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Who’s Ahead — Joe or Trump?

Mike Weisser
3 min readApr 9, 2024

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All of a sudden, like outta’ nowhere, all those polls which had Trump way ahead of Joe have been replaced by polls which show the two guys to be basically tied. And for all the talk about how Trump is leading in the so-called ‘battleground’ states, those polls are essentially tied as well.

Newsweek refers to Joe’s polling numbers as an ‘astonishing comeback,’ but their shock and surprise reflects how the Fake News has been trying to ramp up its click numbers by all kinds of shrill and fearful headlines about Joe’s performance in order to attract attention to the 2024 campaign before it even began.

You see, the problem when you have an election which is basically contested by only two political parties is that until both parties and their candidates square off against each other, you don’t have an election campaign.

Now in the case of Trump, what kept him in the news over the past six months was the 90-odd criminal indictments that he’s facing, which is certainly more of a newsworthy item than competing in GOP primaries against nobodies like Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy or Tim Scott.

Furthermore, Trump was not only campaigning on a daily basis during the GOP primary season, in fact he has been campaigning more or less for the past four years. Since January 2022, Trump has held more than 60 of his large rallies, more than…

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Mike Weisser
Mike Weisser

Written by Mike Weisser

Former college professor, IT Vice-President, bone fide gun nut, https://www.teeteepress.net/

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