Rick, I hear that all the time. But if one looks at the party breakdown as to who those republicans and democrats plan on voting for. It’s equal. 87% of democrats plan on voting for Biden, 2% for Trump. 87% Republicans say they’ll vote for Trump, 3% for Biden. The rest are stating they’ll vote third party, undecided or will not vote. That is below the historical average of both major parties faithful voting for their party’s candidate 94% of the time.

https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabReport_lMxEeEw.pdf

The last time the party faithful voted below the historical average for their candidate was in 2016 when 89% of democrats voted for Clinton, 8% for Trump, 88% of republicans voted for Trump, 8% for Clinton.

https://www.cnn.com/election/2016/results/exit-polls/national/president

Like you, I always thought once the trials start that will hurt Trump. But will it? The 91 federal indictments had no effect. The New York civil fraud trial and the E.J. Carrol trial, verdicts have had no effect. Trump maintain his average lead of 1 to 2 points over Biden in the polls all through those. We’ll just have to wait and see.

The bottom line so far is Biden has his poor job performance in the eyes of most Americans, he has the age and mental acuity issues with most Americans. Trump has his legal problems which most Americans find offensive, his obnoxious, rude, uncouth personality makes him easy to dislike. Both have a lot of liabilities this time around when in 2020 it was only Trump with the liabilities. I can’t understand or see why democrats can’t see or acknowledge this. But it is what it is.

I firmly believe a fresh, younger candidate, a candidate without Biden’s liabilities would be trouncing Trump by 10 or more points than being in a basic tie. But that is my belief. Apparently, it isn’t anyone else’s. One last thing, looking at how the people feel about the candidates running. All Americans, 13% enthusiastic about Biden, 42% upset that he’s the democratic nominee. Democrats only, 33% enthusiastic, 8% upset. Trump being the GOP nominee, 26% of all Americans are enthusiastic, 43% upset. Republicans only, 59% enthusiastic, 8% upset. That’s a lot of Americans upset that both Trump and Biden are the major party nominees. Questions 25A and 25B for the full breakdown.

https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabReport_lMxEeEw.pdf

It's high past time that we start electing Americans to congress and the presidency who put America first instead of their political party. For way too long we have been electing Republicans and Democrats who happen to be Americans instead of Americans who happen to be Republicans and Democrats.