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Trumps latest line of attack has been the ill-defined conspiracy theory known as Obamagate which Mediaite founder Dan Abrams has dismissed as 100 percent bullshit but it certainly wasnt the first, and wont be the last. The hobby horse has found plenty of traction among Trumps supporters and media allies, but not much anywhere else.
If recent past is prologue, the presumptive Democratic nominee might tale comfort in knowing that Trumps political apparatus is having a difficult time divining a persuasive attack strategy.
On Friday, The New York Times published a deeply-reported piece by Alexander Burns, Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Martin, and Nick Corasaniti entitled A Sitting President, Riling the Nation During a Crisis, which noted the frequency and ferocity of Trumps attacks on Biden. They described Trumps recent attacks as a lurch by Mr. Trump back to the darkest tactics that defined his rise to political power.
But deep in that report was the revelation that Trumps attempts at tarring Biden some of which hes still using are not effective, according to his allies own data:
Last month, a poll commissioned by the Republican National Committee tested roughly 20 lines of attack against Mr. Biden, ranging from the private business activities of his son, Hunter Biden, to whether Mr. Biden has lost a step, a reference to mental acuity. None of the lines of attack significantly moved voter sentiment, according to two people briefed on the results. There were some lines of attack that had potential, one of the people briefed on the results said, but they were more traditional Republican broadsides about issues like taxes.
Cha
(297,216 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,124 posts)competent persons around. Biden would make a great president, easily beating the POS in office now.
Americans are looking for competent leadership obviously and Biden provides this. The POS in office now easily provides fodder every day of just how incompetent he is.
kimbutgar
(21,148 posts)one was about how the media was unfair to MF45. They had these quotes where you answer yes, no, no opinion. it was so obvious they were doing this poll to get talking points. Poor MF45 is being vilified by the Media like Jesus Christ Based on the questions.
Pathetic and hilarious at the same time.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)by aiding and abetting the gang pushing the story around the internet.
tulipsandroses
(5,124 posts)The only people that will buy the smears are the MAGA base. For all the hand wringing people are doing. He is going to need more than the MAGA base to win this time around. He has not expanded his base and the people that took a chance on him, many are jumping ship.
sop
(10,177 posts)so many bullshit charges, no one believes anything that comes out of his mouth, not even his most credulous followers. At this point, Biden could shoot someone on 5th Avenue, and if Trump released the only videotape, Joe would walk free.
Stallion
(6,474 posts)zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)The pundits have said all along that it is the incumbents race to lose. The GOP can't create a new impression of someone that everyone already knows.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)An endless skein of fuck-ups, failures, broken promises, incompetence, and outright theft isn't really something he can run on. Certainly none of that "are you better off now than you were four years ago" retrospective.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)that's why we despise him...
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)attacking Biden on China, one with the "approved by Donald J Trump" tag and another from a GOP PAC are running pretty often.
PlanetBev
(4,104 posts)Looks like theyve run out of 💩 to throw at the wall.