Joe Biden’s campaign against Donald Trump isn’t a good candidate for reelection: Where do we go from here?
Biden may be reserving his harshest anti-Trump lines for private fundraisers because he hasn’t had a lot of other campaign events yet. So far there have been only three public rallies to announce endorsements. Like most presidents seeking reelection, Biden isn’t expected to begin actively campaigning until next year.
Trump said that they’re destroying the country. If we don’t take it back in 24 years, I believe we will not have a country left.
“Donald Trump is up over his Republican opponents by anywhere from 40 to 50 points. Hogan Gidley, a former White House spokesman who still talks regularly with Trump, said he didn’t need to talk about any of them.
Gidley said the focus is and should be on Joe Biden. “That’s the person the Republicans would like to remove,” he said. Donald Trump should continue to attack that person.
For example, Trump’s also shifted the focus of his ads. After spending millions in ads against DeSantis, Trump’s campaign and his Super PAC have stopped spending on ads about him.
Meanwhile, in the last several weeks, they’ve spent more than $1 million in ads against Biden that started running in August, according to AdImpact, a firm that tracks ad spending.
Donald Trump shifts focus to Joe Biden: Why Trump isn’t going to win a Republican Presidential Preliminary in 2020
It signals a shift away from the closest competitor in the primary to what Trump seems to perceive to be his strongest competition overall as he prepares for the 2020 election.
Adding to that, once again Trump will skip next week’s Republican debate in California. He will speak to the striking union autoworkers in Detroit about the better contract terms they want from top automakers, according to a source.
Trump and his campaign have said numerous times that they don’t need to be with the other candidates. Ahead of the first debate, which he did not participate in, Trump said he did not want to give attention to other campaigns by standing center stage.
“Some of them are at one and zero and two,” Trump told former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in an interview on X, referring to polling numbers. I am asking, “Do I sit there for an hour or two hours?” Whatever it’s going to be, and get harassed by people that shouldn’t even be running for president? Should I be doing that?”
“Donald Trump lost in 2020 partly because he never had a good attack line against Joe Biden,” said the man who helped lead Senator Marco Rubio’s campaign. “I think he’s going to road test everything under the sun in hopes of finding a punch that can land before the general election next year.”
Source: Tired of the Republican primary, GOP frontrunner Donald Trump shifts focus to Biden
A Conversation with Biden After his Indictment in Georgia, and When Democrats Are Determined to Disrupt America: The Case Against Impeachment
He got some help from House of Representatives surrogates after his indictment in Georgia, as he was the one who led the impeachment inquiry against Biden for his dealings with his son.
“I don’t care what anybody tells you, if the incumbent president is in that environment, it’s potentially dangerous for him,” said Sosnik who was an adviser to Clinton when he was impeached.
Sosnik thinks Biden, like Clinton, will come out ahead politically in the long run, but says impeachment gives Trump an effective counter punch to excite his base ahead of his looming criminal trials.
“While this is successful in the short term,” Sosnik said, “it’s what’s going to cost him dearly in the end. In the long term, that’s the Faustian bargain that he’s decided to make.”
President Biden spoke before a theater full of enthusiastic supporters where he jabbed at the Republican front runner, Donald Trump.
Biden is typically not as guarded at the fundraisers than he is in settings with cameras present. His first reaction to the impeachment inquiry was at a Northern Virginia fundraiser.
“Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans are determined to destroy American democracy,” Biden said at one of the fundraisers, where about 1,500 donors shelled out $250 to $7,500 to hear him speak alongside Broadway stars like Lin Manuel Miranda and Josh Groban.
While the president’s public speeches focus on selling his administration’s accomplishments, these closed-door donor events are where he’s crystalizing his reelection pitch.
“Our democracy is still at stake and that’s why I’m running,” Biden said. Our most important freedom, the right to vote, the right to love and be yourself, are being attacked. They’re being shredded.”
Biden gave a similar take on Trump to a more intimate event a couple days later, when about 30 people gathered in the the Upper East Side home of Amy Goldman Fowler, a major donor to Democratic candidates and committees.
“I have a dining room, a private dining room off of the Oval Office. Biden said that this guy sat there on January 6th and watched things happen on television, and didn’t do anything about it.
Karen Finney: Making the Most of His Time with the New York Public Radio Broadcasting Network (PRNewsletter), Part II: The Case for Barack Obama’s Disruption
Karen Finney worked on Hillary Clinton’s campaign and she believes it is a smart strategy to keep the two separate.
The president would rather hear about things that affect the lives of Americans than anything politics related, as suggested by Finney.
He sometimes describes the people standing along his motorcade routes flipping him off or holding pro-Trump flags. And he often jokes about what is widely seen as his greatest weakness with voters: the fact that he is 80 years old.
Biden said that a lot of people seem focused on their age at the Broadway event this week. I understand it, believe me. I know more than anyone else.
He argued that his experience made him uniquely equipped to handle the COVID crisis and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. And he ended his remarks with his usual line about optimism — with another joke embedded inside.