Atlanta (AP) – It was six months since Joe Biden left the Oval Office. Republicans, including President Donald Trump, cannot stop talking about him.
The house has initiated an investigation in which it was claimed that Biden’s closest advisor covered up a physical and intellectual decline during the presidency of the 82-year-old Democrat. The Senate has started a number of hearings that focused on its mental fitness. And Trump’s white house has opened his own investigation into the employ of the president’s autopen by the Biden government, which Trump described as “one of the greatest scandals in the history of our country”.
It all fits Trump’s practice to blame its predecessors for the nation’s diseases. Only last week he tried to distract the criticism of the treatment of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trade by his government by gaining the guilt of others, including bidges.
The limelight on the former president returns risks for both parties that go into the 2026 midterms. The more Republicans or Democrats talk about bidges, the less they can present arguments on the effects of Trump’s presidency – positive or negative – above all his comprehensive up-to-date tax reduction and expenses for the redesign of the federal government.
“Most Americans look at Joe Biden than yesterday,” said the Republican Ulicans Whit Ayres.
The Republicans want bidens autopen to become a flashpoint
Trump tried to avenge his defeat against bidges around 2020, and mocked the age and fitness of his rival in 2024, even after Biden had set his re -election offer and gave the president Kamala Harris at the time.
He and other Republicans seemed ready to spend the summer to throw their up-to-date tax, expenditure and guideline package. But Trump, now 79 years elderly, has refused to let bidies re -let, and his allies in the party followed.
The Republican MP Derick van Order from Wisconsin called the cars “a massive scandal” through the White House, while the Republican MP Nick Lalota insists that his New York voters are “curious about what happened in the days of President Biden.”
The Press spokesman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, recently confirmed that the administration would carry out an investigation of the employ of the President’s autopen by the bidges. Trump and other Republicans wondered whether bidges are actually leading the country and suggested that the helpers have misused a tool that has long been a routine part of the presidential acts.
“We deserve to get to the bottom,” said Leavitt.
Biden reacted to criticism by giving an explanation that said that he actually made the decisions during his presidency and that another proposal is “ridiculous and wrong”.
Examine congress committees
On the Capitol Hill, the House Oversight Committee convened hearings to employ the autopen- and biden fitness for the office. Van Order cited art II -Vesting authority of the constitution exclusively with the president.
“No chief of staff says. There is no car pen says,” he said.
The House Panel has charged Bidens doctor and a top aid from the former First Lady Jill Biden. Both of them were protected by the fifth change, which prevented people from saying against themselves in state proceedings.
“There was no Daes there,” said Democratic MP Wesley Bell from Missouri, a member of the committee who described the efforts as “extraordinary waste of time”.
The chairman of the committee, Rep. James Comer, would like to hear from the former chiefs of the White House Ron Klain and Jeff Zient. Former high -ranking consultants Mike Donilon and Anita Dunn; And other former top helpers Bruce Reed, Steve Ricchetti and Annie Tomasini. By the end of September, the Republicans confirmed several data for the meetings to ensure that they remain in the headlines.
Investigations could displace the GOP efforts to define Trump positively
This GOP time plan takes place when both parties work feverishly to define Trump’s beginning of his second term.
Its so -called “a big beautiful bill” is a mixture of tax cuts, border security measures and cuts in security network programs such as Medicaid, a joint state insurance program for Americans with lower income. Surveys indicate that some individual measures are popular, while others are not the case and that the GOP faces the headwind in order to tend to the public in favor of the overall effort.
A recent survey by the Associated Press-Norc Center for Public Affairs Research showed that about two thirds of the US-growing people consider the invoice to be victory for the opulent, and another found that only about a quarter of adults from US-growing people believed that Trump’s guidelines helped them. In the political survey, he could not earn a majority stake in one of the main problems, including the economy, immigration, state expenditure and health care. In particular, immigration was politically seen as a great strength for Trump.
It is “rather deaf,” said Rep. Wesley Bell, a Democrat in Missouri so that the Republicans could bid under these circumstances.
“The Americans want to deal with the problems that our country now plague … The high living costs, the costs for food, the costs for the apartment, health care,” said Bell, when he broke the GOP for a deliberate “distraction” from most of the household challenged in the USA.
The efforts also come with Trump fighting against his own supporters because of the decision of the Ministry of Justice, not publicly publishing additional records in connection with the case of Epstein.
“The Epstein saga is more important for its basis than what happened to Joe Biden,” said Ayres, the GOP student.
Even Lalota, the New York congress member, recognized a balancing act with the bidges.
“My voters take care most about affordability and public security,” said Lalota. “But this is still an important topic.”
Democrats don’t want to talk about bidges
In the case of republicans who protect a close house majority, every hotly contested problem in the 2026 intermediate elections could be considered decisive.
This also puts the Republicans under pressure to keep Trump’s extended coalition of 2024 when he increased support in black and Hispanic voters, especially men, over the usual Republican levels. But that is much more tough, without Trump himself on the ballot. This could explain the Republican efforts to pursue bidges because he is unpopular with Trump’s core fans.
Meanwhile, the Democrats indicate their success in the meantime of 2018 during Trump’s first presidency when they recaptured the majority of the house on the strength of moderate voters, including dissatisfied republicans. They seem confident that the aggressiveness of the Republicans about bidges does not appeal to this voter.
But even if they praise Biden’s achievements as President, the Democrats admit that they do not want to spend time to talk about a number that left the office with delayed approval evaluations and forced his party to change the ticket tardy.
Democratic MP Don Beyer from Virginia said that Biden was productive and recognizes that he was “not at the top of his game because of his age”. He said the Democrats wanted to look forward to gaining control over the house and winning profits in the Senate.
“And who is our standard wearer in 2028?” Said Beyer. “And how do we minimize the Trump damage with what we have right now?”
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Brown reported from Washington.
