Both sides can say how things will be so much better under them than under their opponent and we won't know who was right and who was blowing smoke until long after the election.
Right now Trump has the advantage there based on the last two months performance. Hopefully that will continue, but as Covid takes off again and states start laying off people due to lower tax revenue it could reverse recent gains right around the election. Time will tell.
Biden has made all these pro-China remarks. They could cut commercials just replaying his remarks. If they can't figure out how to get that across they're incompetent.
And the files are full of positive statements Trump has said about Xi so both sides have their commercials ready.
The fact that Biden has not clearly condemned the rioters is not a difficult thing to explain either. I don't believe he has condemned pulling down statues either.
And he won't if he doesn't have to. And if he does then it'll be in generics condemning violence but supporting the peaceful protesters, speaking out against the statues but not supporting lawlessness, stuff like that.
During a speech at the Sichuan University while he was Obama’s Vice President, Joe Biden said he welcomes Chinese intrusion into “all levels of [U.S.] government, classrooms, laboratories, athletic fields and boardrooms.”The former veep stated at the time:
“In order to cement this robust partnership, we have to go beyond close ties between Washington and Beijing, which we’re working on every day, go beyond it to include all levels of government, go beyond it to include classrooms and laboratories, athletic fields and boardrooms.”
Biden, 77, even advocated for closer ties between the U.S. and CCP on the military front:
“…that’s why it’s also important that our military leaders work together, get to know one another — not just our political leaders, but our military leaders.”
Biden takes this reckless approach to the private sector, too:
“The United States should undertake to make it easier for Chinese businesspeople to obtain visas to travel to the United States. It takes much too long for that to happen.”
During the 50-minutes he spoke, Biden expressed support for granting China increased access to high-tech U.S. products:
“Already, we have made thousands of new items available for export to China for exclusive civilian use that were not available before, and tens of thousands of more items will become available very soon. That’s a significant change in our export policy and a rejection of those voices in America that say we should not export that kind of technology to – for civilian use in – China. We disagree, and we’re changing.”
Then there's Biden's ludicrous statement that "China is not competition for us".
So the Biden campaign is actually going to counter with some nice thing Trump said about Xi personally? I say fine.