Biden wants to pick a gun control fight before the midterm elections

President Joe Biden is historically unpopular and his party is facing an electoral wipeout in seven months. And so, coming down the homestretch, Biden now wants to pick a fight over gun control, an issue that Democrats have been losing politically for years.

Biden is picking another confirmation fight over the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. His previous nominee, David Chipman, was a gun control nut whose nomination went down in flames. His next pick is Steve Dettelbach, who most recently was the Democratic nominee for attorney general in Ohio’s 2018 election. During the campaign, Dettelbach endorsed an assault weapons ban and universal background checks.