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Quixote1818

(28,930 posts)
Sun Mar 31, 2019, 09:17 PM Mar 2019

If Trump supporters want to attack Biden on being inappropriate with women they will lose

I am certainly not condoning anything Biden may or maynot have done (I personally think he needs to learn to keep his hands to himself even if he means no harm) but if they want to go down that road, we will obliterate them with stuff like this and the list is a mile long. On Howard Stern he brags about busting in on underage women on purpose and seeing them naked. Why Democrats didn't run with this full throttle in 2016 is beyond me:

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If Trump supporters want to attack Biden on being inappropriate with women they will lose (Original Post) Quixote1818 Mar 2019 OP
Trump supporters don't need to do a thing. mn9driver Mar 2019 #1
No they won't... lame54 Mar 2019 #2
Well, I just got a Trump supporter on FB to take down their post attacking Biden with this meme Quixote1818 Mar 2019 #3
If we have to convince 50% of this country rump is a bad bad person, we as a nation do not Eliot Rosewater Mar 2019 #4
They already know he's a bad person and don't care marylandblue Mar 2019 #7
Democrats did run with that, the problem is Trump's media manipulation techniques. marylandblue Mar 2019 #5
It will not work in the general election customerserviceguy Mar 2019 #6
I'm pretty sure this is about the primary, sfwriter Mar 2019 #8
I don't believe that is correct whopis01 Apr 2019 #9
IOKIYAR 0rganism Apr 2019 #10

lame54

(35,287 posts)
2. No they won't...
Sun Mar 31, 2019, 09:22 PM
Mar 2019

All the candidates need to understand that there are 2 sets of rules
The dems operate in the same world where a single gaffe or mistake can end a presidential run
What applies to Trump does not apply to them

Quixote1818

(28,930 posts)
3. Well, I just got a Trump supporter on FB to take down their post attacking Biden with this meme
Sun Mar 31, 2019, 09:26 PM
Mar 2019

after I posted the video above in response and I got a half dozen likes and they had none. It may not work all of the time but it sure worked this time:

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
4. If we have to convince 50% of this country rump is a bad bad person, we as a nation do not
Sun Mar 31, 2019, 09:30 PM
Mar 2019

deserve to survive.

marylandblue

(12,344 posts)
7. They already know he's a bad person and don't care
Sun Mar 31, 2019, 09:42 PM
Mar 2019

But by constantly attacking he convinced people he's no worse than his opponent. We need to move the debate to policy and away from personal attacks.

marylandblue

(12,344 posts)
5. Democrats did run with that, the problem is Trump's media manipulation techniques.
Sun Mar 31, 2019, 09:32 PM
Mar 2019

He does not back down, apologize or let anything hang around too long. Instead he doubles down, attacks his opponent, or changes the subject. Then the media forgets the first scandal and covers the next one. Nothing penetrates because nothing lasts long enough to do any damage. It's critical to understand how this works.

The only way to avoid this problem is not to take the bait. Don't talk about Trump at all. Deflect any attack, but then pivot to substantive issues.

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
6. It will not work in the general election
Sun Mar 31, 2019, 09:33 PM
Mar 2019

if Biden is our nominee, but the strategy they have is to divide us over it. They saw the speed at which Al Franken was removed from his Senate seat, and they are betting that we will apply the same standards to Biden, with the same result.

The Trumpsters would love to run against Sanders, Warren, or O'Rourke.

whopis01

(3,511 posts)
9. I don't believe that is correct
Mon Apr 1, 2019, 11:44 AM
Apr 2019

The problem is which voters does that strategy work on?

All the people who voted for Trump the last time knew full well how he treats women. They didn't care then and they don't care now.

The problem is that the Republican party (and those leaning Republican) have more people who will say "I don't give a fuck what he did or how he treats people, I'm voting for my guy" than Democratic party does.

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