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Scoop: Trump fears Biden 2020, losing Pennsylvania (According to Axios)
Axios ^ | 07/25/2018 | Mike Allen

Posted on 07/25/2018 6:35:39 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

Advisers (unnamed sources?) to President Trump say Joe Biden is the Democrat he most fears running against, and that Pennsylvania is the state he worries most about flipping against him.

Trump’s calculation is based partly on how weak he sees other Democratic possibilities, including Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren, and partly on who’s capable of appealing to his base of working class whites.

Biden, sources tell me, doesn't think Trump is morally or politically fit for the Oval Office.

The former vice president, who at 75 is three years older than Trump, pines to run and will test the waters this fall.

But family considerations could prevent him from ultimately pulling the trigger. Biden sees the same opening Trump does with working class voters, especially in Democratic states like Pennsylvania that Trump won.

Trump advisers say says Biden, like the president, conveys authenticity, is comfortable in his own skin, can work a crowd, and relishes throwing and returning punches.

Biden could — and would — needle Trump, and get under his skin, with a brio that few other big-name Democrats could muster.

He has kept his connection to his birthplace — Scranton, Pa., emblematic of the working-class, Rust Belt territory that joined Trump Country in 2016.

A Democratic source close to Biden said he'd be strong with "Obama-Trump voters" in states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin where "the blue wall became the red threat" — Obama won them twice, then they flipped narrowly to Trump.

These are white, working-class voters who aren't college graduates (or have some college) and are anti-Washington. They voted for the anti-establishment candidate (Obama) in 2008 and again in 2016. Biden allies say he'd be a strong candidate partly because he has nothing to lose — his last run would give him a sense of liberation.

This fall, Biden will build up chits with Democrats by traveling every week to appear with candidates for House, Senate, governor and state legislature, and will make a slew of endorsements. In between, he'll work on the Biden Cancer Initiative, the Biden Institute and the Biden Foundation.

Republican sources tell me Pennsylvania, where Trump campaigned frequently and fervently in 2016, will be the toughest to hold of all the battleground states that put him in office.

"There's a reason Pennsylvania had eluded Republican presidential candidates as long as it did," said GOP operative Josh Holmes, president of the Cavalry LLC issue management firm. "You need a combination of a really effective campaign, a perfect message and a good environment."

To make up for how badly Republican candidates do in urban Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, they need almost unattainable margins in the Philly suburbs or in the state's rural areas — the Trump route.

Be smart: Trump told "CBS Evening News" anchor Jeff Glor just after the Singapore summit: "I dream about Biden. That's a dream. ... I'd love to have it be Biden." What Trump meant was "wouldn't."


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2020election; biden; biden2020; paping; pennsylvania; trump; trump2020
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To: dowcaet

good point. Biden will find both the primary, and the general, if he makes it to be very very difficult.


101 posted on 07/25/2018 8:56:57 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: yesthatjallen

Biden can’t put 2 and 2 together and come up with 4.


102 posted on 07/25/2018 9:28:15 AM PDT by Conserv (A)
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To: yesthatjallen

My magic 8 ball said the Dems will lose in a landslide...and it is as accurate as the polls now...


103 posted on 07/25/2018 10:02:42 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: yesthatjallen

Biden WOULD be the strongest Dem candidate in 2020, but the party will never again allow an old white man who isn’t a avowed Communist to run ...


104 posted on 07/25/2018 10:47:05 AM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: catnipman

Yup...


105 posted on 07/25/2018 11:07:00 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY)
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To: catnipman
Biden WOULD be the strongest Dem candidate in 2020, but the party will never again allow an old white man who isn’t a avowed Communist to run ..

I would have believed that before Trump but Trump makes these extraordinary times for Democrats.

Their number one mission is to get rid of Trump. If that means they have to use a white man to do it, I think they'll bite the bullet.

It will mean 'the revolution' will be delayed a few years but that's a small price to pay to get rid of Trump and take back the White House.

106 posted on 07/25/2018 11:28:32 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

“If that means they have to use a white man to do it, I think they’ll bite the bullet.”

the leadership perhaps ... but then there’s that whole pesky notion of primary voters in each state, plus the Dems are on the verge of nuking their super-delegates for the first round of convention voting ... so it will all depend upon which groups of primary voters are motivated to turn out in which states ... the Dem kommies have huge advantages in the kommie states of California, NY, Illinois & NJ ...


107 posted on 07/25/2018 12:55:08 PM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: castlegreyskull

I think he sat it out because his son passed away.


108 posted on 07/25/2018 1:17:17 PM PDT by enduserindy (IÂ’m done explaining basic math and the definition of freedom.)
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To: yesthatjallen
yeah, right...

109 posted on 07/25/2018 4:32:59 PM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: grania

Biden would have beaten Trump easily, and he is still their best choice for 2020.


110 posted on 07/25/2018 4:50:27 PM PDT by Jim Noble (p)
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To: Jim Noble

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Biden is a farce!
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111 posted on 07/25/2018 4:51:49 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: yesthatjallen

“Have Democrats ever cared about the stink of their own?”

The Democrats who crossed the aisle to vote for Trump because they were disenchanted with Obama certainly will, and those are the votes Biden would have to be competing for.


112 posted on 07/26/2018 7:23:32 AM PDT by Boogieman
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