Good news for Joe Biden

| 12:01 pm EDT July 27, 2020
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If you ask Donald Trump, he’ll tell you that there’s only one measure of popularity: attention. Of course he doesn’t get that a whole lot of people only watch his incoherent press briefings and read his deranged tweets because they can’t look away from the train wreck – and that kind of attention doesn’t exactly help with legitimate metrics like approval ratings.

That said, there are still plenty of pundits who have insisted that Donald Trump is somehow more popular than Joe Biden because he has more Twitter followers than Joe Biden does. The good news for Biden is that he’s now gaining followers in short order. Just a couple months ago he only had about five million followers. Now he’s spiked all the way to 7.3 million followers, a sign that a rapidly increasing number of people are interested in what he has to say.

Trump will still surely brag that he still has more Twitter followers than Joe Biden does. But if we’re going to use that metric out of context, Trump should be reminded that President Barack Obama has 36 million more followers than Trump does.