{"id":113664,"date":"2023-05-24T03:02:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T03:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=113664"},"modified":"2023-05-24T03:02:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T03:02:33","slug":"ky-gop-rep-comer-admits-biden-investigation-aims-at-driving-down-presidents-poll-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=113664","title":{"rendered":"KY GOP Rep. Comer Admits Biden Investigation Aims at Driving Down President&#8217;s Poll Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/james-comer-biden-probe-trump-2024_n_646b9106e4b0005c605afc8b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HuffPo<\/a>: &#8220;Comer, who is leading the GOP\u2019s probe as chair of the House oversight and accountability committee, appeared to say the quiet part out loud during a \u201cFox &amp; Friends First\u201d interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have talked to you about this on the show, about how the media can just not ignore this any longer.\u00a0In an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2023\/05\/18\/foreign-payments-to-biden-family-members\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">op-ed in The Washington Post<\/a>, it says, \u2018Millions Flowed to Biden Family Members. Don\u2019t Pretend It Doesn\u2019t Matter,\u2019\u201d said the show\u2019s host,\u00a0Ashley Strohmier, referring to a piece last week by conservative columnist Jim Geraghty. \u201cSo do you think that because of your investigation, that is what\u2019s moved this needle with the media?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely. There\u2019s no question,\u201d Comer replied. \u201cYou look at the polling, and right now Donald Trump is 7 points ahead of Joe Biden and trending upward, Joe Biden\u2019s trending downward. And I believe that the media is looking around, scratching their head, and they\u2019re realizing that the American people are keeping up with our investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Comer\u2019s apparent moment of candor is reminiscent of Speaker Kevin McCarthy\u2019s memorable gaffe in 2015, when he admitted the GOP\u2019s Benghazi committee was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/kevin-mccarthy-admits-benghazi-comment-was-a-gaffe_n_56152b14e4b0cf9984d7c207\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">created to hurt Hillary Clinton in the polls<\/a>&nbsp;ahead of the 2016 election, as opposed to being any kind of substantive investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEverybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee \u2015 what are her numbers today?\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/4519442873001\/rep-kevin-mccarthy-how-he-would-differ-from-john-boehner\/#sp=show-clips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">McCarthy told Fox News<\/a>\u00a0at the time. \u201cHer numbers are dropping, why? Because she\u2019s untrustable. But no one would have known any of that had happened.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HuffPo: &#8220;Comer, who is leading the GOP\u2019s probe as chair of the House oversight and accountability committee, appeared to say the quiet part out loud during a \u201cFox &amp; Friends First\u201d interview. &#8220;We have talked to you about this on the show, about how the media can just not ignore this any longer.\u00a0In an\u00a0op-ed in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113665,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113664\/revisions\/113665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}