The longer I stay away from America, the more strange Americans appear.

The election isn't for over a year! Everywhere in the world other than the United States, people don't start campaigning until a few weeks before the election.

And there's really no evidence that all that early campaigning has any effect at all.

I will probably agree with everything else you write. Biden exceeded my expectations, only because they were so incredibly low to start with. It's horrifying they suppressed all the non-doddering candidates in favor of this old conservative man, and now what we were all screaming about four years ago is happening.