Biden Is Likely Better Off Than the Polls Suggest

[JohnSJ]

4. In other words the national polls indicate a dead heat. I think

Zakaria‘s assessment is wrong also for the simple fact that trying to extrapolate this with what happened in 2016 Is nonsense because it ignores what happened 11 days before the 2016 general election. Hillary was leading in all polls before Comey sent a letter to the republicans in Congress saying they were trying to determine if this was new information, and the media immediately misrepresented that and falsely said the email investigation had been reopened, followed by parading every right wing pundit across various outlets perpetuating that lie. It was only late Friday, the weekend before the general election, that Comey quietly came out and said there was no additional information to reopen the email investigation.

The damage had been done by that time, and the lead Hillary had was completely erased.