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."
Biden is the only dem I think with a chance. I’m not sure of the odds but would say they favor President Trump. That said I’m not convinced Biden could win the nomination. They can sell him as wildly popular but he isn’t Clinton.
People here do like Slow Joe for God-only-knows what reason.
This is only my opinion, so it may contain errors.
It seems to me, some time ago, hardcore lefties who worked for MSM publications, i.e., Washington Post, et al, decided they were exposed as “hardcore lefties” so they decided to start a new publication: Politico.
Well, they were then exposed, so they decided to start: The Hill.
Well, they were then exposed, so they decided to start: Axios.
I cannot tell you how many places I have seen the name “Mike Allen,” as a contributor.
Or, I am totally wrong.
bull hockey
I don’t think Biden is extreme. They should have ran him in 2016. They may have won. I find him rather likable. I would never vote for him though.
The majority of Dems want some new faces. Biden, Sanders, and Pelosi belong in the geriatric ward. Unfortunately for them, the new faces are socialists and communists.
Biden will be whatever they want him to be.
Along with PA, the eastern part of OH could be lost to Biden. I don't know that there's been enough move to "Made in USA" manufacturing of basics to impress Trumps underemployed and underskilled supporters.
Keepin' it real, folks.
Now there's a thought to galvanize our base.
You win the internet today. Best Picture!
Yeah, he never really stood for anything.
True, but he still has the stink of Obama all over him. That ain’t washing off.
Trump needs to keep reminding those folks that Biden and the Democrats have merely PROMISED to do something to ease their pain for the past forty years.
Trump is actually DOING it.
Biden was VP for 8 years to Obama, and HE is calling anyone else ‘not morally or politically fit’ to be President?
That is a big laugh.
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.”””
Especially when Warren is constantly running her mouth about raising taxes back up-—and OVER 50%.
That's all.
I agree.
Just as Trump won because he recognized the anger and resentment of American workers and voters Biden can do the same and 'flip the switch'.
People can laugh at and discount Biden but so did Hillary and the Democrats laugh at and discount Trump.
Mocking, ignoring, and discounting Biden won't make him go away and won't make him less of a threat.
The MSM will ignore all the creepy pictures and wacky comments Biden made and turn him to the Great Democratic Hope to take down Trump.
If nominated Democrats will vote for him and they'll consider his years as VP for Obama as a plus.
Melania might fear Uncle Creepy but it’s Uncle Creepy who should fear Trump.
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