The 2020 Presidential Election is over almost a year…
Joe Biden IS the President…
But?
Donald Trump has been crying since Election Day and trying to diminish the Biden win….
Biden has seldom gone back to campaign mode, going after Trump…..
But with Biden’s polling numbers in the 40’s?
Some Democrats are getting antsy and are beginning to push for Biden to start the 2024 Presidential campaign a full three years in advance….(And a year before the 2022 Midterm elections)…
Some do NOT want Biden getting back into the political mud with Trump, who used that tactic successfully against fellow Republicans for the 2016 Republican Presidential nomination….They’d prefer letting Trump sabotage his own chances in a possible effort to get the Presidency back….
As former President Donald Trump maintains his grip on the Republican Party and further spreads conspiracies about the 2020 election, some Democrats and progressive activists are urging President Joe Biden to speak out more forcefully against his predecessor.
During his first nine months in office, Biden has largely avoided attacking Trump by name, even as he has broadly criticized those sowing doubt about the electoral process and pushed for measures to safeguard voting rights.
Some Democrats agree with Biden’s posture, arguing that he should not provide oxygen to Trump and his baseless claims of election fraud when he is no longer in power. But others in the party say Biden should be more focused on combating efforts they see as undermining democracy, especially as Trump ramps up his political activity ahead of the 2022 and 2024 elections….
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Some Democrats also see a political advantage to combating Trump more forcefully. While he is the dominant figure within the Republican Party, he remains unpopular with the broader electorate….
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Paul Begala, the chief strategist on Bill Clinton’s first presidential campaign, said Biden should tap back into the intense voter distaste of Trump that helped him get elected in the first place. “I wouldn’t lose that thread. It’s not like Trump is off building houses for poor people like Jimmy Carter,” Begala said. “He is trying to undermine a constitutional order in every way he can.” Sarah Longwell, an anti-Trump Republican strategist who conducts focus groups of voters, said Democrats putting Trump at the center of their campaign pitch will help energize the Democratic base….
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Democratic strategist Joel Payne said that Biden benefits politically from Trump staying in the public eye because it reminds Americans why they voted him out of office. But he said Biden using the bully pulpit to get into the mud with Trump could backfire. “That’s not Joe Biden’s brand,” he said….
image…Time Magazine