hard to see how some professed, convoluted foreign influence accusation involving an Eastern European company matters to anyone here (outside of the MAGA crowd). seriously, people here are worried about the government's corona response, their jobs and losing their healthcare coverage. the only people who even know what burizma is are already voting for trump.
the story itself is so shady and weak, reporters at the NY Post have even said it doesn't meet even their journalistic standards. the rewrite editor who was actually tasked with writing it refused to allow his byline to appear on the published articles, and the person who's byline is on them was hired recently after years as a segment producer for Sean Hannity.
two GOP senate intelligence committee investigations have already found no wrong doing, and US intelligence services warned earlier this year that burizma emails had been hacked by Russia and Rudy G. was being targeted as a mark by Russian intelligence for this very information. plus, you're a guy who runs a small computer repair store in Delaware and instead of calling the person who left their laptop to come and pay for it/pick it up, you instead...call Rudy guliani's lawyer? really?
lastly, hunter and Joe have long been open in discussing hunter's addiction problems. if anything, people tend to empathize with their struggle.