Trump and His Campaign
Are Being Outclassed
Posted By: sagman, 8/22/2020 6:56:23 PM
Joe Biden delivered a solid, if overhyped, speech last night accepting his party’s nomination for the highest office in the land. It effectively put a cap on the Democratic National Convention (DNC) and summed up the Democrats’ case thus: Joe Biden is a good and kind man; Donald Trump is not. Biden’s decency has been hugely exaggerated, as my colleague Ramesh Ponnuru has explained at Bloomberg Opinion, but he does seem a Boy Scout compared with his opponent. (Snip) Trump and his team have played right into Biden’s hands too.
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Trump and His Campaign
Are Being Outclassed 40 replies
Are Being Outclassed 40 replies
Joe Biden delivered a solid, if overhyped, speech last night accepting his party’s nomination for the highest office in the land. It effectively put a cap on the Democratic National Convention (DNC) and summed up the Democrats’ case thus: Joe Biden is a good and kind man; Donald Trump is not. Biden’s decency has been hugely exaggerated, as my colleague Ramesh Ponnuru has explained at Bloomberg Opinion, but he does seem a Boy Scout compared with his opponent. (Snip) Trump and his team have played right into Biden’s hands too.
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What absolute bilge. Did this reporter not note that Biden's speech produced no bounce? Anybody with two active brain cells who watched Biden knows that he said nothing except I'm a nice guy, I'm not Trump, and trust me. That's going to win hearts and minds? What this reporter appears not to understand is that the contest has not started in earnest yet. It will this week. What should make Dems worry is that you can't beat something with nothing.