Inside the Senate GOP's plan to hit Biden with an October surprise that's 'right out of the 2016 playbook’
Republicans on Capitol Hill are issuing subpoenas demanding documents and preparing reports directed at damaging former Vice President Joe Biden during the general-election campaign.
The GOP-led Senate has lined up a series of springtime votes to press forward for documents from a who's who of Democratic boogeymen. While it's unclear if they will succeed in obtaining any damaging material, their goal is to uncover anything that lends itself to the kinds of drip-drip revelations that can create negative perceptions of Biden before November.
Republicans on Capitol Hill, sensing an opportunity, are nonetheless setting the stage for an active summer and fall designed to undercut Biden while boosting Trump's chances of winning a second term. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, a close Trump ally who is also facing a 2020 reelection challenge in South Carolina, said Thursday at a brief meeting of his committee that he'd been asked to hold off on a vote to authorize the subpoenas until after the holiday and he was honoring the request.
The attorney general added that he didn't expect US Attorney John Durham's ongoing review of the FBI Russia probe to lead to criminal investigations of Biden or Obama, saying the department was focused as part of the review on the potential criminality of others. "It doesn't matter that they get the documents," Petkanas said of the Senate GOP. "It's that they request them, creating the perception that there is some sort of nefarious activity going on. That was what they did in 2016, by saying Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, or talking about the Clinton emails."
"Our Republican majority is using Russian propaganda to try and damage a political opponent. Is that a disgrace?" Schumer said. California Sen. Kamala Harris, a former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate who is considered to be on the short list for the vice-presidential slot on the Biden ticket, urged Johnson to end the "political sideshow."
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