“One of the ways scandal is going to make a difference in 2024… we’ve got Trump coming in with a set of indictments and criminal charges and trials and if you had an opponent that wasn’t touched by anything like that, this could be a leverage point. People think politicians are corrupt. This is where the Hunter Biden scandal neutralizes this issue. All of a sudden, it went from being an advantage to now it’s neutralized. And Menendez is just a part of that too. Now Republicans can say, it’s not just our guy, there are problems everywhere. Issue neutralized, let’s move on.”