Why 2020 could be another false choice equivalence

Why 2020 could be another false choice equivalence

Welcome to another false equivalence choice. Congratulations, I will hate it here. President Donald Trump has an uncanny ability, their weaknesses to project his opponent: he is rubber, you’re glue, what did you tell rebounds and adheres to you. It is a strategy that has worked very well against Hillary Clinton. He nicknamed her “Crooked Hillary” was during his campaign for relations with Russia under federal investigation. He has rekindled the debate over sexual misconduct of her husband after several women came forward to accuse Trump rape, which he denies. He accused Clinton of feed, birther ‘conspiracy theory about Barack Obama. As a reminder, it was Trump, who did this. This week, Donald Trump Jr. wrote an editorial, the argument suggests that “Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton rebuilt in 2020,” that the campaign plans to repeat the 2016 playbook. Trump is already looking to be the rubber in the campaign 2020. The question is whether Biden will be the glue. Some Republicans believe Trump work strategy because they say Biden has already prone to it. Where years after Democrats argued that Trump is a sex offender than grateful to foreign powers and mentally unfit for the presidency, the Trump campaign is gearing up to make Biden in exactly the same arguments on Joe. “While Biden, a candidate of consensus, the same arguments that can be made about Trump, style can be turned around,” said Republican strategist Tyler Brown. This can be used as working “as long as they tell a splitter, here everyone has heard this case. ” The Biden’s defenders reject the idea that there are fragments of truth are to begin, and emphasize that many of the attacks on Trump Biden it was removed from the verification of facts. It is said that the tactic Trump’s political weakness and the fact reflect that Biden is gaining ground in some key states battlefield of Trump. And the campaign Biden is on alert for the false equivalence in the media, helped the Democrats say attacks against Trump stick Clinton in 2016. This is not the Republicans do care. “Whether it’s a false equivalency is by its nature kind of questionable,” says Brown. “The way that people consume information, it is a kind of advantage nullifying if it is wrong or not. It is not so much a matter of values ​​and more a question of volume.” The first signs began last year , claimed by Trump without evidence, provided that Biden had benefited from his son Hunter role of one of the Ukrainian gas company, also appeared as Trump Trump children of their own interests to promote business from Aberdeen to Jakarta anywhere in India. Biden says spokesman Mike Gwin “He literally had accused of following this false equivalence and try to peddle these smear against Biden.” This is not Trumps Rubber vs terror tactics glue. Democrats have long accused Trump of foreign opponents too close (see :. His intimate relationship with Putin, his friendship with Kim Jong-un, his warm embrace of dictators from Saudi Arabia to Turkey) Now Trump Biden has accused China seeding, tweeting, Biden that China’s “dream candidate” and the release of a misleading indicator raises to protect “the feelings of China.” Fact-Checker exposed Trump statement that Biden was soft on China. Democrats have brought outrage over the dozens of sexual assault charges against President Trump for years expressed that denies the president. Now the campaign manager Trump and magician of the digital Parscale Brad tweeted a meme has accused the Democrats to remain silent after the former member of the Senate Tara staff accused Reade Biden sexual violence, which is part of an ongoing effort by supporting the hypocrisy in #MeToo movement. The Biden campaign Reade vehemently denies the allegations and said the meeting described “absolutely was not the case.” Democrats have criticized Trump misleading and bizarre press conferences during the crown pandemic. Now Trump campaign is designed to start a drumbeat of ads derailment vulnerable and spacious 77-year-old Biden as senile and paint mentally unfit. “People regret the day that they found Donald Trump mental health in question, or the ability to speak clearly, or you know that they need for the job,” a time White House official said. “You will regret that day.” These are complicated maneuvers not exactly campaign. Trump has qualified for the secular political trick to blow enough smoke to his opponent, to accept voters that there is a fire, even if it is consumed in its focus. One Republican strategist has called “the last whataboutism.” It also reflects the political power that the best defense is a good offense. “There is a tendency of most people in politics when they take fire and bunkers to freeze,” said Brad Todd, the Republican strategist and author of the book The Great Revolt. “President Trump understands that when the fire through the fire.” For the Democrats, it is exhausting and demoralizing. This is the point. By defining the race as a “lesser evil ‘, they try to hurt participation,” Jen Palmieri, director says former Clinton communications. “It ‘a very corrosive strategy, but it has an impact on people.” Looking for a defense, look for some Democrats already on the role of the media. Many of the 2016 Clinton campaign veterans believe that Clinton Trump strengthened reporting in the media of Trump race attacks on supply Clinton campaign narrative that candidates were defective equivalently and that the choice between war “two evils.” “Sachlichkeit’zu: if I have a bad story Trump had to do a bad story about Clinton,” said Palmieri. Strategists say a similar model in 2020 created “Trump is up there spewing lies and Joe Biden has a slip and countryside Trump weaponizes and then the media says, ‘Oh, messed Biden that up’,” says Ian Sams, a spokesman for Clinton in 2016 and Kamala Harris in 2020 Biden’s advisers say that may be less vulnerable than Clinton in the fog of false equivalence was coming his way. Biden is known quantity while maintaining high favorability rating after leaving the vice. Clinton had been tarred with the right vitriol for decades, which softened the ground against them for many of the attacks. “It ‘cemented in the minds skeptical voters and subliminal aversion to them that Joe Biden is not simply,” says Sams. “The Trump attacks to begin with voters in a way that allowed I do not think they are with Biden.” Democrats also argue that much of the skepticism with Clinton in 2016 had to do sex. Biden may benefit from a leniency program that rarely women candidates will be offered. “The failure much more enthusiastic male audience than women, the failure to forgive,” said Sams. Finally, any strategy works best when used for the first time. The fact that this textbook was first performed, may be less effective. “There are antibodies in the system now because people hear Trump is all the time to say,” said Palmieri. “There are many reasons to believe that Biden is going to be easier to navigate us. It does not do much better than what we got to do.” But the most important thing answer whether Trump attacks can stick with President Biden nothing against rubber glue tactics. Voters base their decisions make in 2020 for four years of a Trump presidency. While Trump hoped that a referendum on the economic benefits and the lack of perception would mean the same, it is now more likely that a pandemic, mass unemployment, impeachment and focus chaos almost constant from the White House. And it is hard to see how Trump Biden could be accused of any of this. -With reporting by Tessa Berenson / Washington