Trump has eagerly jumped into the Jan. 6 news cycle. He was slinging the usual conspiracy theories at a rally in Georgia on Saturday. He says he’s never heard of a burner phone. (Not true, says JOHN BOLTON.) He called on Russian President VLADIMIR PUTIN to release dirt on the Bidens. (Yes, that’s a real and true sentence and it is as shocking as you think, but we will spare you the adjectives and outrage. Full details here.) Oh, Trump also said he got a hole-in-one recently.

There is a debate among Democrats about whether there is any strategic value in making Trump the center of the election. The moderate Dems barely clinging to their seats insist they have no interest in talking about him. The make-2022-about-Trump faction insists that the only way to recreate the Dem surges of 2018 and 2020 is to recreate the Trump-saturated political environment of those years when right-leaning suburbanites flocked to the Dems.

But that debate may be moot.

This week’s convergence of 2020 election subversion news and wild Trump comments is a harbinger of things to come. The Jan. 6 committee’s major reports, when released this year, will force every candidate to discuss Trump and 2020. And as the midterms approach, Trump, who has big bets placed on dozens of candidates up and down ballots across America, will be a central player in campaigns everywhere, whether either party likes it or not.