The Biden campaign has no plans for paid ads involving the verdict, a source tells me. That cannot set the tone for the whole party. There's a big opening to use this against not just Trump, but also Rs who attacked our system to put him above the law.
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the DC area is a bubble of delusion at the best of times. people who work in govt have no fuckin clue what reality is bc DC is like Disneyland for politics (a constructed, false experience), and biden’s been soaking in it for his whole life
i lives & worked in the area and fuckin hated it
They think fighting would alienate Republican voters, who they still have fantasies of winning over, while taking their own flagging and demotivated base for granted.
As always, democrats act like they've got this one in the bag, because, as usual, no matter how disappointing the democrats can be, the utter ghoulishness of the republican position makes democrat the more reasonable choice by default. Of course, the republican voter is not reasonable. And thus....
"why won’t these people fucking fight?"
Something I've been wondering about since Bush v. Gore (2000). I think a lot involves timid, risk-averse complacency tied to gerontocratic leaders who haven't updated their tactics and views in decades.
It's exhausting that I'm still going to vote Dems up and down the ballot when so many are such chickens. Biden should be telling everyone that Trump is a convicted felon and rapist. And yet.. we go high!
The important word to me here is "plan." We are in uncharted territory and normie politicos don't know the correct way to act here, so they will follow the polling rather than lead out in front of it because the latter is risky.
Biden will fight, but only after following to see what works first.
This might be one of those issues where proxies do the heavy lifting. I'm also going to be curious to see how Biden handles this during the debates.
Debates don't often have defining moments but Biden might be able to needle TFG into meltdown.
The swing states in 2016. Greetings from Ohio. There’s nobody in existence that doesn’t know who Trump is. The ones who chose to overlook it do so be a they are so pro life, anti LGBTQ, anti diversity they don’t care as long as they win. The small other group cares about their bank account
I live in a red state, now, and it is frankly wild how many terrible things Trump has said or done are just completely unknown to a lot of people. Most recent example being an ex-Marine who didn't know about Trump's fucked up comments about veterans at the cemetery in Normandy.
Yup. I know because in a past life I worked in NYC real estate, where Trump being a criminal is taken as a given.
Much of middle America, at least in 2016, equated Trump with the character he played on Celebrity Apprentice.
Cousins of mine who think the character Trump played on Apprentice is real also long for the days when we celebrated “Real American” war heroes like Ron Reagan and John Wayne.
This plan reminds me of many TV shows that I've liked. They were great to me but I'm an oddball that doesn't predict where the herd is headed.
Hope Biden doesn't get dropped like Firefly.
It's baffling right? The only way it makes sense to me is that they truly don't care about anything but maintaining their status quo... Even though they allow the right to push it further and further right. They just go with and make sure they don't cause a fuss.
If I had to wager a reason: they want to keep some distance between thy criminal prosecutions and the campaign to avoid the sense they are linked.
We'll see if they change their tune, but the next few trials are federal, so it's even more fraught.
It's infuriating how stupid this tactic is when you have an oppositional party who will lie about the fact that it's linked no matter what you do. Centering the right and their claims has gotten us here.
