Joe Biden’s re-election bid is in trouble
The Democrats’ bet looks increasingly risky
The front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination is under indictment for 91 felonies in four criminal cases, and he probably is, as one of his primary opponents remarked during the recent Republican debate, the most disliked politician in America. Democrats have reason to be smug at the prospect of Donald Trump as the Republican nominee—unless they take a hard look at the vulnerabilities of their own standard-bearer.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Unpopularity contest”
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