It’s the Criminality, Stupid: Why Voters See Crooks in All Corners of Politics

https://www.wsj.com/articles/presidential-candidates-crime-politics-trump-biden-f94380b4

“Biden’s attack on Trump’s corruption is a direct hit that’s being covered fairly and honestly in the newspapers, and it’s on multiple fronts,” said Joel Benenson, a Democratic pollster who worked on Barack Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaigns. “Whereas the attack on Hunter Biden is a bank shot. And I think direct attacks and direct hits are much more potent and are going to ring much more true.”