Joe Biden Empathy offensive

In his last hearing of the American healer in chief, Vice President Joe Biden gave a speech on Tuesday on the fight against systemic racism to be what he said was crucial for a “struggle for the soul of the nation” election year . “The country is crying for leadership,” said Biden, on a podium in Philadelphia City Hall to speak, flanked by American flags. “The leadership that can unite the leadership that brings us together, leadership can recognize the pain and deep sorrow of the community who had a knee on his neck for a long time.” The speech was the last empathize Biden offensive series of public statements and appearances that mention the pain in the heart of nationwide protests while calling for unity to combat systemic racism. The Biden’s strategy is his presidential campaign to make a contrast between the characters and empathy on his part and antagonism and raving about Trump. In the process, Biden hopes a model of leadership in mutual suffering and compassion rooted arguments to show that his political career has inspired. How many times did his decades in public life, Biden spoke Tuesday about personal pain and grief of historical, this time to protest the continuing scourge of racial injustice within communities. “We are a nation in pain, but we need our pain does not destroy leave us,” he said. “We are a nation made you angry, but we can not afford to consume our anger. We are a nation that has been exhausted, but we will not allow our weariness to defeat us.” These issues serve his greater purpose, a character unlike the president of the design response. Trump tweeted that the protesters were “thugs” and promised that “if the looting begins shooting starts,” the weekend had threatened the protesters outside the White House with the “vicious dog” and output “threat of weapons “and urged the nation’s governors to” dominate “the demonstrators, which he called” terrorists. ” Monday ‘, Trump gave a speech in the Rose Garden the use of military force against the protests threaten and promised “that ends now.” Biden, used in contrast to illustrate the speech Tuesday as an opportunity, a different vision of leadership. “I regard the presidency as a great work, and no one will get it right every time, and I will not,” he said in Philadelphia. “But I promise you that I do not traffic in fear and division, I am not a fan of hatred flames, I will try to heal racial wounds that have plagued our country until they do that, to use political purposes.” The campaign Trump responded with violence on Tuesday accused Biden of using “the policy of segregation when they made clear their needs.” “Joe Biden campaign that complies with the rebels, people, companies in minority communities and causes chaos burn, to arrest a bail after donating, “he said the campaign Trump senior Advisor Katrina Pierson in a statement. “He has obviously made the crass political calculation that the unrest in America is a plus for his candidacy.” But the Philadelphia speech was just last event Biden of his things Trump does not attempt or not to relieve the pain and Unite country. On Sunday he attended Biden with protesters in Wilmington, wearing a mask when he asked for selfies with the protesters. Monday ‘, he attended a local black church to pray and listen to church leaders, then he took a knee for a photo. Later that day, he arranged to discuss police brutality a roundtable with mayors solutions. The speech also provided an elaboration of Biden’s oft-repeated slogan that this race is a “struggle for the soul of the nation”. In Philadelphia, he articulated that an analysis of America’s struggle with systemic racism borrowed an idea often repeated by Barack Obama that the fight is worth, which, although it is never fully won. “I wish I could say that the hatred with Donald Trump began and end with him. It did not, and will not do,” said Biden. “American history is not a fairy tale with a happy ending guaranteed. The battle for the soul of this nation has a constant pressure and train for more than 240 years. A power struggle between the American ideal that all are equal and hard created reality that racism has torn a long time. “” the honest truth is that both elements are part of the American character, “he continued. “At our best, the ideal American wins. But it is never a router, it is always a struggle, and the struggle is never completely won. But we can not ignore the truth that we are our best when we open our hearts, rather than shake their fists “the response to nationwide protests over the killing of Floyd have crystallized the two candidates approach the Presidency. For Biden, it is a time to mourn and heal, for Trump, it is a time division and talk about stress, law and order. ‘It is’ a kind of mental X-ray of what the two men are like’, said Stuart Stevens, a