Pleasant surprise for the president s team. democrats expected the candidates to equate former president trump s legal problems with those facing the first son. also amid the federal probe and congressional investigations into hunter biden and the first family, the campaign was asked how they would navigate that dragging on the campaign and they punted. mccarthy wakes up every day praying he has 218 votes to be speaker of the house. so we have really no time to focus on what mccarthy says day-by-day. the president said yesterday he would be watching the debate. we don tif hunter joined in. he is here in lake tahoe, he arrived separately by commercial flight, a bit unusual. until early last month when his legal battles ramped up, he would often fly air force one or marine one with his dad. this was the norm when biden was vice president, records and