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Yet despite Biden’s unprecedented vulnerabilities, Donald Trump is currently leading him by just 1.2 points in the RealClearPolitics average — a statistical tie. The Republican front-runner should be crushing Biden in the polls, but he’s not. Why? Because Trump is nearly as unpopular as Biden.

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Right now, Trump benefits from having been out of the daily media spotlight for the past three years. But as his trials begin and he starts to campaign in earnest, Americans will be reminded why they threw him out in 2020. And, as they do in every presidential election, the polls will tighten before November. Trump’s current narrow lead has some Democrats panicking that Biden might lose. In truth, it is Republicans who should be panicking that Biden might win.

It doesn’t have to be this way. The election will be decided by a few thousand swing voters in a handful of battleground states. Democrats were shocked by the results of a November New York Times-Siena College poll that showed Trump narrowly leading Biden in key battleground states. Well, that same poll showed Nikki Haley defeating Biden by 7 points in Arizona (compared with 5 points for Trump), 10 points in Michigan (compared with 5 points for Trump), 10 points in Pennsylvania (compared with 4 points for Trump) and 13 points in Wisconsin (where Trump loses by 2 points).

The poll also found that “a majority of swing state voters view [Trump] negatively.” Do Republicans want a nominee these voters will have to choke down their bile to vote for? Or do they want a nominee they can enthusiastically support? Numerous polls show Haley defeating Biden by double digits, the only GOP contender with such a lead. A December Wall Street Journal poll finds her ahead of Biden by 17 points (13 points more than Trump in the same poll). Haley also leads Biden by 10 points in the December Messenger-HarrisX poll, and 12 points in the November Marquette poll.

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The choice is simple: One GOP candidate is neck-and-neck with the most unpopular president in modern history, and one crushes him. Ask most Democrats which Republican they fear most as the GOP........

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