Biden faces dual challenges from Trump, Warren

[UncleNoel]

By Amie Parnes and Jonathan Easley - 10/05/19 05:13 P
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/464445-biden-faces-dual-challenges-from-trump-warren

Not really a hit piece. It acknowledges Biden's frontrunner status but shows the challenges he faces. Biden supporters need to step up and give Joe a boost. He is our best bet.

Joe Biden is at a crossroads in his quest for the Democratic presidential nomination, as President Trump fights an impeachment inquiry by unloading on the former vice president and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) overtakes him in some polls.

Trump and his allies are placing a big bet that they can tear Biden down by implicating him in a Ukraine scandal that has engulfed the administration and provoked House Democrats to launch an impeachment inquiry.

The Trump campaign is putting millions of dollars behind Biden-Ukraine ads in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina, with the sole intention of damaging him among Democrats in the early-voting states.

Warren’s rise has also become a real threat to Biden, whose front-runner status is being challenged in earnest for the first time this year.

Four months out from the Iowa caucuses, Biden’s team is already talking about looking beyond the Hawkeye State, where the two most recent surveys show Warren with a slight edge. Warren has also caught Biden in recent national polls and surveys of New Hampshire and Nevada.

Third quarter fundraising numbers also have set off alarms in Biden World after he placed fourth among White House hopefuls, bringing in just over $15 million, a $7 million decline from the second quarter.

Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) posted totals in the $25 million range, while South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg brought in $19.2 million.

“This is either the beginning of the end, or the moment where they flip the switch and it all comes together,” said one Democratic fundraiser who supports Biden. “But the signs are not pointing in a good direction right now.”

Trump’s Ukraine scandal has become a major drag on Biden’s campaign, leaving allies split over the best way forward.

There is no evidence to support Trump’s claim that Biden sought to have a Ukrainian prosecutor fired to protect his son’s business interests in the country, although the appearance of a conflict is a problem.

Biden’s role in the impeachment drama ensures the matter will stay in the headlines, playing into Trump’s strategy to keep Biden on the defensive and at the center of melee.

Biden has been hitting back at Trump, most notably during a speech in Reno, Nev., this week in which he accused a “desperate and defensive” president of “smearing” his family.

The former vice president believes the attacks are borne out of Trump’s fears that he’d lose to Biden in the general election.

[beachbumbob]

1. Joe is doing fine, attacks by trump only increases bidens suppprt

Sooner or later warren will be facing real media scrutiny.

[emmaverybo]

2. It is the business of all democrats to stand up against Trump's attack on the 2020 election. This,

his using his office unlawfully to try to take down the front runner, the candidate he most fears, is
but one gambit. Frankly, I see him getting help from many quarters, unexpected some, and not at all promising for our party. One need not be a Biden supporter to speak out. Many rival candidates
have. All should.

[TidalWave46]

3. He is facing more challenges than that.

And at this point seems to be weathering it pretty well.

[Cha]

4. Biden's been on the Offensive!

[Doreen]

5. Big difference between trump and Warren.

Warren will not make Biden into a heathen criminal and try to make his entire family sound like it is worse than the Mafia.

She will not lie to get his numbers down.

Warren has class.
Trump has no class.