A new national survey of registered voters by NBC News finds disgraced former President Trump leading President Joe Biden 46 to 44 percent in a head-to-head matchup, which is not great but an improvement over their last national sample in January which found Trump up 47 to 42 percent, thus continuing the “narrative” that “the polls are tightening” and libs should believe them again.

However the real dickpunch to the “horserace” assholes comes with the five-way test of the presidential race when Russian assets Robert F Kennedy Jr, Jill Stein, and Cornel West are included in the field, finding Biden leading at 39 percent to Trump’s 37 percent, RFK Jr’s 13 percent, Stein 3 percent, and West 2 percent. Quite a damning result to those who have told us over and over and over again that Bobby Jr is a bigger threat to Biden than he is to Trump despite the observable reality that an anti-vax conspiracy dipshit would have far more appeal to that demographic than most Dem constituencies. Even NBC seems kind of flustered over it, writing “Notably, the poll shows a greater share of Trump voters from the head-to-head matchup supporting Kennedy in the expanded ballot compared with Biden voters, different than the results of some other surveys.”

So keep an eye on the multi-candidate numbers (also there’s still no Libertarian being included in these, who the hell knows what’s going on with those assclowns this year) while also operating under the assumption that most of these early registered voter polls are horseshit and we’re only picking this up as a “fuck you” to those that do take them seriously… Oh wait, there’s one other finding you might like: NBC says respondents’ interest in voting is at its lowest level in April of the last five presidential election years, down to 64 percent from 77 percent in April 2020.

We keep saying this and we’ll say it again – That’s actually (probably) good since it means more highly engaged voters, the ones who show up for the special and off-year elections that Dems have been crushing since 2022 are going to end up making a larger percentage of the electorate. The Nates and all the other eggheads keep telling us the specials/off-year wins don’t mean anything for Biden v Trump because the turnout in those races is not what we’ll be seeing in November. If that’s correct then it must also be correct that lower turnout will help save American democracy.