Even if his aides had been blunter with Trump, he might not have believed them. He had spent months attacking Biden in the starkest personal terms. He had hit Biden’s age, his mental competence, his family. Trump did not want to run against Democratic policies. He wanted to run against a person, to rip him down, to insult, belittle, and degrade him. By the end, Trump seemed to believe his own pitch—making losing to Biden all the more unacceptable, impossible even. “I am running against the worst candidate in the history of presidential politics,” Trump said as he closed out the campaign. “Can
...more
