Posted on 07/17/2020 7:48:07 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
President Donald Trump's political advisers have bluntly told him he can't win the November election if the campaign is about him, and for weeks they unsuccessfully urged him to pivot to a new strategy focused on his general election opponent, Joe Biden.
Trump finally appeared to heed the advice Tuesday, although the setting and the tone of the political broadside may not have been what his advisers had envisioned. Trump's remarks, which mentioned Biden 31 times, were monotone, and the backdrop — the White House Rose Garden — was a break from longtime presidential efforts to separate official and re-election business.
"Biden was here 47 years," Trump said in a hastily arranged news conference that followed a televised appearance by Biden before he pivoted to Biden's son Hunter Biden and Burisma. "Hunter, where's Hunter? Where is Hunter, by the way?"
Still, allies say, Trump — rightly or wrongly — sees everything as personal. And his penchant for giving his opponents nicknames and pointing out what he sees as their physical faults has kept him from landing a real punch on Biden.
"Sleepy sounds pretty good when you've had four years of exhaustion," a White House official quipped.
Another person close to the president echoed the argument that the strategy hasn't worked, "given the chaos" of the administration.
Trump has tried to tether Biden to the "radical left," but that hasn't stuck, either.
Trump, instead, has latched onto the culture wars, including defending Confederate monuments.
Rudy Giuliani recently visited the White House.
Giuliani said he wants at least two of the debates to be in a format in which Trump and Biden question each other, which he suggested would be aimed at showing any cognitive deficiencies on Biden's part.
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It TOOK 4 “People” to write this BULLSHIT!
Alternate universe stuff
BS. All they have to do is watch Biden punch himself silly. Sillier.
The Left will do everything in its power to ensure that Biden doesn’t have to get on the debate stage with the President. They know, all too well, what will happen. Just have to wonder how many voters are going to be ok with that. How does anyone think Biden will do when he has to talk to an adversarial world leader when he won’t even get on a stage with the President? Putin is the boogeyman, right? How will Biden fare against him when he won’t get on a stage with the President?
I am soooooo gonna love election night coverage....
Biden has always been a racist and that is his weakness among others.
its difficult to land a punch on a guy who’s hiding in his basement
and besides, it would be unsportsmanlike to punch a mental defective
Biden will hang on his own words about his kids being in a racial jungle with segregation.
It is hard for Trump to land a punch at Biden because Biden is punching himself so much it’s hard to get a clear shot. “I’m Joe Biden and I’m running for US Senate and if you don’t like me vote for the other guy.” And there are dozens of these but the best is “I’ll raise you taxes and de-fund the police.”
I guess the word “Confederate” has to be in any article about Trump.
What struggle?
Buy lotsa' popcorn!!
Right now, the race has been framed as Trump v. Anti-Trump. Biden has not been defined yet. Trump has to hammer Biden as being a placeholder for the radical left that will take over if he is elected. He has to tie Biden to Bernie’s radical left agenda, which Biden has signed onto, whether Biden knows it or not.
Once Biden is defined properly, Biden’s poll numbers are going down.
Its not nice to assault disabled seniors!
The late Harlan Ellison (Star Trek and many books) said: Whenever a screenplay credit shows more than one, usually three or more names, it means the studio found the first writer impossibly incompetent and hired another, then possibly 2 more, etc. to be "story doctors" to save it from the scrap heap.
Trouble with leftist biased news media is the trash bag they reach into for more writers has more versions of garbage producers in it.
Yep, game set and match.
“””Inside the Trump campaign’s struggle to land a punch on Biden””””
I believe it is a major felony for someone to punch a decrepit old person who has dementia.
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