Pragmatically Distributed

The 2020 campaign is an entirely new game.

Because Kamala Harris is not a running mate but a President-in-Waiting, Trump can campaign primarily against Harris, except for three issues that are related to Biden: His past support for outsourcing deals with China, Hunter Biden’s relationship with Burisma, and Biden’s senility.

Trump should keep them all in the public’s mind because they all raise Biden’s negatives and because Biden has a more strongly pro-China trade record than Harris (who opposed TPP), and whatever raises his negatives drags down the numbers of the joint Kamala-Biden ticket.

Aside from those three issues, Trump can essentially ignore Harris.

For Harris, Trump has no shortage of material.

Here are the major lines of attack Trump should pursue against the new Kamala-Biden ticket:

Biden-Harris left our medical supply chain security to the mercy of China – Beijing Biden (and Obama) for many years supported trade with China that created a medical supply chain dependency on China while Harris opposed TPP.  This Biden-endorsed dependency has hampered our ability to respond to coronavirus because of China.  Focus on Biden’s pro-China policies primarily to hurt Harris on trade, medical supply chain security, and their joint ability to react to coronavirus given their pro-China sentiments.

The endorsement of the Green New Deal by Harris will harm moving strategic American supply chains from China back to the United States – The Green New Deal Harris endorsed is a purer version than the one Biden endorsed. Attack Harris for endorsing the purest version of it and link the issue to raising the cost of regulations on American manufacturers to benefit Green Corporations and Chinese industrial policy.

Continue reading “Dealing With The Kamala-Biden Ticket”

Biden chose Kamala Harris because he wanted a running mate with no hope of outperforming him in the debates.

Continue reading “Biden’s Choice of an Indian Hillary Clinton for President-in-Waiting Courts Disaster for the Democrats”

Whenever (if ever?) Biden announces his running mate, he will have to speak in public.

But if he is too senile to appear for the customary announcement (the most likely reason the choice is being held back since he hasn’t spoken publicly since late July) then his team can’t schedule the press conference.

This would also explain why coinciding ideas are being floated by Democrats that Biden should cancel all debates with Trump.  Their cover story is that Trump is so disreputable a figure that Biden shouldn’t even honor his presence by being in the same room as the President.

But their actual reason is that Biden’s mental powers have deteriorated to a point where he can’t even share the stage with his running mate, let alone debate Trump.

To take advantage of this, Trump should claim that team Biden called his campaign and let them officially know Biden will not attend any debates due to dementia.

This will put the burden to act on the side of the Biden campaign.

Team Biden will have to either confirm Biden cannot attend (which will cause great concern to the electorate, media panic, and crater Biden’s poll numbers) or the Democrats will deny Trump’s charge as a lie and preemptively kill off any further Democratic trial balloons about skipping the debates.

If they lock themselves into a new commitment to debate, Biden will then have to appear at the debates, or, make Biden’s campaign look like fools if Biden’s health won’t permit him to appear in public, or, potentially, continue as the nominee.

Metternich, Volume IV page 54

March 23, 1823 . — Now, to recognise a Government one must know first of all know what it is; and to enter into negotiations with it one must have recognised it. It is, therefore, necessary that we should know first of all what the Government will be.

 

The same, hidden, Progressive electoral weakness that Trump can use to drive a wedge between blue collar, white, Rust Belt Democrats and green collar, white, middle class Progressive Greens is exactly the same electoral vulnerability that can drive a wedge between the main beneficiaries of the protest movements (white, middle class Progressives) away from the lower class minorities it claims to represent, but who will end up with crumbs as rewards relative to the gigantic windfall of power and tax money to be looted by white Progressives.

Continue reading “Hamiltonian Class Warfare on The White Progressive Career Climber Movement”

Based on the math of coronavirus data (math being a topic Progressives know nothing about unless it is time for them to count tax revenues) we now know that there should be two, different, health strategies to handle the virus  –

1. 1.  An extreme lockdown policy for certain groups of Americans.
   2.  A moderate lockdown policy for certain groups of Americans.

Continue reading “Putting the Lockdown Fanatics into Quarantine”

Since the coronavirus will probably continue to limit how large political rallies can be throughout the fall campaign, Trump will need to utilize his impressive election warchest to purchase ad buys that aggressively attack Biden earlier than he did against Hillary.  In 2016 Trump had so much media attention that he could campaign effectively, often getting his message out at rallies, with few ads until the last two months of the campaign.

But since any rallies will be smaller, Trump should compensate for their diminished effectiveness with negative ads against Biden over the summer and continuing all the way to election day, instead of waiting until Fall to launch the airwar like he did against Hillary.

From October 16, 2016 –

When Trump counter attacks, he should not focus on policy but go personal instead. Interestingly, he is preferred by the electorate on a number of issues. But on policy he has maxed out his advantage. The public has already absorbed the policy differences between Trump and Clinton, and there is no further point of reminding the electorate of what they already know.

