This past weekend, Donald Trump picked up a big endorsement. A yuuuge endorsement.

On Sunday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott was in Edinburg, Texas, for his annual pre-Thanksgiving tradition of serving tamales to Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and Texas National Guardsmen — those deployed along the southern border as part of Abbott’s Operation Lone Star program, which seeks to ameliorate the ruinous and never-ending wave of illegal immigration that Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats have invited.

And Donald Trump was there with Abbott, serving up tamales to the troops, smiling for selfies, and collecting the official endorsement of the governor of the nation’s biggest and most important red state. “Today, I am proud to endorse Donald J. Trump for President,” Abbott posted. “Now more than ever, America needs a President who will secure the border and prioritize national security. President Trump is the clear choice to get the job done.”

The endorsement comes two weeks after Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds endorsed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and it comes amid a winnowing of the Republican field, with South Carolina Senator Tim Scott having recently dropped out. It also comes amid what seems to be a growing lead for Trump among the Republican electorate and a growing preference for him over Joe Biden among all voters. According to the latest Harvard Harris poll, Trump is preferred by 67% of GOP voters, with DeSantis and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley at 9% and 8% respectively. In addition, the poll has Trump beating Biden 53% to 47% head-to-head.

Then, of course, there’s Biden’s increasingly horrendous polling. A recent NBC News poll has him trailing Trump for the first time in the poll’s history. More significantly, though, is that Biden is 30 points underwater with independents. As one independent voter from New York told Fox News yesterday: “I think it’s a different election from last time. We got to see how Biden operates. We got to see some scandals and corruption within his family, and I think people are finally over with this woke agenda, and we need commonsense policy. I do believe age is just a number — Happy Birthday to President Biden — but listen: There’s a clear difference in the four years between him and Trump. Trump is clearly stronger. He’s got the wit. He’s got the stamina and the energy. And I think, at the end of the day, that’s gonna be Biden’s downfall.”

Barack Obama strategist David Axelrod is equally pessimistic about Biden’s chances. “I think he has a 50-50 shot here, but no better than that, maybe a little worse,” he told New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd. “He thinks he can cheat nature here and it’s really risky. They’ve got a real problem if they’re counting on Trump to win it for them. I remember Hillary doing that, too.”

Axelrod got under Scranton Joe’s skin recently when he looked at some recent polling in the battleground states and gently suggested Biden might perhaps maybe reconsider his reelection bid. Biden apparently dismissed Axelrod with an obscenity that rhymes with “stick.” To which Axelrod told Dowd, “I don’t care about them thinking I’m a [word that rhymes with ‘stick’] — that’s fine. I hope they don’t think the polls are wrong because they’re not.”

Indeed, perhaps the most shocking finding in the aforementioned NBC News poll is that Biden trails Trump 46-42 among voters age 18-34, a cohort that normally votes solidly for Democrats. But never fear, says one steady Biden surrogate, Delaware Senator Chris Coons, who downplays the importance of polling a full year before an election, noting on Fox News Sunday, “Head-to-head polls a year out frankly don’t say much at all.” That attitude, to us, is wishful thinking.

Former George W. Bush strategist Karl Rove wishes both Biden and Trump would step aside in favor of new leadership: “For 32 years,” he says, we’ve been “governed by Boomers.” Interestingly, though, Rove doesn’t think Gavin Newsom becomes the favorite if he jumps in instead of Biden. “He’s from California, and we’ve all seen what happened to California.” Rove thinks another Democrat governor — such as Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer, New Jersey’s Phil Murphy, Illinois’s J.B. Pritzker, or Colorado’s Jared Polis — would be favored over Trump. Big Gretch? Really?

Perhaps noting the declining physical and mental condition of our current president — and the American people’s growing concern about it — Trump celebrated Biden’s 81st birthday by posting a letter from his personal physician, Dr. Bruce Aronwald, who says that his patient’s “overall health is excellent,” and that his “physical exams were well within the normal range and” — here’s the important part — “his cognitive exams were exceptional.” Further, it is Aronwald’s opinion that with Trump’s “continued interest in preventative health monitoring and maintenance, he will continue to enjoy a healthy active lifestyle for years to come.”

Caveats apply, of course. After all, it was just a few months ago when a quack named Kevin O'Connor, who claims to be Joe Biden’s longtime physician, disgracefully declared the current president to be “a healthy, vigorous, 80-year-old male who is fit to successfully execute duties of the presidency.”

And if you believe that, you’re either a Democrat or you haven’t been paying attention these past three years. But we repeat ourselves.