Underestimate Trump’s Chances in 2024 at Your Peril

A bartender wearing watches the U.S. presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden at a bar in Clawson, Michigan, on Oct. 22, 2020.

Photographer: Emily Elconin/Bloomberg

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It was a shocker of a poll, drawing derision and defensiveness, that over the weekend showed former US President Donald Trump 10 percentage points clear of the incumbent, Joe Biden.