Posted on 10/23/2020 11:50:41 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Before the debate, President Donald Trump said his advisers urged him to interrupt less and let Joe Biden talk more, the better to let the Democratic nominee slip up.
Toward the end of the debate, Trump may have gotten what he wanted - a Biden comment about closing down the oil industry that probably won't play well in states up for grabs this November such as Texas and Pennsylvania. But there's also evidence that Trump is the candidate on the defensive when it comes to public opinion and climate change.
The statement might still be used as an attack by Trump, who could distort it to claim Biden is open to finding ways to shutter one of the most powerful industries in America.
The problem for Biden is that he is running against someone ready and willing to pounce on any perceived mistake - see Hillary Clinton's emails - and amplify them as loudly as possible, even if or when it gets away from the facts.
Still, Biden saying he would close down the oil industry in a national presidential debate may not be the gold nugget Trump is looking for. As The Post's climate team reports, fossil fuels that Biden wants to stop giving federal subsidies to are a major contributor of climate change. Americans' anxieties about climate change are high. Wildfires, hurricanes, floods, derechos in Iowa are all giving more attention to scientists' warnings that in about a decade, without action, the planet will be irreversibly, catastrophically damaged.
But public opinion is also on Biden's side on the larger question of dealing aggressively with climate change. And then there's the fact that no issue - not even the economy - has been able to rise above the coronavirus pandemic and Trump's handling of it.
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Wishful thinking from the Washington Shithole.
But public opinion is also on Biden's side on the larger question of dealing aggressively with climate change
Climate change polls in the low single-figures as a primary concern.
And then there's the fact that no issue - not even the economy - has been able to rise above the coronavirus pandemic and Trump's handling of it.
Wrong - the economy polls ahead of coronavirus. And law and order is just behind coronavirus - so Trump has that issue bracketed even as the media tries to paint it as his fault.
How politically damaging were Biden’s comments about closing down the oil industry?
ENORMOUS!!
Oil is the life blood of a modern economy.
It should have been the end of him, but he has the Ministry of Propaganda doing his campaigning for him.
And then there’s the fact that no issue - not even the economy - has been able to rise above the coronavirus pandemic and Trump’s handling of it.
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I can think of a few things. Having a job, so I can buy food and pay for housing. Having gas for a car to get to that job.
How is it a "distortion" to quote what he said?
This spin-control article is proof it was a major Biden flub.
Damaging enough for the WP to write an article about it.
Texas....up for grabs. ROTFLMAO!!!!
What kind of short bus rider do you have to be to believe this crap?
Sure, with the 4% or so who think it's an "existential issue".
In every poll climate change is at the bottom of concerns of voters.
Well it was a big hit with AOC and the GND crowd...lots more dead people will be voting joe and the hoe now...
For some reason, this sinister looking guy reminds me of 1984.
There would be no Amazon or ComPost without oil
Texas never has been up for grabs.
Could the author be referring to SeeBC "news" running their mouth about Trump's claim that windmills kill "all" birds, saying, "No, cats and windows do! So there!!"?
Trump doesn't need to "distort" Biden's statement at all ... he just needs to play it and quote it continuously.
That comment was as politically damaging as the others;
Do you want to comment on not Trump’s comment about not shutting down travel from China? “NO”
Biden; “I will give a pathway to citizenship for all 11 million illegals in the United States”.
Biden, “It’s going to be a dark winter”.
All of these comments should have ended his presidential run, right this second. The Democrats should have lawyers demanding a do-over for their nomination.
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