experts say are rarely prosecuted. that gun charge, in particular, prohibiting a drug addict from o owning a weapon, is rarely used as a statute that is facing legal challenges, has been used and highly where the underlying conduct does not violate any obvious criminal statute. notably, weiss did not bring any charges related to hunter biden s dealings with foreign entities, following years years of accusations from republicans about his ties to china and ukraine. and again, presumably, they looked at that stuff in the five years they were going through it all. right? but, of course, republicans began moving the goalposts almost immediately after this news broke. donald trump, joe biden s most likely opponent next year, wrote, the corrupt biden doj just put up hundreds of years of criminal liability by giving hunter biden a mere traffic ticket. our system is broken. congressman james comer of kentucky pledge to continue the oversight committee s investigation to the president
this? if you went to political professionals like, that seems like a not great number to launch a candidate into a general election. am i wrong? no. it s a terrible number. most voters out there do not like donald trump. they do not want him to be the president. and it is a bad starting outstanding. the difference is, at this point, you ve got primary voters who live in a very different world. and they are a small, a small share of voters overall. but because of the way the primaries work they are incredibly powerful in being able to sort of surge ahead. and i think what some of these other republican primary candidates are seeing is that they have to tread very lightly when it comes to all things donald trump. and that is going to also aid him. republican primary voters do not want to hear republican primary candidates bashing donald trump. and so, he is incredibly toxic with general election voters. but they have all got to get through the republican primary. and they see no way
obsession, the number one grievance the, 2020 election the company lost, and baier, to his credit, again, did not let him off the hook for that either. first of all, i won in 2020 by a lot. okay? let s get that straight. i won in 2020. you know that s not everything that you want to look at, you take a look at truth to vote, where they have people stuffing the ballot boxes on tape mr. president wait a minute, let s go to recent. fbi twitter let s go to recent. the all corrupt stuff understand in all fair that s cheating you lost the 2020 election. bret baier, you take a look at all the stuff ballots, you take a look at all the things, including things like the 51 intelligence agents they were recounts and all the swing states. there was not significant but what do you do there? it s just wild to watch. his obsession with these grievances so intense, and so
son, saying, we will not rest until the full extent of presidents involvement in the family schemes are revealed. now, the right-wing attacks on the bidens, particularly on hunter biden, have generally been in bad faith. i will say, there has been some legitimate criticism, particularly hunter biden s work for a ukrainian energy company called burisma. an appointment that certainly had the appearance and to my mind, likely, substance of a foreign entity clearly attempting to just purchase access to the then vice president of the united states, or to curry favor. and hunter biden obviously should not have accepted that role. but he has made a lot of bad judgment calls over the years. it is not just that one. and i think both hunter biden and his father would agree, largely related to his lifelong struggles with drug and alcohol abuse. and all of the attacks on hunter biden are, of course, just a way to hurt his father, obviously. as peter baker puts it in the new york times, after m
negative advertising and bashing, it s no secret. it keeps happening because it works. at some point you do have to make a concerted and well organized effort to cut back, cut into this guy s support, and we cannot support. now, it s a double edged sword. because i think chris christie is going to die on the cross for this. but the case that he is making against the president, i actually think is a pretty good case. and i think it was echoed it was an echo chamber around him. i think it is not going to have an effect in a short period of time. but does it have an effect, you know, next month? a month after that? at some point, you make the case that he is not, in fact, the best candidate to take on the sitting president. and the general dynamic here, which i want to go back to molly, they are, i think you identified this, to me, i think, is the whole underlying structural truth. he s got a high floor and a low ceiling. if he is the nominee, he is going to start with 42 or 43% of