Opinion: This Election Was Supposed to Be About Trump, Right?
How did Joe Biden manage it? It’s a remarkable feat. For the last three-and-a-half years the president has been telling us that this November’s election will be a referendum on Donald Trump’s fitness for office.
Not any more.
Over the course of the last two weeks Biden’s own fitness for office has become the only show in town. On the political website The Hill on Wednesday, nine of the leading dozen stories were about Biden—and not in a good way. You can glean that from headlines that had words like “landslide” and “ditch”. The only Trump story among them? “Marla Maples open to serving as Trump VP.”