Less than two years from now, during Joe Biden’s first midterm election — and assuredly four years from now, during the next presidential contest — one of the two parties is likely to raise an inevitable question: “Are you better off now than you were two — or four — years ago, when Donald Trump was president?”
The fight over the framing of that question has already begun. …
Biden’s team ought to be able to hold Trump responsible for many of the nation’s problems through the spring and summer, possibly even to the end of the year. But when the calendar turns to 2022, history suggests Biden and his party will have been in “control” long enough that voters will start assigning credit/blame to them for the nation’s condition. CONTINUED
Stuart Rothenberg, Roll Call