If you want a picture of the future of campaign reporting, imagine a hand typing ‘Democratic Candidate Callously Refuses to Appease Republicans,’ forever.

I’m looking forward to 900 months of pundits and political reporters claiming that the GOP’s ardent embrace of a disgusting, dim-witted crook is a problem for the Democratic candidate.

A reporter for FiveThirtyEight demonstrates the easiest approach. Simply use extremely broad terms like “voters” and “people” instead of accurate terms like “Republican voters” and “Republicans,” as much as possible.

Lede: Trump is scheduled to be arraigned, which is hugely significant for him. Granted. But!

But it’s also consequential for President Biden, Trump’s Democratic rival, who is in a potentially tricky position as prosecutors in his administration’s Department of Justice move forward with the case against Trump.

Hmmm. It isn’t until the third paragraph that the article hints at why the wanton criminality of a Republican a problem for a Democrat: “Some people” (the ones who do not vote for Democrats) believe that Biden is persecuting tRump.

But there’s a reason Trump is holding a political rally immediately after his court appearance: It’s inevitable that some people will see the prosecution as politically motivated. In fact, an Ipsos/ABC News poll conducted from June 9-10, just after the indictment became public, found that 47 percent of Americans believed the indictment was politically motivated, while 37 percent said it wasn’t and 16 percent weren’t sure, with a broad partisan gap between Republicans, who generally see the indictment as politically motivated, and Democrats, who don’t.

Republican voters think Biden stole the election from the Tangerine Scream. They also think something something Hunter’s laptop rarrr. The Republican party skews white and bigoted, which means it is full of people who reflexively make up shit to be mad about. If they weren’t angry at Biden about the indictment, it would be some other thing. As an aside, the article never explains why Mr. Mini Mitts scheduled a rally after his court appearance (which we all know was to suck up applause and demand more money).

That divide could shape the 2024 race going forward, and result in increasingly different standards for political candidates between voters on different sides of the aisle. And it’s also possible that the unfolding legal drama could further erode trust in institutions like the Department of Justice, particularly among Republicans.

Republicans – still not the entire universe of voters or people, still not Democrats, still a bunch of lawless swine.

And the article still hasn’t explained why the Republicans’ desire for a criminal POTUS is a problem for the person who will not be running for the Republican nomination. It’s just that the people who hate him and will always hate him … continue to hate him. Sound familiar?

Paragraph VI:

Perhaps even more noteworthy, the YouGov/CBS News poll found that 80 percent of Republican primary voters think Trump should be able to serve as president, even if he’s convicted in the classified documents case.

The overwhelming majority of Republican voters who think a felon should be president – if he’s a Republican – could be an interesting story, but that would be a 100% Republican story. It wouldn’t have shit to do with Biden. The reporter doesn’t even posit a group of Republican voters who might vote for Biden – or not vote at all – but for the indictment.

Those numbers among Republicans aren’t likely to be too worrying for Biden — after all, he wouldn’t be counting on those voters anyway. And there is a kernel of potential good news for Biden in the Ipsos/ABC News poll: More than one-third (38 percent) of Republicans think the charges against Trump are serious, which could create some room for movement.

Of course that’s not great news for Biden.

But there are also significant risks. Separate from the electoral consequences, the investigation could erode trust in the Department of Justice, particularly among Republicans.

Fun fact: If you write “…erode trust in the Department of Justice, particularly among Republicans,” twice in the same article, it doesn’t become twice as true, or become a problem for Biden.

People who post off-topic comments think Biden should pardon Trump.