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Jackie Calmes: Hunter Biden's problems are legitimately his dad's problems too

President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, left, attend the annual Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House on April 10, 2023, in Washington, D.C..

There is much that seems unfair in President Joe Biden's chronically anemic poll ratings. Like his low marks for economic stewardship despite presiding over a robust recovery from the pandemic. The fact that significantly more Americans fret about his mental acuity than that of the unhinged Donald Trump. That by an even wider margin, voters worry more about the octogenarian president's age than about Trump's, although the former president is just three years younger and plainly less fit (215 pounds he is not).

But here's what is not unfair: that Biden is paying

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