Wednesday brought a polling number Fox News fans were not hoping for from their own operation: Biden 50 percent to Trump 48 in a head-to-head, a 7 point net swing in Joe’s favor from March. That was the bad news the morning crew were breaking to viewers when they segued into more expectations management for next week’s big debate by uncritically para-quoting Trump’s claims that Biden will be “jacked up” on performance-enhancing drugs before he argues with a similarly aged man with far graver physical and mental health issues on live television for 90 minutes or so.
In related news, Brainwormed third-party candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr officially unqualified for the debate Thursday as he has not reached neither the minimum 15 percent support in at least four major national polls nor officially on the ballot in states totaling 270 electoral votes threshold.