I can’t imagine how the Trump campaign answers this except by trying to change the subject.
Pointing out that Biden makes verbal slip-ups all the time won’t help, since the numbers are wholly different orders of magnitude. Even Biden’s famous biographical plagiarism of Neil Kinnock was a long time ago. Plus generally whoever strikes first on a issue owns it. Karl Rove taught us that.
Update: This one is good too!
I’m old enough to remember how Michael Dukakis got pilloried for this photo op he staged of him riding around in a tank:
There were a lot of reasons for it: Dukakis looked uncomfortable; the public became convinced that he was being a fake — acting against type, doing something he didn’t really believe in — and there was, I always suspected, a tinge of resemblance to the late Alfred E. Newman.
I think there’s a good chance, assuming we’re not under occupation at the time, that we’ll look back at this week’s Trump photo op in the same way. I’m talking about the one where, after having police clear out lawful protestors from across the White House, in which he holds aloft some random Bible (Q: “Is that your Bible?” A: “It’s a Bible”) while looking — like Dukakis did — as the answer to What Does Not Belong in This Picture?
Acting against type, doing something he doesn’t really believe in. Not a good look, it turns out.
This is brilliant, but is it too subtle?
To be honest, when I clicked on it I wasn’t paying full attention, and at first I thought it was a promo for Leonard DeCaprio’s 3-parter on Ulysses S Grant, which is currently running on the History Channel.
Wasn’t till the end, when they named the sponsor, that it hit me.
Paid for by the Lindsey Must Go PAC.
Update: If the video above isn’t working for you try this link instead.
“Biden Campaign Considering Using The Internet To Attract Voters”
Naturally, it’s from The Onion.
Actually, I got a genuine email from the Biden campaign today. It was awful. It invited me to a virtual fundraiser with Pete Buttigieg. How the Biden people ever thought that was the way to win my vote, or my dollar, I can’t imagine.
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