Biden Focuses Campaign Attacks on Trump's Character

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It is obvious the Evangelicals and maga folks do not care what a creep Trump is.

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Biden Focuses Campaign Attacks on Trump’s Character


https://www.courthousenews.com/biden-focuses-campaign-attacks-on-trumps-character/

August 9, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS


BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — Joe Biden’s campaign is not anchored in a big policy idea like Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All. He is not proposing transformative change like Elizabeth Warren. Biden’s call to voters is a more visceral one, casting the 2020 race as a test of the country’s character.

The recent mass murders in Texas and Ohio have, for now, allowed Biden to re-center his campaign on those ideas. After spending the past three months largely on defense over a long policy record that draws fire from Democratic Party’s most progressive corners, Biden reasserted himself this week with a blistering takedown of President Trump’s racist language and the ways in which some of the Republican president’s anti-immigrant outbursts could have inspired one of the shootings.

“I will not let this man be reelected president of the United States of America,” Biden said this week in Iowa, where he weaved between hushed disappointment and incredulous fury over a president who offers “no moral leadership.”

Biden has hardly been alone among Democratic presidential candidates in assailing Trump after the latest murders. The shooting suspect in El Paso has been linked to a racist screed that echoed many of the president’s own tirades about an immigrant “invasion,” prompting at least two of Biden’s rivals to brand Trump a “white supremacist.”

Yet only Biden has made questions of character — that of Trump and the nation — the centerpiece of his White House bid. He says it was Trump’s equivocating response to the 2017 racial clash in Charlottesville, Virginia, that prompted him to run and he has repeatedly declared the election a battle “for the soul of the nation.”........................................

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1. In fairness, Mayor Pete has attacked religious character.