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Biden’s Strategy to Make the Race About Trump Is Suddenly in Doubt
The New York Times | Yahoo ^ | July 8, 2024 | by Reid J. Epstein

Posted on 07/08/2024 6:40:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

From the outset of President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, the plan for winning was to make former President Donald Trump so unpalatable that voters uneasy with the incumbent would vote for him anyway.

But now Biden is stuck in a political tailspin, with an abysmal debate performance highlighting his inability to make a case against Trump and prompting a collective national hand-wringing about his ability to do his job while an increasing number of House Democrats say he should leave the race. To get voters to focus on the threats posed by a second Trump administration, Biden’s own allies say he first must escape his current doom loop and convince voters — even and especially fellow Democrats — that he is up to the job himself.

Indeed, the Biden campaign has long sought to make Trump its focus.

That’s why Biden kicked off this year with a blistering speech about Trump’s attempt to overthrow the last election, why his allies spent millions to block the No Labels effort and why the president has tried to highlight the anniversaries of news regarding abortion rights.

And it is why Biden’s top aides thought it was a good idea to move the first debate from September to June.

“From the beginning, it’s been clear that Biden and the Democrats must make this election a choice, not a referendum on the president,” said Matt Bennett, a co-founder of Third Way, the Democratic think tank that has led efforts to stop independent and third-party candidates from siphoning votes from Biden. “That means focusing voter attention on Trump’s criminality, chaos and cruelty. Once we emerge from this period of uncertainty, the party must get back to prosecuting that case full time.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; dementia; democrats; election2024; lawfare; socialism; tyranny; witchhunt
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To: Mr. Mojo

Trump just needs to stay on message and propose solutions. Drilling, building back military, reforming the DOJ and other agencies, getting economy moving(by getting out of the way). Winning formula. Let the Democrats be the party of character assassination. Yoga pants Momns hate that.


21 posted on 07/08/2024 7:24:59 AM PDT by pburgh01
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To: cnsmom

The Liberals are finally drowning in their quicksand of vile sewage. They don’t have any sane pople left to save them.They have destroyed their cities, unions, schools LEO, healthcare systems and courts.


I don’t think they are drowning. They are “fleeing a sinking ship.”

Where are they going?


22 posted on 07/08/2024 7:26:52 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Laslo Fripp

When your opponent is sinking, stay deep and run silent.


23 posted on 07/08/2024 7:27:35 AM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! There)
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To: pburgh01

By the convention the damage will be irreversible. The media needs red meat and it is Biden Biden 24/7 Democrats are really short sighted. We can see the pinhole leak overhead about to burst.


24 posted on 07/08/2024 7:29:28 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: PeterPrinciple

In the old days they had these things called “conventions” where delegates actually voted for the presidential nominee candidates.

:-)


25 posted on 07/08/2024 7:31:00 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Laslo Fripp

Yes. Napoleon said, “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

What is interesting is how Democrats are saying two contradictory things. They say Joe Biden loves his country while they attack him for his destructive hubris.


26 posted on 07/08/2024 7:31:30 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: PeterPrinciple

They have nowhere to go, their footprints are glowing with radioactive green material with everymovement they make.


27 posted on 07/08/2024 7:33:13 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: cnsmom

The Destruction is planned.

Cloward-Piven

Out challenge at hand is to stop this NOW.

Other wise, it will not be a problems solved by the Ballot Box. But another Box.

There is only one type of good Communist.


28 posted on 07/08/2024 7:37:13 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Texas Fossil
We are not in a position to save Europe again.

Good. It is long past time that Europe stood on its own.

29 posted on 07/08/2024 7:38:26 AM PDT by Avalon Memories (Joe Biden puts illegal aliens first. I put America first! - Donald Trump, 5/23/24)
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To: V_TWIN

Well, do you think if Biden continues to refuse, the Deep State will solve it by another means?


30 posted on 07/08/2024 7:38:48 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: cnsmom

They have nowhere to go, their footprints are glowing with radioactive green material with everymovement they make.


wrong, they are going someplace. keep your eyes on the ball.

I understand what you are saying but you need to understand they are not dead. We have not won yet.

I have vivid memories of shelling ear corn in the corn crib. The rats and mice did not die. They moved.


31 posted on 07/08/2024 7:39:59 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Texas Fossil

I cannot wait for the convention in CHICAGO. I want a rerun of 1968. I want chaos. I want them burned to the ground.


32 posted on 07/08/2024 7:42:30 AM PDT by Mouton (A 150MT hit may not solve our problems now but is a good start. )
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To: laplata

Yes. I expect that.

Look what happened in France. Macron blew it out his A$$.

Now the Communists and the Socialists totally control France.

Kiss of Death. Quick acting.


33 posted on 07/08/2024 7:43:31 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Mouton

It will happen. Seems like there were close to 30 deaths over the weekend and 87 wounded in Block Parties?

God Help US(A) All.


34 posted on 07/08/2024 7:45:21 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Texas Fossil

That’s why I said I’d sure like to see how, because after what they did to bernie sanders in 2016 they are capable of anything


35 posted on 07/08/2024 7:46:36 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Avalon Memories

They have relied upon the USA since WWII. They are totally unprepared. And the public is disarmed. Fatal Error.


36 posted on 07/08/2024 7:46:39 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: V_TWIN

Correcto

Anything and nobody will touch them.


37 posted on 07/08/2024 7:48:55 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

I don’t want them dead I believe in a two party system. As Trump said we all wished Biden had been a good president not Obama’s puppet.Biden could have done nothing and we would have been better off.


38 posted on 07/08/2024 7:54:27 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: Mouton

I cannot wait for the convention in CHICAGO. I want a rerun of 1968. I want chaos. I want them burned to the ground.


With phones that also function as cameras in everyone’s hands in 2024, the challenge for Americans observing both conventions from afar will be less censorship and a paucity of live imagery than the reverse – an overabundance of unsorted imagery, potentially coupled with a proliferation of disinformation, amplified by those with malicious intent.

There are many differences between the 1968 and 2024 conventions. One of the biggest is that now, the whole world is filming. The problem today is not how much we can see but how much we can believe.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/2024-is-not-1968-and-the-democratic-convention-in-chicago-will-play-out-very-differently-than-in-the-days-of-walter-cronkite/ar-BB1pBLTt


It will be the same but different?

The Biden debate did shine the light on things and change opinions about Biden, but not much change in democrats goals?

The above is worth thinking about.


39 posted on 07/08/2024 7:55:13 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
It's nice for once to see President Trump NOT commit any unforced errors. He is standing back as Biden swirls around the bowl. Once Biden is flushed, he can step back into the spotlight.

IMO, all President Trump has to do is contrast himself with the rats (not Slow Joe in particular), and present himself as a safe alternative. The public's memory is short, and he can pave over his image of a brash, boisterous bully with that of a calm, sensible statesman. He needs to reassure them. All it takes is percentage of independents.

40 posted on 07/08/2024 7:56:36 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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