But the lies they tell don't make sense. You lie and put Biden too far ahead and you've just made your voters complacent. You lie and put him too far behind and you discourage the voters. It would make the most sense to keep them neck and neck, and to have Biden start out trailing and slowly move him out ahead. Artificial momentum. Instead they start him out way ahead and slowly pull the race closer and closer, then as polls turn into results, he ends up behind and you get momentum in the wrong direction. They're too good at manipulating people to keep making this mistake but this is twice now they've done it this way and twice it's bit them in the ass.