WaPo: The polls are inconclusive. Advantage Biden.

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6. KICK

Finally, though some congressional Democrats are arguing that Biden dooms their electoral chances and should step aside to protect the rest of the party, the polls aren’t showing that either. Democratic U.S. Senate candidates are ahead in states where Biden trails. Polls show a very tight race for control of the House.

I don’t want to overstate my case here. The panic about Biden among Democrats is driven by polling, which suggests that if the election were today he would lose to Trump and potentially in a landslide. He could drag the entire party down to his level, giving Republicans total control in Washington next year.

Worries about Biden’s effects downballot are reportedly the concerns of Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who on Wednesday called for Biden to leave the race, becoming perhaps the most high-profile member of Congress to do so.

But over the past three weeks, a series of polls showing Biden down double-digits in swing states or Whitmer substantially ahead in all of them would have doomed the president. Those polls never showed up. The president has long been publicly dismissive of polling. He might want to rethink that view. The polls allowed a man who performed worse in a general election debate than any other candidate in memory to remain in the race.

Makes 100% sense to me.