Stop fantasizing and deal with reality: it’s going to be Biden against Trump | Margaret Sullivan

Weird things do happen in US politics, but unless something very weird happens, we are looking at this reality: a rematch of 2020

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It can be diverting - even fun - to fantasize about who might become the next president of the United States.

Wouldn't it be cool if, say, the dynamic, 52-year-old Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer were to be elected, with perhaps a forward-thinking congressman such as Jamie Raskin of Maryland or Hakeem Jeffries of New York as her vice-president?

Wouldn't it be quite an improvement over our previous disastrous president if, for example, former congresswoman Liz Cheney - or someone else who hews to facts and conscience - were the Republican nominee?

Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture