The new gal at Power Line, Elizabeth Stauffer, writes about how personalities on ABC News’ The Week were stunned at polls showing President Biden and former President Trump tied at 46% in the race to be the next president.
At least before Covid overwhelmed everything, Trump was the far better president and people remember this. He presided over a better economy, no vast military disappointments, and reduced infiltration at our southern border. When he spoke he didn’t appear addled. On the basis of demonstrated performance in office, he should be far ahead.
On the other hand, aided by a tame media complex and the cover provided by the presidency, Biden has managed to avoid being charged for his manifest wrong-doings, enriching himself at the expense of selling influence upon his country’s policy to shady foreigners and sometimes bragging about it on TV.
With no such protection, Trump has accumulated four indictments that smell like politically motivated prosecution. None of them involves something the average person understands to be “crime” - harming someone physically or stealing their property.
Trump’s supposed wrong-doings inhabit the unclear border region between free speech and incitement to illegality. It’s an area where slack can be granted or withheld at the whim of a DA. Lately, too many DAs have earned a bad reputation letting violent criminals walk while persecuting political enemies.
Bottom line: No one should be surprised a demonstrably better president has pulled even, in spite of the prosecutorial baggage he has acquired.
