CNN Analyst Says Biden Is ‘Poster Child’ For Americans Who Are ‘Angry’ About Trump Prosecution

CNN senior political analyst Mark Preston said that President Joe Biden is the “poster child” for Americans who are “angry” about what they believe was a political prosecution of former President Donald Trump.

Around 45% of Americans either “strongly” or “somewhat” agreed with the statement that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of Trump stemmed from the desire to boost Biden, a Monday POLITICO Magazine/Ipsos poll found. Host Boris Sanchez on “CNN News Central” asked Preston about how this belief could hurt Biden, with the analyst explaining that the president is the “face of” the prosecution.

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“It certainly harms Joe Biden, the fact that he is the institution right? So when people are angry at the institution, he may not be behind every reason why people are mad at the federal government, but he is the poster child, right? He is the face of it,” Preston said. “So that in itself is problematic for him, but it really is a problem when you’re talking about but institutions as a whole now.”

“I mean, you have almost have the country right now, believes that this was done for political reasons. You have Donald Trump out there talking about how he’s going to take retribution perhaps against those who have wronged him. I’m not surprised that we’ve seen it. In fact, I‘m not even surprised the number is not even higher by some measure,” he added.

A panel of seven swing-state voters recently said