President Trump opened his rally in Des Moines tonight with a rant about Hunter Biden and the NY Post story. 20 days before Election Day, in the middle of a pandemic and an economic crisis, this is his message to voters.
Besides being an issue that probably won’t motivate any voters who aren’t already a part of his base, another issue with this message is that President Trump cannot pronounce “Burisma.”
Trump‘s Hunter Biden Hail Mary is an attempt to replicate their argument against Hillary Clinton (that she embodied “the swamp” he would drain). But they didn’t make that case on their own. Republicans spent over two decades calling the Clintons corrupt before Trump ran.
The idea was already planted in the public’s imagination even if a majority of voters didn’t buy it (she did win the popular vote!) Biden doesn’t have the same reputation as the Clintons in part because there was no “vast right wing conspiracy” trying to define him prior to 2020.
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