MORE BAD NEWS FOR BIDEN: IS IT ‘ROSY RETROSPECTION’ OR JUST FACT? The 2024 presidential election is extraordinary in a lot of ways, but especially in this one: Voters can judge the presidential job performance of both major candidates. It has only happened once before, in 1892, when former President Grover Cleveland ran against incumbent President Benjamin Harrison. (Cleveland won and became the only U.S. president, so far, to serve two nonconsecutive terms.)

This extraordinary situation — because both men have served as president, voters can compare the job each did — is at the heart of new polling from the Wall Street Journal. And the news is far better for the former president, Donald Trump, than the sitting president, Joe Biden.