'Biden To Resume In-Person Campaigning As Race With Trump Kicks Into Gear': Michigan, WaPo
'Biden to resume in-person campaigning as race with Trump kicks into gear.' Washington Post, Aug. 29, 2020. By Philip Rucker, Annie Linskey, 3:29 PM EDT. - Ed:
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will resume in-person campaigning across the country in coming days amid the still-raging coronavirus pandemic, an answer to allies imploring him to meet voters where they are and a sign that his race with President Trump is tightening as the general election contest begins in earnest.
Coming out of back-to-back national conventions that both parties considered successful, Trump aides said the president is determined to exploit the racial unrest in Kenosha, Wis., and other places where Black Lives Matter protesters have been active to amplify his “law and order” message. Trump aims to cast Biden and running mate Kamala D. Harris as agents of far-left radicals in a bid to scare suburban White women and other key voters back into the Republican fold.
Biden, meanwhile, is trying to carry his summer polling lead into the fall by giving his campaign a fresh jolt of energy, making plans to leave the Mid-Atlantic region next month for the first sustained period since the pandemic forced an end to traditional campaigning in March. The RNC Convention’s week-long effort to rebrand Trump as compassionate toward women, minorities and immigrants; to portray the economy as booming and the virus as dissipating; and to stoke fears of socialism and anarchy- despite the fire hose of falsehoods- served as a wake-up call for some top Democrats.
They said Biden, a former vice president, needs to be more proactive as a campaigner and aggressive in promoting his economic agenda to avoid being typecast.
“We really just need to hammer on the economics & the complete failure to manage covid,” said Rep. Andy Levin (D-Mich.). “But we do need him here. We need him to tell that story. And I’m confident that it will happen.” Levin spoke Thursday with a top Biden staffer about plans for a visit by Biden to Macomb Co., a perennial swing jurisdiction in suburban Detroit that was critical to Trump’s 2016 victory. Harris, Ca. senator said Friday evening, “Michigan is the main event in this fight. We saw it slip to Donald Trump in 2016, and we’re not going to let that happen again. Even if we see polls looking good.”...
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~ And Biden, go to Kenosha, Wisc.
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden & vice-presidential nominee Kamala D. Harris, flanked by their spouses, Jill Biden & Doug Emhoff, rally supporters outside the Chase Center in Wilmington, Del., Aug. 20, the final night of the Democratic National Convention. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post)
