After several weeks of frankly listless attention-grabbing, Donald Trump won his second straight poll handily, with 39.5 percent. (Accepting a $400 million gift from another country helped, as did his golf Gulf tour.) Joe Biden—even before the announcement of his cancer diagnosis—rode the wave of those underwhelming rehab interviews and the publication of the first of several legacy-diminishing books to second place (19.2 percent). Third place went to the eternal Sussexes (17.8 percent) and fourth to A.W.I.’s most promising newcomer—now that Elon Musk has crawled back under his rock—Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (14 percent).
More fun and games ahead. But first:
