Why Kavanaugh Is the Focus of Republican Attacks on Biden

You’d think Biden was running against Brett Kavanaugh rather than Trump. Photo: Arnaud Andrieu/SIPA/Shutterstock/Patsy Lynch/Shutterstock Nobody is surprised that Republicans generally and Team Trump in particular are all over Tara Reade’s allegation of sexual assault against Trump’s presumptive November opponent Joe Biden. It couldn’t come at a much better time for the incumbent, who trails Biden in head-to-head polls nationally and in most battleground states, and is not doing very well in recent public assessments of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. It also fits in well with Trump’s long-planned reelection strategy of offsetting his unpopularity with savage negative attacks on his opponent, much as he did in 2016. But there’s an interesting indirect approach to the Reade allegations that Republicans have been taking, as Amber Phillips of the Washington Post observes: Rather than driving a conversation around about the specifics of the allegation — the corroborators, for example — Trump’s defenders appear to be lumping “Democrats,” “the media” and “Biden” together, and their main charge is hypocrisy rather than hyping up Reade’s accusation of sexual assault. The “hypocrisy” in question is not how Democrats, the media, or Biden has addressed the many sexual misconduct accusations against Trump, but the “double standard”… Read full this story

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