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If I lived in the UK, happily vote Green (or left-wing independent, depending on the constituency and candidate).

Would you trade a Trump 2024 win for a Trump 2020 win?

Why do people think weed smells bad?  lol.  I don't mind it at all.  To me, smells....pleasantly earthy?  Smells like goddamn roses compared to tobacco smoke, which permeates your clothing, your skin, your sweat, and your very soul.  You can't get it off you. 
 
I was in Chinatown-Gallery Place (DC) earlier this week, and goddman. Weed is all you smell for blocks until you reach La Colombe coffee

Depends on what you mean by aberration. I voted Trump because he's clearly the more unorthodox president and a break from the kind of people we would normally expect to be President, people like Biden.

But if you mean whose legacy will actually last the test of time, and who was the exception to a broader trend, that will be decided by the 2024 election. Both will have served one full term, and if Biden gets a second term, then Trump will be seen as a weird aberration that took over the GOP and squeaked out a win against Clinton, but lost re-election, lost re-re-election, and didn't do his party many favours downballot. Basically a textbook example of a failed president. But if Trump wins, then he will be seen as a more significant figure, and Biden basically a remnant of a bygone era who didn't accomplish much and was not suited to the challenges of his time.

There's an argument to be made that many of Trump's ideas (protectionism, onshoring, "America First") will be enshrined in Biden's legacy even if he is reelected, considering that Biden has arguably done a better job of putting them into practice. Whereas if Trump is reelected and the US's standing declines further than it would've had Trump not been reelected, Don Giovanni would also be seen as a pivotal figure in that outcome.

Any predictions for the outcome so far? I have a feeling we're getting a hung jury.

Same here.

Conviction on all felony counts as charged confirmed

Where?

Because SnowLabrador made a prediction. Again, keep letting him. He's doing us all a massive service.

Trump has incredible luck. I am pessimistic that he will be convicted on felony charges, myself. He has managed to scrape by things that would've ended the careers of 99% of other politicians for nearly a decade. I too can honestly see a hung jury, or a conviction on misdemeanor offenses. I am skeptical he will be convicted of felonious offences purely because he is just that damn lucky.

He wasn't lucky in 2020.

He kind of was. He should have lost by as much as polls suggested he would.

Somehow I don't think he himself would see it that way.

End of an era.

Start of a legacy.

Depends on what you mean by aberration. I voted Trump because he's clearly the more unorthodox president and a break from the kind of people we would normally expect to be President, people like Biden.

But if you mean whose legacy will actually last the test of time, and who was the exception to a broader trend, that will be decided by the 2024 election. Both will have served one full term, and if Biden gets a second term, then Trump will be seen as a weird aberration that took over the GOP and squeaked out a win against Clinton, but lost re-election, lost re-re-election, and didn't do his party many favours downballot. Basically a textbook example of a failed president. But if Trump wins, then he will be seen as a more significant figure, and Biden basically a remnant of a bygone era who didn't accomplish much and was not suited to the challenges of his time.

Also if Trump wins the consensus would be that Biden was dragged across the finish line by a once-in-a-century pandemic.

Boy, I get this vibe from Rishi Sunak's campaign thus far

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbLDH3Os8HU

Is there any possibility that the PAN wins?
I feel bad for the PRD, it could had become a moderate centre left party for social liberals but they prefered to become an small actor in the MORENO-PRIAN battle.

I don't know for sure on the question, but I can say definitively that anyone who votes for Trump is a bad American. Our democracy is a fundamental part of what it is to be "American" and Trump is actively opposed to it.