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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf 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:
mn9driver
(4,425 posts)We are doing the job for them.
lame54
(35,287 posts)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)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)deserve to survive.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)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)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)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.
sfwriter
(3,032 posts)not the general.
whopis01
(3,511 posts)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.
0rganism
(23,944 posts)it's easy to forget about this but it applies broadly