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applegrove

(118,654 posts)
Sun May 10, 2020, 07:05 PM May 2020

Trump Begins His Attacks on Biden

Trump Begins His Attacks on Biden

May 10, 2020 at 5:40 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 251 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/05/10/trump-begins-his-attacks-on-biden/

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“After weeks of holding back, President Trump’s re-election campaign will unleash a series of tailored, swing-state attacks against Joe Biden, targeting him in Florida, Pennsylvania and the industrial Midwest,” Axios reports.

“The pandemic forced a pause, and a lighter touch, on Trump’s original attack plan against his presumed general election opponent.”

“Advisers warned against too much overt negative campaigning at a time when thousands of Americans are dying and voters want the president focused on running the country.”

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Trump Begins His Attacks on Biden (Original Post) applegrove May 2020 OP
He'll be mostly talking to base, no one else buys crap like China Biden or Biden likes black folk uponit7771 May 2020 #1
Who cares. C_U_L8R May 2020 #2
Trumps problem is people know him now. pwb May 2020 #3
fuck Trump Celerity May 2020 #4
Oh Drumpf....GO FUCK YOURSELF, THEN DO IT AGAIN! sfstaxprep May 2020 #5
Fuck tRump. SammyWinstonJack May 2020 #6
To be honest with you, I think people are burnt out on politics gelsdorf May 2020 #7
We can't go into a gunfight oswaldactedalone May 2020 #8
Not true rockfordfile May 2020 #9

pwb

(11,265 posts)
3. Trumps problem is people know him now.
Sun May 10, 2020, 07:10 PM
May 2020

All the ones that gave him a chance are gone. Trump will be humiliated with this defeat coming.

Celerity

(43,359 posts)
4. fuck Trump
Sun May 10, 2020, 07:11 PM
May 2020
In Florida, the campaign will hammer Biden's recent comments saying he would restore Obama-era relations with Cuba.

In Pennsylvania, the campaign plans to attack Biden for what it calls "his embrace of the Green New Deal," which they will argue "piles endless regulations" on small businesses and stunts job creation, the officials told Axios.

In the industrial Midwest: Trump's campaign will highlight Biden's support for the North American Free Trade Agreement as a senator and backing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership as Obama's vice president.

The big picture: This targeted approach comes on top of a national strategy, as Axios has reported, to brand Biden as soft on China.


The other side: None of this surprises Biden's campaign, which argues that Trump is vulnerable for mishandling the coronavirus pandemic and weakened because he can no longer brag about the economy.

Biden campaign spokesperson Andrew Bates tells Axios: "Donald Trump so abysmally failed our nation on the coronavirus that almost 80,000 Americans have lost their lives, and the historic economic recovery Trump inherited from the Obama-Biden Administration is now spiraling toward a depression." "There's no desperate ad Trump can dream up that's more horrifying than what his failed leadership is putting the American people through."

The bottom line: The offensive comes as new polls show Trump trailing Biden in key swing states, including Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.




sfstaxprep

(9,998 posts)
5. Oh Drumpf....GO FUCK YOURSELF, THEN DO IT AGAIN!
Sun May 10, 2020, 07:15 PM
May 2020

I wake up each day HOPING you get the Virus and DIE a horribly painful death.

gelsdorf

(240 posts)
7. To be honest with you, I think people are burnt out on politics
Sun May 10, 2020, 07:18 PM
May 2020

it's just been overwhelming over the last 2 months, and I don't think any ad will have the effect that it will be looking for. People are looking for a positive message, and attack ads ain't gonna cut it.
However, that's just my 2 cents

oswaldactedalone

(3,491 posts)
8. We can't go into a gunfight
Sun May 10, 2020, 07:23 PM
May 2020

carrying only a switchblade the way we normally do. We need bazookas and rocket launchers just to keep the playing field level. Roll out the heavy artillery Dems and Repubs who hate Drumpf, it's the only way to compete against this monster.

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