughtful" people already know that Trump rarely explicitly badmouthed the vaccines, did praise and encourage them on occasion, and also really didn't do nearly as much as he could have to encourage them during a critical period when it would have helped a lot.
The COVID19/pandemic political narrative is going to stay relevant in 2022 and 2024.
The actual favorite to get the DNC ticket at this point is Gavin Newsom. I don't care what the oddsmakers say about it, right now he's got a better chance than any of the other "contenders" Much of what happens with Newsom is how it is perceived he handled the pandemic and the status of all his extramarital affairs. At minimum one instance has been mostly buried in the national daily media cycle but that can't hold forever.
The goal of DNC HQ since Biden took office is to wipe out the political weight of Greg Abbott (TX) and Ron DeSantis (FL). So the COVID19 narrative here won't change much either as what happens in Florida for the next three years is the largest factor in RDS' contender status.
Trump wants to take credit for the vaccine while the Democratic Party is very vulnerable to their pandemic response.
DNC HQ wants to assess the vaccine on Trump and the boosters to Biden so when children start dying, they can push the blame off onto both of them. You can't vaccinate this many people and this many children and not have some kind of adverse reaction somewhere. Sending the elderly off to die in nursing homes is one thing. Children are essentially "strict liability" timebombs in terms of political capital.
Why is smearing Trump bad for Republicans now. Plenty of radical leftists in here and out there want to smear Trump as much as possible. Go ahead. The only way the Democratic Party has a chance to hold POTUS in 2024 is if Trump runs. So keep smearing him, make it harder for him to run, and then watch the GOP take the 2022 Mid Terms and the 2024 general cycle.
The more and more people in general smear Trump, the more of a message it sends to Ronna McDaniel and RNC HQ that Trump cannot receive full Party support because it's a losing ticket.
Every radical leftist zealot here who screams out Smear The Cheeto is actually doing every Conservative in the country a favor. Many of you are unpaid advertising for the end goal of the GOP.