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Every day Donald Trump says that the people who don't for him are his enemies. He says he wants to get retribution against other Americans. No President has ever expressed such hatred toward his fellow Americans. I want to be the President for all Americans, whether you vote for me or not.
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Anyway, I'm just watching Biden's interview and am wishing he could make the case for himself in a way that could be heard by the 99% of his gettable voters who don't give a crap about Japan's budget or vague promises about the tax code.
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"I'm on the phone with Prime Ministers of other countries every day" is not an answer to the age question that will make any sense to the people of Scranton, and if anyone should know that it would be Biden.
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Vague statements about how America is the greatest country in the world combined with technocratic details (no matter how accurate and consequential for the lives of ordinary Americans) just aren't, IMO, the kind of messaging that's going to break through.
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"I'm running against Trump because I think the ideas he stands for & the policies he advocates are bad for all Americans. Don't just take my word for it. Professional economists say Trump's policies will put us into a recession. No Fortune 100 CEOs are supporting him because he's bad for business."
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"Trump has spent his whole life getting sued by contractors and banks because he can't even run his own businesses without ripping other people off. He's not allowed to even run a charity because he mismanaged it. We saw how he handled Covid. The guy's 99% reality TV and 1% action."
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Anyway, put me in coach. [Actually, don't do that.]
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The Project 2025 plan would be comical if wasn't for that fact that they want to make systemic failures as likely as if you replaced the main supports of the GW Bridge with 'structural mayonaise'
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Another in the long list of classic mistakes Democrats seem to insist upon repeating, election after election.
He isn't trying to break through, he's trying to show coherence.
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We better be smarter than that. Are we hiring a president or a brainless 34-felon wizard of Oz directed by project2025 behind the curtain? Who, btw, will destroy our democracy and sell every acre to Putin. It's time to stop obsessing over one guys scratchy voice & compare him to the other guys gun.
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This is what I was arguing over the debate. Yeah, his performance was messy. But the bigger problem I saw was that Biden was playing by the old rules for the consultant class. He was rapidly regurgitating talking points on policy instead of explaining what he cares about and why.
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Massive case of DC brain. It's important that there be people in the world who have DC brain, but they shouldn't be counseling the President on how to make his case for reelection.
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I think it’s been this way for decades, but charismatic speakers like Clinton and Obama overcome the institutional bias
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I guess it's better that he's too cagey rather than too senile, but the message could still use an upgrade.
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Also, in talking about his need to continue, he added to the weight of the discussion being about him rather than about trump. He worsened this.
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We do not have the luxury of an opinion. All yr thought juice from now until the election must be for absolutely SYNCOPHANTIC levels of maga level support for the BIDEN/HARRIS ADMINISTRATION. your job is to TRANSLATE FOR THE PRESIDENT to people who didn't get it. He says stuff, we: