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 Republicans lead Democrats by 7 points on the generic ballot in a new ABC News-Washington Post poll. 

The last time a Democratic president faced that kind of deficit in his first term was Barack Obama in 2010. He was polling much higher at the time (52 percent) than Biden is now (41.6 percent in the RealClearPolitics average) and still lost 63 seats.  

Republicans need to flip just five seats to take back the House and win a net-gain of one in the Senate to regain power in both chambers. 

And if you think the Squad wing of the Democratic Party will accept all this fund-the-police talk, think again. Here's Rep. Cori Bush's (D-Mo.) logic on the issue. "Defund the police. Invest in our communities," was her message after the State of the Union. 

Biden's rhetorical move to common sense is a matter of too little, too late. But the decision to echo Trump, the man he defeated in 2020 by claiming to be his opposite, is a plot twist few saw coming.