Posted on 04/18/2020 9:36:46 AM PDT by conservative98
US President Donald Trump’s campaign boasts it needed just 24 hours to switch into virtual mode after coronavirus lockdowns ended his signature, high-energy rallies. For Joe Biden, who thrives on the personal connection of retail politics, the transition is taking much longer.
Trump’s digital operation dominates the digital space in no small part thanks to the presidential bully pulpit and his massive Twitter presence. But Biden, a month after the pandemic forced him off the trail, has yet to beef up his digital team and is still working to expand his outreach to quarantined voters.
Unlike rivals like Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders who relied on innovative technology to reach supporters during the Democratic primary season, Biden ran a traditional campaign leveraging his name recognition, political contacts and skills in retail politics. As of last week, Biden has hired no new staff with expertise in digital politics, the campaign said, instead relying on existing aides.
Biden’s digital director, Rob Flaherty, acknowledged that the campaign has to catch up.
"This month has given us a good opportunity to figure out where there are needs and where we need to fill in holes,” Flaherty said in an interview. "We’re going to grow in time but for now we’re drinking from the fire hose but still punching way above weights.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thestar.com.my ...
Biden and “personal connection” should not be in the same sentence
I used to work at a nursing home to help support myself through college. That look of resignation and being out of it on Slow Joe’s face is one I saw on many a seasoned citizen in the home I worked at.
He looks like Bob Barker!! Didn’t Barker have a SEXUAL HARRASSMENT problem also?
Biden should not want to get into a meme war.
To paraphrase Kris Kristofferson’s famous lyrics:
“Biden’s just another word for nothing left to lose”
I have unused computer punch cards from Ebay that might help.
That Univac gizmo might too modern for FDR era Joe.
You are right. His digital game is stuck back in 1970. Maybe that's why he provided a meme maker on his own campaign website.
There are plenty of examples of what happened all over twitter. I like this one.
This one is pretty good too.
You can still make your own at avatar.joebiden.com
Biden is proof that the Dems can run absolutely anyone and it really makes no difference. They can drag anyone through their primary. Too bad
Is the Biden campaign mailing out 33 1/3 RPM vinyl records of all of his word-salad-non-sequitur speeches? I’d pay for that.... it’s comedy GOLD!
“”We’re going to grow in time but for now we’re drinking from the fire hose but still punching way above weights.””
in other words: “We’re substituting a plethora of tired old cliches for actual campaign organization vision, knowledge, expertise, ability and execution.”
btw, this whole article indicates to me that there doesn’t appear to be an actual, effective Joe Biden campaign organization yet, and that the whole thing has the appearance of still being run out of Joe’s basement (when Joe is crushed in November, the apologists will claim that Joe never could get a good campaign organization going because of “social distancing”) ...
contrast that to the campaign juggernaut (both digital and real-life) that Brad Parscale has been building and operating for President Trump for nearly five years now ...
i believe we’re seeing here yet another planet lining up that shows the Dems are going down to a massive defeat of historic dimensions in November ...
“Is the Biden campaign mailing out 33 1/3 RPM vinyl records of all of his word-salad-non-sequitur speeches?”
ah, come on man, give ‘em a tiny bit of credit: they quit doing that a few days ago and are now mailing out CDs, an idea they got from some company called AOL ...
I like Parscale, he needs to define Sleepy Joe Biden as unelectable all this summer...
I understand that the delay is that Joe Biden won’t sign off on it until they figure out how to digitally sniff ladies’ hair and allow for digital groping.
33 1/3? No. They have advance to 8 Track and Fax. The Fax are very busy on team Biden. /s
The Democrats need to ask Tara Reade about Joe Biden’s “digital game”.
This from his campaign digital chief. Boy is Biden in trouble.
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