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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Tue May 14, 2019, 09:27 PM May 2019

Trump Can't Stop Attacking Biden. G.O.P Strategists Wish He Would.

Trump Can’t Stop Attacking Biden. G.O.P Strategists Wish He Would.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/us/politics/trump-biden-2020.html

Early this month, as Mr. Biden began his campaign with the endorsement of the firefighters union, Mr. Trump unleashed a barrage of almost 60 tweets and retweets about his own support from rank-and-file union members, signaling his anxiety about Mr. Biden’s standing with a crucial constituency. Aides have said that Mr. Trump is keenly aware that he won in 2016 with support from union voters who did not follow their leaders in backing Hillary Clinton.

But after all that, he then likened Mr. Biden’s bid to his own 2016 campaign, in which Mr. Trump never relinquished the lead after ascending in the polls, and suggested Mr. Biden would probably be the Democratic nominee.

Mr. Trump’s attacks on Mr. Biden have defied the pleadings of his own aides, who think almost any other candidate would be easier to defeat, and left Republicans puzzled while delighting Biden supporters.

“It just shows everybody that the vice president is the candidate Trump is most concerned about,” said Representative Cedric Richmond of Louisiana, a Biden supporter, adding with evident relish: “He just can’t help himself during executive time.”
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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Trump Can't Stop Attacking Biden. G.O.P Strategists Wish He Would. (Original Post) Miles Archer May 2019 OP
KR.. trump isn't the Cha May 2019 #1
Trump attacked Mayor Pete twice last week. crazytown May 2019 #2
"his aides think almost any other candidate would be easier to defeat" Hortensis May 2019 #3
 

Cha

(295,903 posts)
1. KR.. trump isn't the
Wed May 15, 2019, 08:54 AM
May 2019

only one.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

crazytown

(7,277 posts)
2. Trump attacked Mayor Pete twice last week.
Wed May 15, 2019, 12:12 PM
May 2019
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided
 

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
3. "his aides think almost any other candidate would be easier to defeat"
Wed May 15, 2019, 12:28 PM
May 2019
So Trump's attacking Biden with a fixation of fear they can't stop.

Good. Perhaps he sees the specter of an Obama legacy he can't destroy.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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