The level of anxiety settling over the Democratic political landscape could be measured in the frenetic reaction to the weekend’s polls from within quarters friendly toward the Biden White House.
Sure, the New York Times confessed, the Siena College survey the Times sponsored finds Donald Trump beating Joe Biden by a healthy margin in five of the six swing states it covered. But a supplemental analysis elsewhere in the paper argued that, while Trump’s criminal indictments have yet to undermine his political position, “around 6 percent of voters” in those six swing states said that “if the former president is convicted and sentenced . . . they would switch their votes to Mr. Biden.”
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