As next week's debate approaches, we are still almost five months away from Election Day. The irony of this early start to all the debates, ads, and campaign events to come is that both Joe Biden and Donald Trump are so well known that all these things still won't likely change many minds.

There will be millions of weary voters, especially in the battleground states, by the time the candidates finally reach the finish line.

And after June's debate, we will find out whether the failed, felonious former president needs a cell mate, a running mate or both. Trump’s sentencing on 34 felony convictions takes place in New York on July 11. That’s only four days before the beginning of the Republican National Convention with the beautiful skyline of Ho Chi Minh City — excuse me, Milwaukee — as the backdrop. Judge Juan Merchan will deliver the sentence but will not preside over the GOP confab.

The first joint candidate encounter of 2024 between the two presidential standard bearers is the just the first step in the lighting round of campaign calendar events.

During the first debate in 2020, Trump seemed woefully unprepared and demonstrably hostile toward his opponent, so much so that he talked over Biden while he was speaking. At one point, the Democrat responded with “Will you........

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