Forget the established polls—Washington Post/ABC News, Times/Siena, Quinnipiac, Pew, 538, all of them. For an accurate reading on Trump fatigue, look no further than the Attention-Whore Index. Because how else to interpret these findings? Last week, the criminal defendant and presumptive Republican nominee for president, a perennial A.W.I. contender (and often winner), barely managed to finish third—at 15.9 percent, not far ahead of (speaking of fatigue) the tiresome Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Second place went to the Sussexes (20.8 percent), who are showing disturbing signs of wanting to seep back into public consciousness, like mold through drywall. The easy winner? Governor Kristi Noem, that spectacularly dentitioned scourge of canines everywhere, with 31.9 percent. Noem, whose self-inflicted political troubles in recent months have been a marvel to behold, might have polled even higher if more of her memoir had trickled out before our deadline. But there’s time enough for that.
