The Biden Fever

Playbook: “The 14-hour Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday taught us precious little new about the substance of the impeachment of President Trump. But it put on vivid display the Republicans’ blood lust for Joe Biden and his son Hunter, undermining a central thesis of the former VP’s campaign: that he’s uniquely qualified to bring down Washington’s fevered partisanship.”

“In fact, Thursday showed that Biden himself might be the fever.”

“The modern-day congressional Republican Party has tended to focus its energy on people as emblematic of perceived ills — Hillary Clinton and Eric Holder, for example. And, at the moment, they have their eyes transfixed on Biden. The majority of congressional Republicans say what House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said at our Playbook event Thursday: Trump would beat anyone in the Democratic field. (Data doesn’t always agree with them.) But should Biden make it to the White House — or even if he doesn’t — Republicans say they’ll use any sliver of power they have to investigate, poke and probe Biden and his son.”