The arrest of the Biden "informant" at the heart of the GOP's impeachment effort is essentially a death blow to the whole endeavor, former Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-FL) told MSNBC guest host and former RNC chair Michael Steele on Thursday.
The informant, Alexander Smirnov, had told FBI agents that President Joe Biden and his son Hunter accepted millions in bribes from Ukrainian firm Burisma at the time Biden was vice president. But the FBI now admits to this being a fabrication planted by Russian officials.
"You have Jim Jordan, and James Comer acting like this is no big deal, it is no big deal that he's being arrested and charged with false statements. None of it is a big deal," said Steele. "What does it mean for rank-and-file members facing re-election campaigns this fall?"
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"When you think about why Joe Biden won the 2020 election, one of the big reasons is that swing voters in swing states all over the country decided that they had had enough of Donald Trump's scandals and controversies, and all of the chaos," said Curbelo. "So they chose Joe Biden, because they wanted more normalcy, they wanted more stability in government."
"Now, what congressional Republicans are trying to do is, they are trying to tell the swing voters, this isn't really a difference between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, they both have scandals, they both have controversies, and while Democrats do have the more challenges this time around, because it is the president's son, certainly there is a big difference between anything President Biden has allegedly done, and of course, everything Donald Trump has done, most prominent of his sins January 6th," he continued.
"So this really puts a dent, a big dent in not just the case that Republicans try to build, but the political strategy ahead of the '24 election," Curbelo added. "And you mentioned some of these rank-and-file members, some of these swing district members, I think that you are going to see some of these swing district members in Biden districts, districts President Biden won that are held by Republicans, they are going to start distancing themselves from this investigation because the more that we find out, the weaker it appears that the case is."
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