Frankly I am not happy with the development.
The Dims are not going to make the general election race about Biden’s policy. And they know it will be very easy to make Biden personally an easy and legitimate target for the GOP. To avois that they will remove the card board cut out of Biden, replace it with a younger moer intelligent face and run their election campaign totally as a campaign against Trump, period with the narrative it is to “save our democracy”. In that, having jetisone the most negative figure they have, Biden, they will campaign on the most negative image (in their minds) that they have created (in their view) - Trump.
Trump and the whole GOP needs to jettison the trope that they are simply anti-Biden and start focusing 24/7/365 on policies. They need to tag the whole Democratic party as co-owners of all the bad policies they got the puppet Biden to adopt.
That is a virtuous and intelligent thought.
I am sorry to say that I do not agree with it.
Emotional appeals work on voters. Intellectual appeals do not.
Most voters do not care about policy statements. They care about who is making the statement. True of "our side" just as much as "their side".
I like to imagine myself as an open-minded, rational thinker, making considered judgements after careful and thorough observations about every topic.
Hoo, boy! Does that image fall apart under real-world conditions or what? So, I am ready to cut other voters a break on their "flawed and wrong opinions". The corollary is that it is not effective to present "facts" to people in order to get them to do something I might want them to do.
And it certainly not effective to argue with people.
Focusing on policies can only work if the presentation contains an emotional hook with the offer. A wonderful benefit delivered by the proposal, and a nasty criticism of Joe Biden and the gang of Democrats who are preventing us from delivering that wonderful benefit.
It is an ugly way to campaign, and it works almost every time. It is one of the things the Democrats do very well, and we must learn from their successes.
"It's for the children"(tm).
The working Joe grandfather moderate family man isn’t going to fly this time. Porn star Hunter would get more votes.