A CNN reporter used profane language during a live report Tuesday about President Biden’s campaign strategy as his campaign looks ahead to a potential general election showdown with former President Trump.
“President Biden himself personally instructed at some of his top campaign aides to be even more aggressive in highlighting some of President Trump‘s more inflammatory and wild comments,” CNN reporter MJ Lee said live on CNN. “We‘re told that the thrust of the president‘s direction was to significantly ramp up the campaign‘s efforts to highlight the crazy shit that Trump says in public.”
Lee noted what she said the Biden campaign sees as “the black and white contrast” between the president and Trump.
Her “crazy shit” language is attributable to the sources who spoke with CNN about Biden’s direction to his campaign, as highlighted in a story she published on CNN.com.
How about instead getting people excited for what has been accomplished? Focusing on crazy shit that Trump says just energized his base.
They are. Believe it or not, campaigns generally do both. When they’re talking about touting their record that doesn’t mean they’re not also attacking their opponent elsewhere and when they’re talking about attacking their opponent that doesn’t mean they’re not also touting their record elsewhere.
His base is already energized, focusing on the crazy shit is a way to point out to moderates just how scrambled Trump’s brain has become. Biden is not going to convince Trump’s base of anything, so there’s no point wasting time and resources to try.
Because Jimmy Carter passed a shit ton of legislation but at the end of the day God Cowboy Actor won.
1980: “God Cowboy Actor” guy won
2000: “Misunderestimated nuculer” guy won
2016: “Person woman man camera TV” guy won
The hostages in Iran were released twenty minutes after Reagan’s inauguration speech. A couple years later his administration sold weapons to them.
Jimmy Carter is why I can make beer and wine at home.
Was that because of Jimmy or because Billy made him do it?
Jimmy Carter is why I have a home. Habitat for Humanity folks. Look it up, go to the first meeting, see how it works.
Who exactly is that going to turn?
The only people interested in the Biden administration’s accomplishments are already Dem voters that would never, ever, vote for Trump. All you’re really going for is winning over a few of the less stubborn progressive voters that aren’t committed to “burn it down” as the only way forward.
The Biden campaign needs to motivate the apathetic voter, and even the Republicans that are fed up with MAGA, though the later is mostly a lost cause if they’re still on the fence.
So yeah, pointing out how bat shit insane Trump is, and how dangerous a 2nd term of Trump would be, is probably a sound tactic to mobilizing the apathetic voter to just try to keep Trump out of office.