John Heilemann: Trump at the Top of the Republican Ticket Is a Golden Pathway for Biden Re-Election

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HEILEMANN: "Well, I mean, there might be one better scenario, Joe, which is the one we were laying out at the top of the block, which is Donald Trump not winning the Republican nomination and deciding that he wants to run as an independent and tear the party into shreds. I mean, Joe Biden is blessed. The man has the luck of the Irish when it comes to Donald Trump, because it’s kind of a 'Heads, I win, tails, you lose' thing for him. You know, Trump becomes the nominee, and we all have learned now over time, painfully, that the man can’t win a national election, he can’t win a popular vote contest against probably any Democrat, but certainly not Joe Biden. And threading that -- running through the eye of the needle there in the Electoral College is getting to be tougher and tougher when you’re as unpopular with large swaths of the country as Donald Trump. So, Trump at the top of the Republican ticket is a golden pathway for re-election for Joe Biden.”