Let’s just say it: Joe Biden should be expected to win this election. He’s an incumbent president running for re-election with a reasonably healthy economy against an unpopular opponent accused of multiple federal crimes.
The whole premise of the argument is that Trump is polling more popular than Biden (and has been for quite a while now.) Yet, in that opening paragraph, it is stated as fact that Trump is an "unpopular opponent" which suggests he is polling less than Biden.
It feels like Cohn has to take every opportunity to denigrate Trump, even if that is inconsistent with the argument Cohn is making. Trump cannot be an "unpopular" politician who is beating the politician Cohn supports (Biden).
Maybe Cohn's sentence might work if we replaced one word; divisive instead of unpopular. It would be:
Let’s just say it: Joe Biden should be expected to win this election. He’s an incumbent president running for re-election with a reasonably healthy economy against a divisive opponent accused of multiple federal crimes.
But we are still left with the unstated implication. If Biden is polling worse than Trump, isn't he logically even more divisive?
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