GOP strategists that the Romney campaign of 2012 was running and now supports Biden. “It ‘s impossible, another president in the White House and the chirping angrily to imagine,” he said. “Even Nixon walked and talked with the protesters,” referring to the famous Nixon visit with hippies in front of the Lincoln Memorial in protest. The Biden team is clearly leans in contrast. “Whether it is on physical or virtual election campaign, the unmatched experience of Joe Biden, the thought-leadership and deep empathy are looking for the qualities that voters in a president and are completely absent from the reckless behavior Donald Trump and tweets broken, “says the spokesperson Biden Matt Hill,” as the nation mourns the loss of lives and livelihoods of Corona and dealing with racial injustice that George Floyd, vice President Biden has killed Americans has provided what you are looking for for the heads-one for listening to their concerns, provide comfort to families, leading by example and showing them how to come together in times of crisis. “Biden has faced in the last week as a prelude to the American people, showing his vision of how a president should behave as a national crisis. Part of it draws on his painful past: after his wife and daughter in a car accident in 1972 and his son Beau with cancer in 2015 to lose, did Biden has developed an unusual fluidity with the pain, and a reflection of public actions pain that has pushed him his political career. “My losses are not the same as many felt the loss, but I know how it feels when you think you can not go on. I know what it means that black hole in his chest,” he said in Philadelphia. “But I also know that the best way is to bear the loss and pain that anger and fear to turn in the way, and get to know Americans, that is our goal as a nation.” Strategists in both parties say the simmering crisis gripping the country is more Trump rope not feel embarrassed and allows more powerful Biden’s political muscle. “Is there anyone defend Trump doing now?” He said Tim Miller, one Republican strategist who notices for Jeb Bush and now conservatives Biden for voting advice. “I do not even feel the Republicans on the Hill talking about how he did a good job.” Floyd The protests were only the last opportunity for Biden to go on offensive empathy: the pandemic Crown had already given enough room for discussing the point. Consider the difference when Americans Covid-19 deaths have reached 100,000 this week. On the day of the New York Times Golf playing the names of 1,000 Americans who died in the headlines Trump races. On Wednesday, when the death toll has exceeded 100,000, Trump tweeted condolences to look beyond what he described as “very sad milestone.” Biden, for his TV home studio, was to address the 2 minute video highlighting the enormity of human loss. “There are moments in our history as bleak as heartbreaking that have fixed forever in each of our hearts. A common pain,” said Biden, looking into the camera and talk directly to the families of the dead. “I think I know what you’re feeling,” he said. “It feels like we are sucked into a black hole at the center of the chest. It is overwhelming. My heart is broken, and there is nothing more than an empty feeling right now.” The empathy gap can help explain how Biden visiting a permanent lead in the polls, without a single swing state or shaking the hand of an individual voter has built over the past three months, it has been isolated mainly because of COVID-19 at his home. Biden Trump leads of 10 points after a / ABC News poll Washington Post on May 31 and has an edge in a half-dozen key swing states, an advantage that has remained remarkably stable over the past few months. A recent survey by Quinnipiac found Biden Trump leading 10 points with seniors and 11 points with white women, both groups Trump at hand won in 2016. Some observers say that lead is less the result of uneven offensive empathy Biden’s behavior Trump in the past months. Biden’s best move, they say, only the president can stumble on his own words. “When the enemy to kill yourself, just get off the road,” said veteran Democratic strategist David Axelrod, citing an old axiom campaign. “Donald Trump can not be the center do all the time,” he says, adding that all errors Biden tiny eyes against it. “If the light hair on fire every day, it’s hard to say, yes, but look at this guy.” “And the political impact protests could have in November. While some studies show that protests self-proclaimed violent “law-and-order” conservatives like to promote Trump hit other data show that non-white voters mobilized could be the key to a democratic victory in November. “you can call their protests, but it could also call rally not white turnout, “says Stevens.” It ‘hard to imagine anything that will motivate more, is going to be. “