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."
Here we go.
Biden’s brain is not in much better shape than Hillary’s and he is a very dirty old man.
Fake news.
Axios is a Left Wing propaganda outlet..................
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Bring on Creepy Gropin’ Joe!
(He’s a plagiarist, too)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
The guy was pulled up from the garbage dump, as Trump put it. Trump has a way of putting a guy’s character right up front.
I am quite sure, Trump will call him Joe “the Groper.”
The Groper will stick like glue to Biden. He’ll be lucky to get one state.
Mike Allen doesn’t write about what’s happening, he writes about what he’d like to happen, which has very little value in real life.
I think he would've won PA, WI & MI is 2016!
Democrats probably would've stuck with Biden instead of taking a chance with TRUMP
Bad news for Biden! They are NOT going back to Biden this time around after seeing how well TRUMP has handled the economy!
He would have won in 2016 without Pennsylvania.
In 2020, he will probably pick up Minnesota and others.
I think Biden would be a strong candidate.
But what I think is missing from this article is that if the Trump economic juggernaut continues, the white working class voters will see that he delivered on his promises, and will not see the need to change. In this context, “four more years” beats “change”. In 2024, that will likely not be the case, but I think it is in 2020.
‘Pennsylvania, where Trump campaigned frequently and fervently in 2016, will be the toughest to hold’...
nope...Michigan will be tougher...
Biden is the least loony of the Democrats being mentioned so it stands to reason he’d be the toughest challenger for Trump. But far from a sure winner.
Biden's slogan will be 'Win one for the Groper"
“HANDS” BIDEN???
Really?
No way can that dumbkopf win. He has far too much baggage. Just because Obama chose him as a safety valve to prevent assassination while he was in office does not give him the gravitas to be President.
Especially if Trump drops the tariff on imported light trucks and SUVs.
Make all the jokes you want, but Biden’s more viable than Warren, Harris, Gillibrand. He hasn’t gone full loony with anti-ICE rhetoric.
“”PLEASE, don’t throw me in that briar patch!! PLEASE!!””
Since I don’t watch TV news, I would like to have seen the ‘expression & body language’ when he said ‘I would love to see Biden and the ‘reporter’ interprets that as really meaning he wouldn’t like to see him.
I would imagine PDT has to change his shorts a few times everyday because of all the excitement he generates each time he makes a fool of one of these LIBS and/or RINOs.
Just wish he would start making these clowns pay for all this trash etc they have caused over the last couple of years, not to mention the WASTED MONEY on all these investigations etc....BE nice if ‘we’ could bill ‘them’ like the old ‘You lose the case, you pay for BOTH lawyers’ would certainly cut down on idiotic law suits.
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