‘Déjà Vu All Over Again’: Senators Say the 2024 Race Is Suddenly Looking Like 2016

A woman atop the Democratic ticket. GOP lawmakers dodging the press. Trump. Birtherism. The 2024 election has a bit of everything that made 2016 memorable.

Lisa Murkowski
Sen. Lisa Murkowski talks to reporters on Capitol Hill. J. Scott Applewhite/AP

Almost everyone expected the 2024 presidential campaign to be a retread of Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s 2020 showdown. But after Biden stepped aside and Kamala Harris stepped in, this presidential election is suddenly looking like a markedly different election year: 2016.

“Déjà vu all over again,” Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski told NOTUS, summoning Yogi Berra.

“This week I’ve been surrounded by different reporters all beginning their inquiry with, ‘What do you have to say about what Trump just said?’” Murkowski added. “And that’s what 2016 was all about. Every day.”