Sorry, President Biden, You Would Not Have Beaten Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : You didn't have to be riveted to campaign coverage to grasp that every single thing that boosted the Democratic Party's odds of beating Trump -- the radical turnaround in fundraising, the huge boost in volunteers, the successful national convention, and, indeed, the widespread expectation that Harris had a good chance to win -- flowed from Biden's courageous but correct decision to withdraw his candidacy and designate her as his successor.
56% : Almost immediately, Harris led Trump in the same averages and never trailed.
52% : When he dropped out, Biden trailed Trump by 3.2 percent in the FiveThirtyEight polling averages and had trailed him for a month.
38% : So as we anticipate what could be the immensely consequential presidency of Donald Trump, we should close the books on this particular question.
35% : This is not a small gap; it suggests that if Biden had been the Democratic nominee, Trump would have truly won a landslide instead of imagining one, as he did after the actual election.
29% : There's never any way to prove counterfactuals, but we do have some pretty solid data rebutting Biden's apparent belief that his self-defenestration saved Trump from defeat.
4% : Everything we know about Trump's final, crucial surge of support indicates a negative referendum on Joe Biden's record in office and a positive reassessment of what Trump might offer, rather than anything Kamala Harris was or was not doing.

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