It can be easy to overlook something when it's been cleverly hidden from you. That appears to be the case here with Glenn Youngkin's sly indication that he won't be running for president in 2024:
During a Q&A session at an event in California hosted by the Milken Institute, an economic think tank, Youngkin, a Republican, responded "no" when he was asked whether he had plans to get out on the presidential campaign trail later "this year." ...
"I haven't written a book, and I'm not in Iowa. I'm spending time representing Virginia this year," Youngkin said when he was pressed by the moderator, Wall Street Journal editor-at-large Gerard Baker, at Monday's event.
I look at that and I think:
But wait: Look closer. What did he say? "I'm spending time representing Virginia this year."
This year. What's that key word?
I think His Honor is trying to tell us something. A presidential race takes a long time. It never just involves the one year in which the election itself takes place. He might not be running "this" year. But what about next year?
Sure enough, the man's people came up behind him to set the record straight. Sort of.
"I would refer you to the governor's original comments and the question, which directly asked about this year," Macaulay Porter said in an email. ...
An aide said the moderator "was clearly asking about this year, and the governor was answering with that in mind."
There it is!
