Sasha makes a good point: Trump thought he'd be running against Sanders or Warren

[StarfishSaver]

All of his talking points and campaign rhetoric seem to be geared toward an opponent much more like Sanders or Warren. He seems to have no idea how to run against Biden. And, funny thing, it also seems that no one on his campaign team has been able to move him off of this spot.

Link to tweet

[Hortensis]

1. Only if he believed Repub/Russian propaganda. Of course,

he's an idiot dancing on broken strings and that's entirely possible.

[empedocles]

2. trump will switch his talking points to JB's VP nominee

[trumpers will all say 'Dems are trying to make that awful VP nominee your next President in 2024, or sooner, !'].

[getagrip_already]

3. he loves to make his enemies caricatures to laugh at or be afraid of....

He would have taken bernie apart like the presents at his birthday party. But joe isn't that easy to attack in that way.

We knew that. Which is why we wanted joe (even though I am much closer to warren politically). Bernie would have been a disaster.

It's much better that he is afraid of his opponent than able to laugh at them and make outrageous but vaguely on-point attacks.

It's driving him and his campaign angry. It's like they are shadow boxing. They just can't land a punch the media will latch onto. The questions keep coming back to trump, the pandemic response, the economy response, his lack of response to russia... Never about biden. Even fox can't get a handle on its attacks. It is feebly trying to paint joe as senile, but every time joe speaks or is interviewed that falls away.

Boo-Hoo. Keep up the god talk, and the gun talk, and the mail in vote talk... nobody is listening - not even your base.

[JHB]

4. Painting Democrats, any Democrats, as wild-eyed ultra-leftists has been GOP SOP...

...for at least 30 years.

Bill and Hillary Clinton as "countercultural McGoverniks", anyone?

[mcar]

5. That sounds right

They only had one game plan - to run against the socialist!!11 Trying to tag Biden with that label is bound to fail.

But, as usual in Trumpworld, they are incapable of adapting or strategizing.

[SheltieLover]

6. He/They do not undersrand intwgrity!

So cannot effectively campaign!

Reminds me of a scene in "Crazy People" where Dudley Moore us an ad exec who realizes he is lying for a living & check into a psych resort-type hospital.

In his absence, the boss is trying to get his remaining staff to say 1 "true" thing about the product.

Silence until... lol no spoiler. One of my fav movies. 😊

[still_one]

7. he also said hydroxychloroquine and drinking disinfectant cured the virus

[blm]

8. Horseshit, Sasha. GOP has been running those same talking points for 4decades,

no matter who the Dem nominee is.

Your tweet is nonsubstantive and doesn’t deserve a retweet.

[BComplex]

11. I totally agree. That right wing bs has no place here.

Liz and Bernie are doing everything they can to help the democrats beat ALL the republicans, not just the cheeto in chief, but all the down line democrats, as well.

[StarfishSaver]

14. How is my OP "right wing BS"?

[blm]

16. Not your OP, Star. It's that GOP has attacked every Dem candidate as

a scary, left-wing socialist, so the tweet’s point is ridiculous and, especially, unnecessary at a time when we need to unite the party, not divide it further.

[Act_of_Reparation]

9. Correction: Trump didn't think he'd be running against COVID.

I can scarcely believe I actually have to say it out loud.

[NewJeffCT]

10. While I think Biden is a better choice against Trump, I also think Dems

should be happy that Sanders & Warren were both in the race and among the top contenders - because they were farther left than Biden, it makes him look more moderate in comparison, thus deflecting Team Trump's socialist attacks.

[BComplex]

12. Plus, Warren and Sanders together represent the beliefs of a vast majority of people who identify

themselves as democrats. PLUS the younger members, and those coming of age, lean more toward Warren and Sanders beliefs.

Warren herself is a former republican. It was through her studies in finance and law that moved her to the democratic party, and she's got a better handle on the economy than pretty much anyone in the country.

On September 17, 2010, President Obama announced the appointment of Warren as Assistant to the President and Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to set up the new agency.

Warren was appointed BY OBAMA to set up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. What is so extreme leftist about that????

[redstatebluegirl]

13. I am so grateful Biden is the nominee.

He was so scared of Joe he risked impeachment to try and stop him. The GOP were salivating at the thought of Sanders. He would have won big and gotten some house seats too.

Thank goodness!

[MichaelSoE]

15. Really

His latest pitch is "Biden is further left than Bernie"