As we know, when the Very Stable Genius becomes obsessed with something, there's no convincing him to ease up.
It's badly damaging his re-election prospects in the case of his preoccupation with Hunter Biden. He's so ate up with it, he wants Attorney General William Barr to "act."
But it looks like exactly the wrong course to at least a couple of figures who would very much like to see optimized prospects for the GOP.
Marc Theissen, a Washington Post columnist and American Enterprise Institute fellow, has been dismaying me for a few years now with his inclination to carry water for the VSG, but has seen enough of what's presently going on to speak plainly:
Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen criticized President Donald Trump on Monday for “yelling” at reporters about the alleged corruption of his opponents, arguing that message is the wrong one in the final stretch of the 2020 campaign.
People are “tired of the chaos,” Thiessen said on Fox News Monday.
Thiessen — a reliable Trump defender on Fox News and in the pages of the Washington Post, where he serves as a columnist — first criticized social media platforms for cracking down on recent reports about files allegedly found on a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden, the son of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, before arguing that is still not a winning message for Republicans.
“This election is not going to turn on Hunter Biden,” he said. “This is not the closing argument that Donald Trump wants to be make in his last two weeks. This is not what he should be talking about.”
Voters “don’t care about Hunter Biden,” he said. “They don’t care about this. They care about the economy and they care about not having four more years of chaos.”
Thiessen then brought up an exchange Trump had on Monday in which he called a reporter “a criminal” for not covering the Hunter Biden story.
“You just showed a clip of yelling at that reporter saying ‘He’s a criminal, and you’re a criminal.’ And I watched that clip and I said, ‘Oh my gosh if he does that during the debate on Thursday, that’s going to be a disaster.'”
GOP pollster Frank Luntz paints an even starker picture:
Prominent Republican pollster Frank Luntz blasted President Trump and his campaign on Tuesday for focusing on Hunter Biden in the stretch run to Election Day, calling Trump’s campaign the worst he’s ever seen and saying the president’s advisers should be “brought up on charges of political malpractice.”Speaking at a briefing for the British strategic advising company Global Counsel, Luntz said Trump’s advisers have “their heads up their asses” if they think Hunter Biden will be a winning issue for them.
“I’ve never seen a campaign more mis-calibrated than the Trump campaign. Frankly, his staff ought to be brought up on charges of political malpractice,” Luntz said.
“It is the worst campaign I’ve ever seen and I’ve been watching them since 1980. They’re on the wrong issues. They’re on the wrong message. They’ve got their heads up their assess. … Your damn job is to get your candidate to talk about things that are relevant to the people you need to reach. And if you can’t do your damn job then get out.”
And now there's even more fodder for such assessments, what with the way the VSG acted like a big baby regarding his 60 minutes interview with Leslie Stahl.
Behold the fruits of your enthusiasm, Trumpists.
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