Analysis: In the final days before the Iowa caucuses, Democratic hopefuls trying to take advantage of the former vice president's troubles are carefully walking a tightrope. - jonallendc
Both House managers and Trump's lawyers have spoken at length about Biden and his son Hunter Biden, who was hired to sit on the board of Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma despite having no relevant experience. Trump and his allies have promoted an unfounded theory that Joe Biden's effort, along with that of several European countries, to force the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor several years ago was aimed at helping Burisma.
"Iowa caucuses are this next Monday evening,” Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, said this week. “And I’m really interested to see how this discussion today informs and influences the Iowa caucus voters, those Democratic caucusgoers. Will they be supporting Vice President Biden at this point?" "They’re smearing me to try to stop me because they know I’ll beat Donald Trump like a drum," he said Wednesday at a campaign stop in Sioux City, Iowa. The argument echoes what his camp has said about the extraordinary effort Trump undertook to have him investigated by a foreign power.
Polling bears him out, at least on the first part: Biden was at 20.3 percent in the Real Clear Politics average of Iowa polls on the day Trump released a White House summary of his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelinskiy in September and at 21 percent on Wednesday. On the national level, Biden was in first place at 29 percent on Sept. 25 and still in the lead at 28.1 percent on Wednesday.
Yang declined to say whether he thought Biden has been effective in combating Republican barbs over Ukraine. Instead, he focused on Trump.
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