Eighteen months is an eternity in politics.
However rapid-fire and high-profile occasions over the previous week have set the tone and clarified the stakes of a nonetheless nascent presidential race that includes an incumbent president and a Republican front-runner whom many Individuals, in line with polling, don’t need as their selections — however might really feel resigned to simply accept.
The week started with a shocking ballot — in all probability an outlier — that confirmed President Biden shedding to each former President Donald J. Trump…