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I didn’t expect 2020 polling data to make an appearance at the impeachment trial, but there it was, at about 2:30 p.m. yesterday:

During her remarks, Representative Sylvia Garcia, a Democrat from Houston, put up a slide showing the results of polls asking people how they would vote in a hypothetical matchup between Joe Biden and President Trump. Biden led in every one, often by a significant amount.

The message seemed clear. Trump perverted American foreign policy to smear Biden because Trump thinks Biden is the strongest potential Democratic nominee.

And yet earlier this week, a different message came from a new poll, by SurveyUSA. As Newsweek’s Shane Croucher wrote: “Senator Bernie Sanders leads President Donald Trump by the widest margin of all the candidates in the Democratic Party’s 2020 race when Americans are asked to choose.”