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2020-03-27 Home Front: Politix
Coronavirus is killing the Biden campaign — and making him look like a fool
[NYPOST] After a shocking turnaround in his campaign ‐ he was nearly left for dead after his crushing defeat in New Hampshire, only to become the presumptive nominee after Super Tuesday ‐ Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant...
was ready to pivot to a general election campaign against President Trump.

But then the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
hit the United States, and the ex-veep’s campaign has struggled mightily to deal with the political fallout.

Trump has dominated the news cycles over the last three weeks, and his administration has been a whirling dervish of activity. He and his team offer daily reports about N95 masks secured, ventilators procured, production capacities increased, negotiations with Democrats in the Senate for an economic rescue package and more.

The public likes what it sees. A Gallup poll out this week showed that 60 percent of Americans approve of the job he is doing handling the outbreak.

The crisis has improved his overall numbers, too, in keeping with a history of calamities boosting polling for commanders-in-chief. For the first time since the start of his administration, the RealClearPolitics average of Trump’s job disapproval is less than 50 percent. Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard...
his approval rating is at 47 percent, again close to an all-time high.

Democrats in Congress, meanwhile, slow-walked the economic rescue discussions this week, making them seem petty and small-minded in comparison.

Trump, in other words, has utterly eclipsed his would-be rival. And when Biden has been heard from, he has looked frankly pathetic. After disappearing for more than a week after his primary victories in Missouri, Michigan and Washington, Biden emerged this week for a series of speeches and interviews from his Wilmington, Del., home.

The purpose was obvious­ ‐ his campaign desperately needs to muscle its way back into the news cycle. But that turned out to be easier said than done.

Posted by Fred 2020-03-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 No, he's doing that on his own.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-03-27 00:59||   2020-03-27 00:59|| Front Page Top

#2 It is killing him too, he has to get out and mix and mingle to win but at his age if that causes him to get the virus, his age range survival percentages are very low.
Posted by Dr. Wheat Faartz007 2020-03-27 02:24||   2020-03-27 02:24|| Front Page Top

#3 "look like"?
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-03-27 08:02||   2020-03-27 08:02|| Front Page Top

#4 ^^ My exact response
Posted by DarthVader 2020-03-27 09:13||   2020-03-27 09:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Oh bull. He's been out of it since before Iowa.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-03-27 10:03||   2020-03-27 10:03|| Front Page Top

#6 The campaign was DOA before the coronavirus.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-03-27 12:59||   2020-03-27 12:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Biden is little more than a place holder. The Hildebeest will rise from the ashes.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-27 13:19||   2020-03-27 13:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Biden looked pretty well to me in his debate vs Sanders and the voters seemed to agree in the subsequent primary States.

Since then, not.
Posted by lord garth 2020-03-27 14:30||   2020-03-27 14:30|| Front Page Top

#9 Biden looked pretty well to me in his debate vs Sanders

As long as his aides keep coming up with gallons of 'virgin blood' for transfusions, he'll do fine.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-03-27 17:26||   2020-03-27 17:26|| Front Page Top

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