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applegrove

(118,022 posts)
Sun Feb 20, 2022, 07:34 PM Feb 2022

Biden Needs a Trump Substitute

Biden Needs a Trump Substitute

February 20, 2022 at 5:47 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 82 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/02/20/biden-needs-a-trump-substitute/

"SNIP......

“Searching for a strategy to avoid a 2022 midterm disaster, advisers to President Biden have discussed elevating a unifying Republican foil not named Donald Trump,” Axios reports.

“Biden confidants worry that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is too unknown, that Biden won’t demonize Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell because of their longstanding and collegial relationship and that elevating Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis could backfire.”

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Biden Needs a Trump Substitute (Original Post) applegrove Feb 2022 OP
Oligarchs like Thiel and the Kochs and Putin. Trump is just applegrove Feb 2022 #1
The average voter has no idea who Thiel or the Koch Brothers are. brooklynite Feb 2022 #6
The mid term disaster will be for Republicans. pwb Feb 2022 #2
Agree! PortTack Feb 2022 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author PortTack Feb 2022 #5
Rafael Cruz Zorro Feb 2022 #3

applegrove

(118,022 posts)
1. Oligarchs like Thiel and the Kochs and Putin. Trump is just
Sun Feb 20, 2022, 07:36 PM
Feb 2022

their puppet and a false populist fooling people out of the middle class and into some subclass that never has any policy directed at their needs.

Response to pwb (Reply #2)

Zorro

(15,691 posts)
3. Rafael Cruz
Sun Feb 20, 2022, 07:40 PM
Feb 2022

Everybody hates him, even Republicans. But he can always be counted on to parrot the party line.

But then Cruz might like the attention. He's psycho like that.

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