From a story on politico.com by Rich Lowry headlined “Republicans Are Delusional If They Think Biden Will Be Easy to Beat”:

At this juncture, no one else in the country is as likely to be president of the United States come January 2025 as Joe Biden.

Republicans telling themselves otherwise are engaged in self-delusion.

There was a palpable sense during the midterms that Republicans were playing with house money — in other words, that the political environment was so favorable that they could afford to make poor choices and still succeed. That was a mistake last year, and absent something terrible befalling Biden or the country over the next two years, is a mistake when thinking about 2024.