Biden’s prospects bright­en with Trump gagged in court and wins with ‘rook­ie’ speak­er

Pres­i­dent Joe Biden has scored a num­ber of vic­to­ries of late, all while his oppo­si­tion in the 2024 gen­er­al elec­tion, for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, is large­ly side­lined in his New York crim­i­nal hush mon­ey tri­al.
In recent weeks, Biden has made sig­nif­i­cant leg­isla­tive head­way, includ­ing the aver­sion of a gov­ern­ment shut­down in March, the secur­ing of a near­ly $100 bil­lion for­eign aid pack­age over the week­end, and the crum­bling of a Repub­li­can-led impeach­ment of Depart­ment of Home­land Secu­ri­ty Sec­re­tary Ale­jan­dro May­orkas just last week. The pres­i­dent is also begin­ning to see some pos­i­tive indi­ca­tors in 2024 polling focus­ing on swing states and non­tra­di­tion­al slices of the elec­torate.
Mean­while, Trump, under gag order, has been forced to sit through neg­a­tive media cov­er­age of his crim­in …