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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBiden Proves an Elusive Target, Adding to Trump's Frustration
Few politicians delight in seizing on the news of the day, or even the hour, to ridicule their rivals as President Trump, but Joseph Biden has been mostly off camera and avoiding gaffes.When Senator Bernie Sanders lost the Democratic nomination and the economy collapsed this spring, two pillars of President Trumps re-election strategy collapsed at the same time: his plan to run on prosperity and against a far-left opponent. But Mr. Trumps campaign took comfort in the expectation that Joseph R. Biden Jr.s penchant for gaffes would at least offer them dependable fodder for attack.
The pandemic, and Mr. Bidens play-it-safe campaign, however, have starved them of even that.
With mandated social distancing measures entering their fourth month in many states, Mr. Biden has held few events and therefore committed few missteps. He conducts television interviews and has slowly started to hold public events. But Mr. Bidens aides said they had no plans to stage the sort of rallies Mr. Trump will begin holding again Saturday and which the presidents campaign had been counting on as the most reliable source of Biden gaffes.
So Mr. Trumps advisers are trying to flush Mr. Biden into the open. They have taken to taunting him for remaining in the basement of his Delaware home, and counting the days since he last held a news conference. On Thursday they demanded that the former vice president agree to more debates in the fall, asking for four instead of the traditional three.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/us/politics/donald-trump-joe-biden-coronavirus.html
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Biden Proves an Elusive Target, Adding to Trump's Frustration (Original Post)
Zorro
Jun 2020
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Andy823
(11,495 posts)1. All Joe has to do is
sit back and watch trump make a fool of himself, something that trump is really, really good at!
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)2. +100 Spot on!
Stinky The Clown
(67,761 posts)5. Absotively, posilutely
LakeArenal
(28,802 posts)3. Taunting Joe doesn't work.
He has been taunted by better than trump.
Cha
(296,848 posts)4. FO NYT.. Mention any BLOTUS GAFFES, lately?