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Halfway to the most important day of the year We're at the midway point of 2020, in terms of the coming presidential election. 22 weeks ago was New Year's. 22 weeks from now is Election Day. 22 weeks is a lifetime in politics, as CNN political director David Chalian will tell you. (He's the one who noted the 22 week detail on Tuesday). And right now, when thinking back to last week feels like a long time ago, thinking back to 2019 feels like the Bronze Age. The reality on New Year's Eve was: President Donald Trump had been impeached by the House of Representatives on charges of abusing power and obstructing Congress, but not yet tried and acquitted by the Senate; The Democratic field was still crowded with candidates, though Joe Biden was on top of most primary polls; There were no confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the US; 106,000 more Americans were alive; 40 million more Americans had jobs; George Floyd was alive; There was no rioting in American streets; There was no talk of deploying the military to US cities. CNN's Saba Hamedy has a mind-blowing curation of all the things that have happened since January. It's nuts. We don't know exactly what else will happen in the next four-plus months. (The forecasters say hurricane season will be bad.) But we will most certainly be talking about Biden vs. Trump. Or, maybe more accurately, Trump vs. himself.