2016 was a referendum on Hillary. Trump’s losing 2020 because it’s a referendum on him

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After electing the first black and first female presidential candidates, Democrats have settled on a septuagenarian white man who’s clearly lost a step in the past four years. In a party dominated by diversity requirements and an intersectional hierarchy, the mantle of the party’s future has fallen on Joe Biden, who, if elected, would be older on his Inauguration Day than Ronald Reagan, our oldest president ever, was on his last day in office.

And by every measure, Biden will win come November for two simple reasons: Voters dislike and distrust him significantly less than they did Hillary Clinton. Furthermore, it seems clear that amid a pandemic and economic fallout that’s put the president’s persona on center stage, they revile President Trump even more than they hated Clinton.

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