Posted on 04/09/2020 6:23:27 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
For weeks, President Donald Trump has dominated television coverage with daily White House briefings on the coronavirus pandemic, declaring himself a “wartime president” and touting his administration’s response.
But Trump’s tendency to pepper his news conferences with misstatements, untruths and scientifically questionable advice has armed Democrats with a wealth of ready-made sound-bites to use against him ahead of the Nov. 3 election.
The challenge for Democrats - and their presumptive presidential nominee, Joe Biden - is how to highlight what they see as Trump’s failures in handling the crisis without appearing too crassly political when Americans are dying and losing their livelihoods as a result of the disease.
In advertisements in battleground states that will decide the election, the Biden campaign and Democratic-aligned groups are testing ways of counter-programming Trump’s messaging, while trying to avoid alienating swing voters whose allegiance remains up for grabs.
Priorities USA, a Democratic super PAC that has spent $7 million on pandemic-themed digital and TV commercials in five swing states, is using online panels with voters in key states to test for any backlash, said spokesman Josh Schwerin.
The group has grappled with how to spotlight Trump’s words without sharing misinformation. Like other Democratic-aligned organizations, Schwerin said it was refusing to use clips of Trump promoting unproven treatments or saying he would wear a mask if he thought it was important.
The Democratic National Committee has been sending out tweets and releases to combat Trump’s daily briefings. The organization also has a research team of about 30 people compiling clips of Trump and other administration officials to repackage later in the year.
Aware of the potential sensitivity in messaging, a DNC spokesman said the organization would avoid citing the number of deaths in criticizing Trump.
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They’re saving some of their venom for the moment he tries to reopen.
The only thing democrats tread carefully on is the workings of Karl Marx and Mao Zedong.
He is going to be the president who beat the virus and rebuilt theconomy twice.
Whatsa’ matta’, Rooooters? Dems not attacking Trump as ruthlessly as you’d like? Well, tough kittens! (Nothing against people who like cats. Just sayin’)
>>declaring himself a “wartime president”
Germany and England have made the same analogy
Have you noticed how they never give examples of his so called misstatements or half truths.
Oh yeah. We all know how liberals just HATE to be "crassly political."
"Huh????"
No it’s because they are screwed on this.
“...Biden - is how to highlight what they see as Trump’s failures in handling the crisis without appearing too...”
What? It took three people to write this?
The democrats do not see Trump’s failure to do anything.
Dems look to exploit anything they can construe to appear as a failure
The democrats care about one thing. Their own power. That is all.
” Elizabeth Culliford, Joseph Ax, Trevor Hunnicutt “
Why does it always seem to require a committee to write a Leftist hit-piece?
What? They have done nothing but viciously attack him constantly from day 1.
They said Trump lied about the virus being a threat in November.
In the biggest election in the last 200 years(so say the Dems) they have the fact that President Trump doesn’t want to wear a mask, and he is pushing a treatment that cures Covid-19 in 90% of cases?
Fauci is still using every health care event to find a cure for AIDS. When he/they throw away their preconceptions and look at both of these from a neutral perspective they may do that. I am not a scientist, but it seems they are enamored with their electron microscopes and tech. What works, works.
Why keep looking for the silver bullet? In the case of AIDS you killed nearly every person you treated with AZT, flat out murdered them. Refusal to use the observation method, like pushing Hydrochloroquine/zinc/zithromax, highlights the greed of the industry and inability to use logic to overrule political bias. You would rather people die while you search for a panacea, than use what you have and figure it out later.
Make no mistake about it, Fauci and his worshippers see themselves as spies inside the enemy camp.
Reuters is subversive institution, like Democrat Party.
This is a problem because they Democrats are putting up such an intelligent and eloquent candidate who can speak to this crisis with a commanding grasp of the facts and societal implications.
Two are writers. They try to write in Newspeak; one watches the other.
The third is the political officer. Xe ensure the piece aligns with the current truth.
We have screenshots the like of which make the Dems look so bad!
Best commercial
Trumps sotu speech. Talks about corona virus. Nancy tears speech in two says there’s nothing in it. “ The Democrats weren’t listening “
Fake news needs conspirators, so three get together to write
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