“Even as the Biden reelection campaign forges ahead with preparations for another potential general election match-up between Biden and his predecessor, it is grappling with a stubborn reality: The majority of undecided voters simply do not seem to believe – at least not yet – that Donald Trump is likely to be the Republican presidential nominee,” CNN reports, the sentence above we copied verbatim to underscore how weird this characterization of the situation, which further down in the report says nearly 75 percent of respondents to internal polls are under this notion, is.
That’s like one of the least bad problems Biden could have right now, because barring Trump dying of a massive heart attack on stage, he will be the nominee and it will take care of itself when he wins. Now getting it out of the way that nobody who wants Trump to lose and die in prison eventually is happy to see poll numbers with either a close race or with Trump ahead right now. Of course everyone wants that and not the creeping dread as the clock ticks toward November.
That’s not the timeline we’re living in. We’re also living in one where all the doomerism about Trump winning again is slowly but sure starting to look more like a sand castle than a rock.