'A rematch nobody wants' is the media narrative nobody needs

Haven’t you heard? The 2024 election, which will now almost certainly pit President Joe Biden against Donald Trump, will be the ”Rematch that nobody wants.” And so you don’t forget, the media keeps pulling out all the stops to remind you of that fact—again and again and again.

Pundits are quick to supply the reason for this. Trump’s enormous baggage, of course, is a potentially fatal liability. His problems and unfitness have been blatantly on display ad nauseum for the last seven years. But Biden, we are told, is “unpopular,” with an approval rating, according to ABC News and 538, just south of 40%. And so the only possible conclusion is that 2024 is destined to be the election nobody wanted! Imagine that!

But is it really that the voters don’t “want” a Biden-Trump rematch?