“Joe Biden is now viewed more as Hunter’s father than Obama’s vice president,” said Kellyanne Conway, counsellor to the president. In Biden, Trump and his allies saw a political threat — a Democrat with blue-collar bona fides who could cut into the president’s winning coalition of working-class whites. An early round of Trump campaign internal polling — which ultimately leaked out into news reports — showed Biden trouncing Trump in key swing states, further heightening the Trump campaign’s early concern that Biden posed the biggest danger to the president’s re-election chances. Although there is no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of either Biden, Trump viewed the situation as a double standard. “Going at Trump from the outset was a way to ensure this race was in large part about Biden versus Trump,” a senior Biden adviser said.

Source: thestar December 29, 2019 17:03 UTC