America’s next presidential election is 13 months away. But while the first Republican primary votes will not be cast until the dead of winter, the last week of September 2023 may come to be seen as the moment when the extraordinary implications of the fight for the White House crystallized.
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, the GOP front-runner, hit swing states as though they were in the race’s final stretch rather than its prologue. And the futile attempts of Trump’s GOP rivals to break through at the GOP presidential debate in California only cemented a growing impression that theirs is a race for second place.
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