Tartarus Sauce
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« on: May 18, 2020, 04:53:43 PM » |
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« edited: May 18, 2020, 04:58:12 PM by Tartarus Sauce »
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His campaign is decent.
More importantly, the Trump campaign is doing very poorly. For starters, Trump lives for campaigning, his whole presidency has arguably been done in campaign mode the entire time. Unfortunately for him, it's really hard to engage campaign mode while the country is dealing with a pandemic. Almost all of the attention is on the administration's handling of the crisis, which, like everything, has been extremely polarizing. Which is why it's really dumb that they've been expending so much of their material trying to define their opponent during a period of time when people aren't paying attention. It's a big reason why nothing Trump has thrown out at Biden has stuck, and why he seems to be resorting to increasingly desperate moves to shift the conversation, like whatever this whole "Obamagate" thing is supposed to be.
Trump and his surrogates seem way too hopped up on their own hype, believing that the 2016 playbook will work just as well for 2020 and not adjusting to new realities. His campaign is way too focused on throwing red-meat to the base and isn't expanding its strategy beyond that. For all the talk during the primary about how Democrats needed to do more than just remind voters that Trump is bad if they wanted to win, you would think that more people would acknowledge that Trump's campaign needs to learn how to play outside its own sandbox if it wants to succeed. Instead, they seem content on getting high sniffing their own farts.
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