What they have not thought about are her personal negatives; and it is her personal ratings where the most return on investment for Trump rests.

If Trump attacks Hillary with ads (and he will need to include the scandals in the ad mix, as Republicans usually must do, to get around the media blackout) about her enabling of her husband’s history of sexual assault, Bill Clinton’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein, email and financial scandals, and her role in Benghazi, and any other scandal Trump may have information about, I would expect the polls to once again close between them just as they did during his September offensive which moved him from behind to ahead.

 

If Biden wants to lose the Rust Belt then the $2 trillion, manufacturing killing, Green Leap Backwards he released will get the job done.

At a time when America needs to bring manufacturing capacity back from China by cutting business expenses for American industry, Beijing Biden’s version of Alexandria Cortez’s Green “New Deal” will raise energy costs by hundreds of billions for American manufacturers in the Rust Belt.

The beneficiaries of crushing the Rust Belt working class with higher expenses are Green Corporatist 1%ers like Al Gore (whose Green wealth makes him more like a Green 0.0001%er) and Chinese industrial planners whose manufacturers will, if Biden has his way, become more competitive against US manufacturers because China (the number one source of carbon emissions in the world) will never weigh down its own industry with a Chinese “Green Leap Backwards” like their lobbyist friend, Beijing Biden, will.

Expanding on yesterday’s theme, Trump should just blame everything that went wrong during the Obama Administration – from the weak Obama era economy to ISIS – as entirely, or almost entirely, the fault of Biden’s declining mental capacities.

Something along the lines of “Obama would have been a much better President if he hadn’t put Biden in charge of important policies like x, y, z, etc, etc”.

Since Biden is arguing today that he would handle coronavirus more decisively than Trump, Trump should blame Biden’s senility for America’s 2014 ebola cases.

And if Biden tries to evade by claiming that as Vice President he wasn’t responsible for ebola policy?

In that case to hell with it; Trump should simply ignore his denials and keep blaming Biden for the outbreak anyway!

Trump has wisely been focusing on Biden’s advanced senility to raise doubts in the mind of the electorate as to whether Biden is mentally competent to serve as President.

This gambit is worthwhile.

But it would be even more effective if Trump linked Biden’s senility to concrete examples of Biden’s failure of leadership.

Fortunately, the Obama era has countless political and legal scandals that can be pinned on Biden’s slide into mental decline while Vice President.

Continue reading “To Enhance Trump’s “Biden is Senile” Case Link Biden’s Senility to Obama Era Scandals”

The Biden campaign has locked down Hunter Biden from the glare of the public spotlight, and for good reasons –

Hunter Biden spent several thousand dollars at a Manhattan strip club during a pair of visits — including one that sent a staffer scrambling to buy a sex toy so strippers could use it on him, sources told The Post on Wednesday.

It’s time for Trump to overrule Junkie Biden’s stay at home directives and make the cash deals Joe negotiated for Hunter (not to mention highlighting what, specifically, Hunter purchased with dad’s money) a center piece of the Trump campaign for much of the summer.

What Joe politically arranged over the decades to bailout his damned fool son will play to Trump’s advantage. Emphasizing Biden’s dirty dealmaking over the summer is akin to what Lee Atwater did to the negatives of Michael Dukakis in the summer of 1988.

Then, when fall rolls around, Trump’s policy attacks against Biden on issues such as outsourcing manufacturing to China will have greater effect than they would absent Trump making Hunter de facto running mate for Joe because the electorate is more likely to believe attacks against a candidate with high personal negatives than one with lower personal negatives.

From October 16, 2016 –

When Trump counter attacks, he should not focus on policy but go personal instead.  Interestingly, he is preferred by the electorate on a number of issues.  But on policy he has maxed out his advantage.  The public has already absorbed the policy differences  between Trump and Clinton, and there is no further point of reminding the electorate of what they already know.

What they have not thought about are her personal negatives; and it is her personal ratings where the most return on investment for Trump rests.

If Trump attacks Hillary with ads (and he will need to include the scandals in the ad mix, as Republicans usually must do, to get around the media blackout) about her enabling of her husband’s history of sexual assault, Bill Clinton’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein, email and financial scandals, and her role in Benghazi, and any other scandal Trump may have information about, I would expect the polls to once again close between them just as they did during his September offensive which moved him from behind to ahead.

With Biden, Trump has more room to erode Biden’s superficial lead than he did with Hillary because neither Biden’s policy or personal characteristics have been highlighted.  But when they are driven home by Trump, policy attacks will be more effective at moving poll numbers if Biden’s personal negatives are kicked upwards before Trump focuses on policy – say, by going 70% personal and 30% policy over the summer, and then 70% policy and 30% personal in fall (or something more or less around those ratios).