saturday. smerconish is up next. voting with conviction. i m michael smerconish. can anything shake donald trump s hold on the republican nomination? the polls are nothing if not consistent. here s what they show. joe biden and donald trump are the likely favorites to win their party s presidential nomination. as of today, that matchup is close viewed nationally or by battleground states, it s probably trump who is in the lead. polls show americans overwhelmingly think the country is headed in the wrong direction. trump benefits from the perception that he s best for the economy and kept the united states out of war. biden perceived by many as being too old for the job, of course, as bad as the polling has been for biden, tuesday s off year elections for big for the democrats. big in ohio, kentucky, virginia. from the day after coverage in the washington post, there was this. for democrats, tuesday s results were an ant dote. polls don t vote. it quickly became a post tue