Posted on 04/12/2020 3:57:27 PM PDT by Conserv
President Donald Trump and his allies are leaning heavily into a new 2020 strategy tying Democrats and their presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden not just to China but to its role in spreading the coronavirus.
The Trump re-election campaign released a new ad this week going after Biden over his opposition to restrictions on travel from China designed to control the spread of the coronavirus outbreak. That was followed with a fundraising solicitation on Saturday that hammered home the point: “I am TOUGH ON CHINA and Sleepy Joe Biden is WEAK ON CHINA,” it declared.
“When people learn about Biden’s attack on the president’s China travel ban, his other weak positions on China, and his conflict with Hunter Biden’s business deal with China, voters are horrified,” John McLaughlin, a Trump pollster, told The Daily Beast on Friday.
In one sense it’s simply an extension of Team Trump’s months-long strategy to tie Biden to a country increasingly viewed with suspicion by American voters. The campaign and the Republican National Committee have been hammering Biden for months over his youngest son Hunter’s past business dealings in China.
But the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan, has made the country a far more potent political villain. Polls already indicate that Americans of both parties overwhelmingly blame China for the virus’ initial spread.
For a Trump campaign that’s a potential political goldmine. “China was an effective wedge issue for Trump in 2016,” said one Republican strategist close to the campaign. “Now that it’s at the top of everyone’s mind, and Biden has a long record of being weak on China, just imagine how much more effective it will be in 2020.”
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Could only post 300 words. Was able to include most of the good stuff.
The other half of the article is anti Trump horsesh!t.
Trump Messiah!
Trump Messiah!
Trump Messiah!
Democrat Party afraid that PDJT is making America great again.
Sorry about the triple post.
There’s only one Messiah. Trump ain’t it.
I like Trump. He’s good.
Impossible! "WHO" named it "COVID-19" specifically so there wouldn't be any racist retribution or ill-will toward any country or geographic location deemed to be the source.
Isn't this a non-country specific virus that just emerged out of the ether? Why in the world are Americans blaming China? What does China have to do with it?
No problem. It happens.
We must fight as if we were 20 points behind. Everyone must do their part in getting out the vote.
We need the House, Senate and Presidency to get anything done in a timely fashion....and without the Dem games.
Trump aggressively calling out WHO is very telling. Trump’s on the offensive and will define the dem/Chicom/media/WHO connection. I’m interested to know when Trump will begin denouncing Fauci’s faulty projections and advise? Trump might have been naive enough to not see Fauci for what he is three years ago, but not now. Trump has been burned by a hundred Faucis.
I believe that all starts tomorrow and Tuesday. I think he will introduce his new economic recovery team on Tuesday, after thanking the CV team for their service on Monday.
We must fight to throw every Horse Shit eating Democrat out of DC for the survival of the Nation. The way the Democrats voted as a block shows two things. First they are not representing their Constituents, and secondly they are COMPLICIT in the Massive Democrat Mafia corruption.
Not a ONE of them exposed the criminal enterprise that was Raping the Treasury. Not one, they are all corrupt to the core.
Trump did.
But he only gets 4 more years. So the goal is not Trump, he’s got that. The goal is flushing Congress. The bowl is full.
Being a good President is considered a ‘secret weapon’ by the left.
We need to stop voter fraud. Do that and it won’t be close and they know that.
Yahoo calls it strategy. How about leadership?
-PJ
The truth should always be a winning strategy...
Very well said and right on!
Everyone on our side must realize the severity of the situation.
The Dems are a grave threat to our security, prosperity and freedom, among other things. There is no option but to defeat them in all ways possible.
If they can eve position themselves to do so, they will rival Stalin and Hitler and that is not an exaggeration.
Nope, being a good President is an impeachable offense.
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