A Punchbowl News survey of Republican K Street lobbyists finds a vast majority – 66 percent – are “concerned” with disgraced former President Trump’s “mental and physical fitness to serve as president,” a number which “drops” to 65 percent among all surveyed. Meanwhile 55 percent of Dem lobbyists and 54 percent of all surveyed say the same about President Biden, which isn’t great but still revealing of a gap in confidence among highly connected partisans in DC.
Punchbowl, a name synonymous with the cloistered douchebaggery of the Beltway media circlejerk, were kind of shocked at their own findings. “The results from our survey of K Street leaders, conducted March 4-22 in partnership with LSG, were a bit surprising. Biden has received more public scrutiny than Trump over the issue of age and fitness for office, and Republicans have continued to use the two issues to rally their base,” they write as if they expected lobbyists to act like typical both-sidesy MSM twatwaffles rather than rational human beings in possession of functional pairs of eyes and ears when anonymously assessing the two presidents.