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If you were wondering whether he has a plan? He doesn& #39;t have a plan. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1311297684540620801">https://twitter.com/realDonal...
A centerpiece of the Trump campaign strategy for months has been to paint Biden as a puppet of the radical left. And here& #39;s Trump tweeting that you shouldn& #39;t worry about that, because Biden doesn& #39;t like leftists and is willing to stand up to them on the public stage.
Who& #39;s the voter that Trump wins over by saying that Biden disrespected Bernie last night? What& #39;s the demographic that helps him with? What& #39;s the larger narrative it helps to build? There is none. It& #39;s incoherent. It makes no sense on any level. It& #39;s just playground bullshit.
And yes, Trump would love it if left-wing voters stayed home. But that& #39;s one of those things that, if you& #39;re on Trump& #39;s team, you can hope happens, and maybe surreptitiously nudge toward happening, but can& #39;t summon into happening by making the pitch out loud.
Because look what happens when the Trump folks try to make an overt "Biden hates the left" pitch: Folks like AOC pop up to smack them down. https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1311133187251359744">https://twitter.com/AOC/statu...
And suddenly it& #39;s Biden and AOC on one side, and Trump and Kellyanne Conway on the other. And AOC isn& #39;t just defending Biden, she& #39;s acknowledging their policy differences and making the strategic case for voting for him anyway.
And if leftish voters take anything away from the whole mishegas, it& #39;s that Trump wants them to stay home, but AOC wants them to vote—and to keep the pressure on Biden after he wins. And that isn& #39;t just a good dynamic for Biden, it& #39;s a mobilizing, energizing dynamic.
The only group who will respond favorably to tweets like Trump& #39;s is people who already love him and like to watch him talk shit.
But when you got 46% the last time around and are polling well below that this time, "get the people who already love me to love me harder" isn& #39;t exactly a genius final-stretch strategy.
