Trump to blame for the Dem riots?
6 Jun: Fox News: Arnon Mishkin: One crisis too many — Will the riots be Trump’s undoing?
OPINION By Arnon Mishkin
Indeed, many assumed that the response would help Trump successfully benefit from the 2020 unrest...
But so far, it hasn’t worked out politically as some expected. Trump’s poll numbers continue to decline – Biden currently leads him by eight points in the RealClearPolitics average – a larger amount than even Obama enjoyed when he first ran in 2008...
The mood has gotten so bleak that many administration insiders – both anonymously and on camera – have distanced themselves from the president’s actions...
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/riots-trump-undoing-arnon-mishkin
2 pieces ostensibly about Biden are really more attacks on Trump:
12 Aug: Fox: Arnon Mishkin: Biden-Harris team signals ‘we’re the risk-free ticket’ — but will it sway voters?
While the Harris choice is safe it carries with it initial signs of an opening for the Republicans
And maybe that’s a key point of the choice: “I’m Joe Biden and when I’m president I won’t surprise you.”
It’s a clear contrast to President Trump, who never misses an opportunity to deliver the unexpected: Threatening war on the “Rocket Man” of North Korea at the United Nations…A summit with the same “Rocket Man” a few months later …a willingness to overrule many of the most senior advisors and exit the deal with Iran…an executive order to avoid a stalemate on Capitol Hill...
And Biden’s strategy is quite simple – I’ll stay here in Delaware, with my forty plus years of experience at the national level…I’ll pick a fairly establishment Democrat as my running mate…we’re the risk-free ticket…and let’s keep this election as a referendum on the incumbent...
There’s a saying in the Vatican, observing the history of conclaves selecting Popes, typically alternating between different approaches to religion and governance: “After a fat pope, a thin pope.” The College of Cardinals has been running that process since 1059AD, and the political wisdom of the millennium seems to be driving the Biden campaign in 2020.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/biden-harris-team-risk-free-ticket-arnon-mishkin
6 Aug: Fox: Arnon Mishkin: Biden could benefit by skipping Democratic Convention — he avoids sticking foot in his mouth
But Trump’s repeated unforced errors could vault Biden into the Oval Office
Now with no need to travel to the Democratic Convention, Biden can continue his shelter-in-place campaign from home. Since Biden is leading Trump by significant margins in opinion polls among voters nationally and in key states, he has little incentive to change his strategy and start traveling around the country campaigning...
After almost four years of President Trump’s unprecedented and controversial actions, Biden is wisely portraying himself as a president who would return some sense of normalcy to the country...
Yet Trump’s attacks on his own public health agencies and officials — including Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx — and the president’s overly optimistic assessments of the pandemic are sowing public doubts about his ability to handle this crisis. It’s gotten so bad that at times it seems the Biden campaign is running the Trump campaign, orchestrating a path to make Trump a one-term president.
Biden may be past his prime and may not have been every Democrat’s first choice for the nomination, but Trump’s repeated unforced errors could vault Biden into the Oval Office.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/biden-convention-campaign-arnon-mishkin
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