Trump's campaign has shifted almost entirely to rehabilitating Trump's handling of the C-19 crisis

[Demovictory9]

Team Trump is rushing to rewrite the early narrative about the president’s response to coronavirus.

Faced with endless video clips of Donald Trump downplaying the escalating outbreak, Trump aides and allies are working furiously to instead highlight the president’s recent actions and comments.

Their effort comprises three tactics: Blanket supporters with detailed timelines of every action the Trump administration took. Amplify praise of those actions. And forcefully push back against anyone who criticizes those actions.


Just over seven months from the November election, Trump’s aides and allies realize the president’s campaign for a second term has been completely transformed in a matter of weeks. It will now come down to his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and his response to a devastated economy, according to seven people familiar with the situation, including four who speak directly with the president.

“The president and his performance is the campaign. It’s the only thing that matters,” said Scott Jennings, who worked for President George W. Bush and is close to the Trump White House. “There is nothing to do if you are the sitting president of the United States but to get it right. If you get it right, what better argument for reelection than this unprecedented crisis?”

The Trump campaign had wanted to focus on a long list of other issues as the president launched a general election race against Democrat Joe Biden: the president’s impeachment acquittal, Biden’s acuity and overseas actions by Biden’s son Hunter.

Instead, it has shifted almost entirely to rehabilitating Trump’s handling of the coronavirus crisis.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/24/trump-coronavirus-campaign-reelection-145007

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. this takes the lipstick on a pig schtick to a whole new level

how 1984 of them all.

[DarthDem]

2. I like this takeaway

"Michael Caputo, who served as a campaign adviser in 2016, said he worries Biden can blame Trump for his response to coronavirus while having to take no responsibility himself because he’s not in office. “They can criticize him for every move he makes,” he said of Biden’s team."

Indeed.

[sop]

4. That's how Trump got elected.

Trump campaigned on draining the swamp while promising he alone could fix it.

[DarthDem]

5. Difference is

That he had to paint Hillary, a non-incumbent, as part of the Washington "swamp." Now he embodies it. His base won't care about anything but seeing him reelected, but he's going to need more than that to win, and I don't think his pose of running as "the outsider" who can "fix" everything as you put it is going to resonate too well with independents and undecideds this time around.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Good luck dumbshits

[colsohlibgal]

6. The Video Will Always Be There

He can convince some of his brainless fans that he is not culpable but that’s it. The Tape doesn’t lie.

Now he’s blaming States for his total incompetence.

Tens of Millions will vote for this mentally sick liar and sociopath.

Even if Biden beats him, we retake the Senate, we hold the House......how do we bring many of these mentally changed folks back to reality?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. One problem at a time......

[dalton99a]

7. Democrats can't let him control the narrative.

[aka-chmeee]

9. Yesterday in mail came a "card" apparently to "occupant"

labeled "Slow the Spread" and "President Trump's Coronavirus Guidelines for America", Ostensibly from The White House, CDC, and Coronavirus.gov. Surprisingly, the advice on the back seemed to actually come from intelligent, reasonable sources making sensible suggestions; not chloroquine and "Open for business by Easter as we have come to expect from SFB Trump. This leads me to conclude that the prominent paean to Trump provided the requisite butt kissing to allow the document to be sent out at all.