The attacks on former vice president Joe Biden’s hugging haven’t weakened him, it seems. “Former vice president Joe Biden leads the Democratic pack of contenders for the White House despite a week of accusations of improper touching and kissing from seven women, according to a new Hill-HarrisX poll released Monday.” I guess voters have figured out they knew about this for decades.

Each round of appointees is weaker than the preceding one. The “best people” don’t work for Trump: “Government officials ... said at least two more top department figures were expected to leave soon as well: L. Francis Cissna, the head of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, and John Mitnick, the department’s general counsel and a senior member of Ms. Nielsen’s leadership team.” Secret Service Director Randolph D. Alles’s departure was announced Monday.

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Even Republicans have started to worry about Trump’s weak management. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the chairman of the Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee: “In addition to congressional dysfunction, I am concerned with a growing leadership void within the department tasked with addressing some of the most significant problems facing the nation."

Trump’s weak, frankly nonexistent, management skills come with a price. “Donald Trump’s frustration over his inability to fulfill his signature 2016 campaign promise to curb illegal immigration led him to oust his second homeland security chief, as the president eyes his re-election prospects next year.”

Never have we seen such weak nominations for the Fed. “In a survey taken Friday through Sunday, 60% of respondents said the Senate should not confirm former Wall Street Journal editorial writer Moore, and 53% called for the Senate to reject the prospective nomination of businessman and former Republican president candidate Herman Cain.”

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