Trump has been know to look down his nose as dealing with retail politics….
He like;s th energy of crowds…..
Joe Biden is an expert.…
At small encounters…..
Trump is trying to get better…..
A little at a time…..
We’ll see….
2016 Donald Trump….
A one-on-one connection is an art of the trade that most practiced politicians hone over years of courting voters in living rooms and VFW halls, shaking hands at state fairs and Veterans Day parades. The best of them can manage, in a human interaction, to convey a certain magic: the impression that a moment of campaigning is all about them. Bill Clinton could famously make a stranger at a political event feel like the only other person in the room. Lindsey Graham has talked about the joys of a retail presidential campaign (“It’s almost like running for sheriff!”) and gleefully taken donors to a skeet-shooting range. Joe Biden’s urge to make connections is, by all accounts, a driving force of his personality—his compulsive need to hug people he’s just met has gotten him into trouble in the #MeToo era.
But Trump has very little of this skill, and he has gotten very little practice at it over the course of the past four years. In part, that’s because, as a noted germaphobe, he has seldom seemed to want to engage in close-contact politics. And in part, it’s because his fans never expected that of him in the first place—his image was fully formed from the start as a brawler, not a touchy-feely friend.
Trump swooped into the 2016 race as a celebrity, which meant that in the retail-politics-heavy early primary states—where appearances at small gatherings can make up for lack of money or name recognition—he was mostly able to skip the kinds of intimate events where candidates and voters engage in lengthy back-and-forths….
2023 Donald Trump….
Trump’s brief drop-in at the restaurant was an unannounced stop on the way to a speech in a packed theater downtown. After speaking there for over an hour, Trump opened up to questions from the crowd of more than 2,000, from people lined up at microphones or even shouted from their seats.
“I’d just like to ask: Thank you,” one woman said.
“So far I love this question,” Trump deadpanned….
Other President’s……
Presidential candidates often come to be defined in the eyes of many voters on the basis of personality and relatability. George W. Bush famously became the candidate that more undecided voters wanted to have a beer with. Barack Obama was known for his soaring oratory, but also his insularity and aloofness. Hillary Clinton labored to soften her sharp edges and won the New Hampshire primary a day after tearing up in front of a group of women voters at a diner when she allowed that the pressures of the campaign were difficult….