Republicans are launching their presidential race with wind at their backs and it’s not because of President Joe Biden’s mental incapacity or former president Donald Trump’s courageous, fist-pumping response to an attempted assassination.

Voters are switching allegiance out of disgust with the Democratic Party’s pro-inflation, pro-criminal, open border policies.

More voters identify as Republicans or say they lean Republican than identify or lean Democrat. It’s a stunning development. After trailing for seven years, the Republican Party has the edge — 47% to 46% — according to Pew’s latest data, collected before Biden’s disastrous June 28 debate and the assassination attempt.

The Republican brand is leading over the Democrat brand.

The left-wing media are apoplectic. New York Times columnist Frank Bruni scorns GOP convention goers as “a gathering of villagers with torches” — his version of Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables.”

Bruni claims Republicans are pulling ahead only because Democrats are in disarray over Biden’s fumbling,........

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