Washington July 13, 2023

Mitch McConnell and other leading Republicans have a spring in their step. Despite the summer heat. Rumours of a McConnell smile were doing the rounds.

The wellspring of this holiday joy is polls showing that 20% of Democrats prefer Robert F Kennedy Jr over Joe Biden.

Republican leaders believe that if a large rump of the college educated liberal elite prefer a vaccine sceptic who argues that chemicals cause gender dysphoria over Joe Biden, then Donald Trump has November 2024 in the bag.

As a Republican spokesman said “Republican voters are rational. What’s not to like about a candidate whose only weakness is a love of populist dictators, well done hamburgers and a misplaced belief in his sex appeal”.

Once again. We are at the mercy of the wisdom of crowds.