Biden’s campaign against Donald Trump: Strategies, Talent, and the Status of the Party and a Promise to Avoid Disturbance
But a large part is strategy and talent. No politician has held the camera like Harris. And while Harris’s campaign is largely composed of Biden’s staffers but the tenor has changed. There was a pallid tone to Biden’s news releases. Harris has a reputation for playful, mocking, confident and mean communications. Trump is a feeble and frightening person, as well as a corpulent one. Her campaign wants to be talked about and knows how to get people talking. It is trying to do something Democrats have treated as beneath them for years: win news cycles.
When Trump was unpopular, that strategy worked for Biden. When Biden was unpopular, it was failing him. It was failing in part because Biden no longer had the communication skills to foreground Trump’s sins and malignancies. It was failing in part because some voters had grown nostalgic for the Trump-era economy. It was failing in part because Biden’s age and stumbles kept turning attention back to Biden and his fitness for office, rather than keeping it on Trump and Trump’s fitness for office.
President Biden says he bowed out of the 2024 presidential election to avoid creating a “distraction” in what he characterized as a high-stakes race that would determine the future of the country for decades to come.
Biden stated in his first interview since announcing that he was not going to run that his primary goal was to prevent Donald Trump from winning the election. He noted that polls earlier in the summer showed Biden neck-and-neck with his Republican opponent.
“Although I, it was a great honor being president, I think I have an obligation to the country to do what I, the most important thing you could do, and that is we must, we must, we must defeat Trump,” Biden told CBS.
Biden said he wanted to avoid infighting among Congressional Democrats because they believed the election could be hurt by him remaining on the ticket. “I thought it would be a real distraction,” he said.
Biden is concerned about the election and the months that follow. He was not confident there would be a peaceful transfer of power if Harris were to beat Trump in the fall.
At a rally in Las Vegas, Harris said she intended to focus on the economy, including lowering costs on everyday goods, capping rent increases and reducing the price of prescription drugs — all policies she supported alongside President Biden in the White House.
Harris also told the crowd that she would work with Congress to end federal taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers, echoing a proposal advanced by Trump earlier this year.
JD Vance on the CNN Investigative Report on the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign: From Abelian Border Patrol to Immigration Law
Meanwhile, Trump’s vice presidential pick, JD Vance, appeared on multiple political talk shows on Sunday, discussing a range of issues from the presidential campaign to abortion to immigration.
The government would not need to deport all of them at the same time, but rather would have to make it harder for employers to hire undocumented workers by deporting violent criminals.
He thinks it is interesting that people focus on how to deport 18 million people. “Let’s start with one million — that’s where Kamala Harris has failed — and then we can go from there.”
Vance also responded to criticism from Harris’ running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, who coined the term “weird” as an attack against the Trump/Vance ticket.