The Biden campaign has launched a $50 million advertising blitz trumpeting Donald Trump's recent felony conviction. The president wants to make his Republican opponent's legal woes a bigger issue heading into November.
Trump has denied any wrongdoing and maintains that Justice Department officials orchestrated the New York case against him for purely political reasons.
Robert Knight, a conservative activist and columnist, agrees.
"I understand they even have Biden staffers high-fiving President Trump's conviction," Knight notes. "What more could be the proof we need that this was entirely political and that the Biden people would exploit it?"
"This election is between a convicted criminal who's only out for himself and a president who's fighting for your family," the ad's narrator intones over images of a Trump mug shot.
Though polls have shown that the conviction may convince some voters not to support him, the columnist is not too concerned about that.
"A lot of people don't pay close attention to what's going on, and they think if there's enough smoke there, there must be a fire," he says. "I think the low-information voters who might vote for President Trump and also might be dissuaded to do so because of the headlines that he's been convicted are not as many people as you'd think."
"Actually, it'll blow up in the Democrats' faces if they make too much of this conviction," Knight predicts.
Election Day is more than five months away, but Biden's campaign says it wants to more clearly define the choice between the candidates ahead of their first debate in Atlanta on June 27.
