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    Why Biden isn't running around on the campaign trail

    ....he doesn't need to with trump providing seemingly unending support:

    The list of prominent people who have publicly defied President Trump — including onetime allies — keeps growing. Consider what has happened in just the past few weeks:

    Senate Republicans over the weekend refused to support Trump’s firing of a federal prosecutor who had investigated two of the president’s personal lawyers. As a result, the prosecutor’s deputy, rather than the administration’s choice, replaced him.

    A federal judge on Saturday rejected Trump’s request to block the release of a book critical of him.

    The author of that book — John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser — said in an interview with ABC News on Sunday that Trump posed a “danger for the republic.”

    Another former administration official — Jim Mattis, a retired Marine general who served as defense secretary — said Trump was trying to divide the country and “make a mockery of our Constitution.”

    Trump’s top military adviser, Gen. Mark Milley, publicly apologized for participating in a photo op with him that followed the use of tear gas against peaceful protesters.

    The Supreme Court blocked Trump’s effort to end a signature Obama administration immigration policy. (And, yes, the court is influenced by public opinion, as The Times’s Adam Liptak has explained.)

    Several Trump-friendly commentators — at The Wall Street Journal, Breitbart and elsewhere — have said his responses to the coronavirus and police violence are hurting his chances of re-election.

    The commissioner of the N.F.L. switched his position on player protests about racial injustice, which angered Trump.

    These acts of defiance are both a sign of Trump’s current weakness and a further cause of it, as Matt Glassman, a Georgetown University political scientist, told me. People feel more comfortable opposing Trump because they think he is on the wrong side of public opinion on several major issues.

    And the more people who defy Trump, the less difficult it becomes for others to do so. It was especially striking to see Senator Lindsey Graham, a frequent Trump defender, decline to support the Trump administration’s choice of a new federal prosecutor. “It’s not a random, rogue action,” Glassman said. “It’s a calculated move based on the weakness of the president.”

    None of this means Trump is doomed to lose in November. Past presidential candidates, like George H.W. Bush and Harry Truman, overcame polling deficits bigger than the one Trump currently has against Joe Biden. But sustained weakness is very dangerous for a politician.
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    And of course it has nothing to do with the fact he can't string a sentence together.
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    I don't believe I have ever seen an R candidate face such widespread opposition. Trump has managed to alienate a more diverse group of people than anyone I can remember.

    It is helpful for me to remember that Trump alienated these people, not the opinions of the posters here.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CactusCurt View Post
    Trump has managed to alienate a more diverse group of people than anyone I can remember.
    I look at that as a plus...We've all grown too accustomed to bidness as usual...It was time for a shake-up......Ben
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    Quote Originally Posted by Truckman View Post
    I look at that as a plus...We've all grown too accustomed to bidness as usual...It was time for a shake-up......Ben
    Shake ups can be a good thing---but it isn't a given. Relating that to "the swamp", if the new dwellers that are installed are not substantially better than the ones replaced there is no net gain. As I look at all the churn created in the swamp---most of the ones who had potential to improve the swamp have departed. Combine that with a "boss" who is incapable of forming a cohesive team and a strategy and all you get is a churning of the muck.
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
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    Has Biden chosen a running mate yet?

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    Nope.

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    Biden has no need to campaign - Trump is doing all the heavy lifting for him.

    Not to say I would ever vote for Biden. That will never happen!
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    Mike I agree in part and disagree in part. I do believe that Trump Is His Own Worst Enemy however I think the mass media is doing the heavy lifting for Biden. Could you imagine a republican candidate being hidden in his basement and not giving any kind of news conferences or anything 100 days + before a presidential election. They don't want him to talk because like I've said before he can't string a sentence together.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Honda View Post
    Mike I agree in part and disagree in part. I do believe that Trump Is His Own Worst Enemy however I think the mass media is doing the heavy lifting for Biden. Could you imagine a republican candidate being hidden in his basement and not giving any kind of news conferences or anything 100 days + before a presidential election. They don't want him to talk because like I've said before he can't string a sentence together.
    Like Trump can?
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    Quote Originally Posted by TriGuy View Post
    Like Trump can?
    You go ahead and vote for Biden and see how things improve in your city and neighborhood
    OPINION....a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.

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    trump should give it a try---he needs a break.

    His "crew" tried to lie him out of his insane statement about testing in Tulsa by saying he was only kidding---so now today he says he wasn't kidding---he meant to make such an ignorant statement. All righty then boss---you go get em
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    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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    Quote Originally Posted by Honda View Post
    You go ahead and vote for Biden and see how things improve in your city and neighborhood
    Excellent advice.

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