Does the Biden document controversy help or hurt the Republicans?

[kentuck]

Naturally, it doesn't help Biden, on its face.

But, Republicans that look to make hay from the discovery of documents at Biden's house have a difficult tale to sell.

Republicans seem to believe that their base and their supporters know none of the details about the Trump documents case, or why the search warrant was given to the DOJ for Mar-a-Lago, or the types of documents that Trump had taken?

They seem to believe that they can make their supporters believe that the Biden case is much worse than the Trump case? Granted, they may have watched nothing but FOX and right -wing news but the Mar-a-Lago details are pretty much in the public domain.

For that reason, in my opinion, the more the Republicans attack Biden on the documents, the more it exposes their own hypocrisy.

[LiberalArkie]

1. Who in their right mind would carry originals home and not copies?

It just does not make any sense. The only real reason to carry an original is to remove the original from further use. To prevent anyone use from seeing the document.

Someone in the government needs to get their shit together and keep better track of this info.

[Walleye]

2. I think the documents were delivered to his home when he was working from there. Daily briefs

Oh my God they are so hysterical about maybe Hunter saw one of these things. Never mind Jared Kushner

[LiberalArkie]

4. Then the person delivering the documents should have waited until they were read so they

could be returned to the proper location.

[Walleye]

5. Yes that's true we should find out who that is and what happened

But it’s not like he was packing up documents and taking them home on the Amtrak with him. Really sounds like an honest mistake to me. Unless they were planted

[jaxexpat]

3. It does little to help the Republicans but,

it does harm the credibility of Democrats. We're the party who supports responsible government and routine accountability. We do not gain when we're forced to admit a mistake for which we condemn Republicans and are not forthcoming with an explanation. Biden should inform the people about, in so far as it prudent, the exact nature of the documents and how they slipped through the cracks and what has been done to improve security measures. Doing so would provide an opportunity to contrast Trump's mishandling and intentional abuse of power. An opportunity which should not be lost.

This is a win/win opportunity. I don't think the voting public expects of perfection in its government but is effectively impressed and swayed by candor from the powerful. That has been Biden's charm thus far.

[NoMoreRepugs]

6. As soon as JoeB leads an insurrection to overthrow the American government wake me up.

Until then I’m not interested.