In the same way that reporters gave FDR covered for being in a wheelchair,

reporters appear to be giving Donald Trump cover for atrocious farts or something like that. Heh.

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With Matback from Vacation and a bunch of important developments in the news, we're going to zoom out a bit to assess whether the race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump really has changed.

When we launched politics a few months ago,

Biden was really squarely behind in head-to-head polls against Trump.

But the polling picture has improved at least somewhat in the past few weeks and the surrounding

developments sort of raise the question of whether the Biden campaign's theory of

the case has been vindicated. I hope you enjoy the conversation and if you want to hear the whole thing you can

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hey everyone welcome to the politics podcast. I'm Brian Boiler. I'm Matthew Giseus.

So a few weeks back when the primaries were still technically unfolding and polls looked really bleak and

liberals were agonizing over whether

Joe Biden should find some pretext to to drop out and maybe name a successor.

The Democratic pollster Simon Rosenberg said, in essence, this is all super premature.

This fake primary that we're living through will be over soon,

and then the actual race will come into focus for voters and by late April or early May I predict Biden will be up a point or two in the polls with room to grow.

Here we are in late April and in the most literal reading of things, I kind

of think Simon's been pretty well vindicated. But Matt, why don't you give me the best case,

well I guess like in either direction,

either that Simon's right and Biden has room to grow

and things are looking up,

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