“Two things I learned last couple of weeks,” Joe Biden said at a CNN town hall on Tuesday. “One, [Russian President Vladimir] Putin doesn’t want me to be president. And number two, that this guy Trump doesn’t want me to be the nominee.”

On the latter point, the former vice president is surely correct. The gradual decline of Biden’s once-promising campaign for president is widely interpreted as good news for the Trump White House. According to the New York Times, Trump leads other Democrats, but not Biden, in polls of critical swing states such as Florida, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Michigan.