"Horse-race coverage is substance-free journalism that simply recounts which candidate is up and which one is down. That means that in addition to a lack of investigative and accountability journalism, there is also a dearth of in-depth stories on policies and issues. "
https://theintercept.com/2024/08/28/trump-campaign-election-media-coverage-journalists/
This is all the election coverage dished up by the mainstream for-profit news.