Sahil Kapur is a national political reporter for NBC News.
Posted on 05/10/2020 5:45:08 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign released two new ads in recent days that take aim at apparent Democratic nominee Joe Biden for defending China and for lying about his achievements in the 1980s.
Of course, Trump himself has also defended China and lied about his achievements in the 1980s.
The new spots are part of a pattern by the Trump campaign of hitting Biden on issues where the president is also notably vulnerable, from China to his resume, from nepotism to allegations of sexual assault to verbal blunders.
In some cases, the strategy appears aimed at neutralizing weaknesses by muddying the waters. But it risks backfiring by drawing attention to Trump's equal or larger vulnerabilities. As the coronavirus crisis reshapes the political landscape, the president's campaign is throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks to his rival, who leads in recent national and battleground state polls.
The Trump campaign has gone all-in on a portrayal of Biden, 77, as old and mentally deteriorating. Video clips shared online feature Biden mangling his words or losing his train of thought. Trump tweeted in March, "Sleepy Joe doesn’t know where he is, or what he’s doing. Honestly, I don’t think he even knows what office he's running for!"
While age is a real vulnerability for Biden, Trump, who is not much younger at 73, would be better-positioned to capitalize if he didn't have his own history of meandering remarks and verbal blunders, from calling Apple CEO Tim Cook "Tim Apple" to mixing up 9/11 and 7-Eleven to confusing FEMA with the world soccer governing body "FIFA."
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Sahil Kapur is a national political reporter for NBC News.
That guy totally picks his nose in public.
BS...end of story.
and eats it.
Translation: “we know that Biden is highly vulnerable so we have to write this wish piece to try and defend him.”
So I guess the Ukraine narrative against Trump did not work (as it exposed Biden as very crooked and corrupt), they are now trying this.
Comcast is an American enemy more dangerous than Russia or Iran
Kapur’s finale is a doozy:
“Still, Trump may not want the 2020 election to become a referendum on pandemic management. Surveys show voters trust Biden over Trump to handle a crisis. The initial “rally around the flag” boost he enjoyed has dissipated and new polls by Reuters/Ipsos and the Economist/YouGov show that more Americans disapprove than approve of his handling of COVID-19.”
Reuters/IPSOS/Economist/YouGov??? each and every one of them MAJOR shills for the gloBULL warming scam.
I don’t think anyone is going to believe Trump defended China.
Lying about his achievements in the 90s? So I guess they are conceding that Biden did so then.
More delusional thinking from the “fake ‘till you make it” media.
The media seems to be trying to convince us the equivalent of the Washington Generals will beat the Harlem Globetrotters.
Why can't NBC find any Americns to work for them?
“NBC Analysis: Donald Trump’s attacks on Joe Biden risk blowing back on him”
That says it all, with fake news running this story you can bet , that the truth is that Trump’s attacks on Biden will help Trump.
N”BS”C
Tense is important
attacks on Biden “are helping” Trump.
The NBC disinformation is solid evidence
They have hope?
I saw that in Caddyshack. Can’t be the same guy, can it?
“Surveys show voters trust Biden over Trump to handle a crisis.”
Does there exist in the universe anyone who actually believes that, and does there exist anyone in the universe who would actually believe that survey?
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