Posted on 04/03/2020 11:04:40 AM PDT by Red Badger
In the midst of a pandemic that has shuttered businesses and wreaked havoc on supply chains around the world, Democrats are worried about the inability of former Vice President Joe Biden to command attention from people.
On Friday, MSNBC analyst John Heilemann said there was a "super high" level of frustration inside the Biden campaign as the Democratic presidential front-runner struggles to gain the spotlight while President Trump dominates news coverage with near-daily coronavirus task force briefings.
Frustration levels are super high, Heilemann said during an appearance on MSNBC's Morning Joe. The reality is that the former vice president is in a terrible position. In the sense that he doesnt have a platform. He doesnt have real standing in this crisis."
In March, Biden promised "shadow coronavirus briefings" from a studio in his basement that would air as Trump addressed the national media each day, but Biden's efforts have fallen short of expectations, two Obama-era officials told the Hill. Reports have come out about how Biden has struggled for visibility, and a lot of buzz in recent weeks has been focused on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has been lauded for his daily updates on the spiraling situation in his state.
A recent poll from YouGov/Yahoo showed Biden had been the least visible among top American politicians and lawmakers during the pandemic. He ranked well behind Trump, Cuomo, Vice President Mike Pence, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
So you look at, obviously, Donald Trump, who has the ability to dominate, for good or bad, has the ability to dominate coverage," Heilemann said. "Hes in the middle of the entire thing and will have this big platform and megaphone, bigger than ever. You also have governors, officeholders, who are dealing with this on the front line."
Are excess sanity and order 'problems' these days? Cause he can fix those toot sweet!
But with inflation, when a Dem contracts COVID-19, within hours it mutates to COV-25, maybe more.
“The Trump campaign should offer to pay for an hour a night on primetime TV.”
good idea!
On another note:
Trump Campaign has been, quietly, buying huge food orders from local restaurants to provide free meals to emergency workers.
Keep folks working. Fuel the Front Lines.
Thank the Heavens above (and the ~70 million here below that voted for him) for our PDJT!
Roll MAGA, Roll!
Biden will always look like the Old Man yelling a kids to get off his lawn........................
I once heard Al Gore say "I used to be the next President of the United States" (which I have to admit is actually a pretty good quip)
Biden yells at cloud.....................
[[This MSNBC setting up Cuomo to take Biden’s place. ]]
After Cuomo denied HCQ to people dying by the 1000’s in NY- while he ran his little 1000 patient only clinical trial- I doubt the people will accept Him- He directly caused many people to die by denying them the drug HCQ- people l ike hannity, tucker, kilmead etc are now sounding the alarm, letting people know that NY let folks die- necessarily-
Hopefulyl the alarm bells blare loud and often about this- it was immoral, unconscionable, and down right despicable to deny people the right to get the drugs- thankfully some doctors ignored the EO, but still -way too many people couldn’t get the drug-
2,935 so far, who didn’t need to die, have died- Most if not all could have very likely been saved- but the left’s hatred of President Donald Trump was too strong- they would rather people die than let the President authorize nationally the use of a drug that is saving lives all around the world
He’s not. Biden is running simply to protect the Democrat establishment and elites because they don’t want to go down the same path as the Republican establishment. Biden is even worse than what Mondale was.
He can remain silent and not appear "Presidential," or he can say something and appear even less Presidential.
Get out there Joe, and say something. The American people need to be reminded of how horrible it would be if you were elected.
Besides, we love to hear your gaffes. They provide a humor break in time of crisis.
This is NONSENSE.
the absolute BEST thing for Biden at this point is to be completely out of sight and off the airwaves.
Everyday he is not on a loop on TV saying something unintelligible, non sequitur, flat out making up and fabricating his history, or just dementia related increases his standings.
Considering this irrelevance, and the Ukrainian scandal with Hunter, the Obama lack of endorsement and the dementia gaffes at every presser... is Joe glad he decided to run!
That's not Joe; that's Bernie.
Joe is the old man who always wants you to sit on his lap. "Come here, Honey. Let Uncle Joe smell your hair."
That and what you have is a candidate you can't trust to be in front of a camera even if you manage to get him camera time. That's a lot bigger problem.
As for standing, let's not forget that Joe has been in public office for 46 years and was Vice President for 8 before Trump's election and so any "standing" he has in this will be as a function of how well the government was set up to handle this crisis. Given how lamentable that turns out to be I sure wouldn't want to highlight it.
“Biden has ZERO momentum. No fund raising. No relevance to a once in a lifetime crisis.”
He could have relevance. Dems just need to infect him with COVID and hope he dies, then they can hold him up as a martyr.
Wishing now Obama and he had dominated the airwaves with Ebola, SARS and H1N1, I’ll bet.
Didn’t Obama accept a phone call from Dick Cheney, for guidance on H1N1? Trying to remember...
” as Trump dominates airwaves during coronavirus crisis”
Almost like that is what happens when you are president?
Can you imagine if a Republican presidential candidate made a big fuss about Obama hogging all the face time during the Ebola crisis? That candidate would have either been routinely ignored or roasted for inserting politics into a “major health crisis”.
Update: 3,000 New Deaths Today But Enough About Abortion.
By the way: Do they reaaly think Biden would have been able to handle this as well as Trump?
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