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Biden tests role as empathetic answer to Trump during coronavirus crisis

  

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Via:  larry-hampton  •  4 years ago  •  12 comments

Biden tests role as empathetic answer to Trump during coronavirus crisis
Joe Biden presented himself as a president-in-waiting in America's hour of need.

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After taking command of the Democratic   nominating race in Tuesday's primaries,   the former vice president   projected presidential-style gravitas, positioning himself as the antidote to   President Donald Trump's in-denial stewardship of the novel coronavirus crisis in a strategic pivot towards November's election.


Promising to unite his party and the nation   at a time of deep anxiety, Biden used the moment to pose as a competent, compassionate replacement for the current commander-in-chief.

Biden's move at this particular moment is a sign of just how much the pandemic's arrival on US shores has transformed the political environment and the terrain of the 2020 election in a way that may soon mirror wrenching changes coming to everyday American life.





In a short televised speech Tuesday night, Biden offered a preview of orthodox, conventional leadership the country has not seen in the three years of Trump's sledgehammer presidency. The election that takes place in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic may test whether enough Americans, traumatized by a national crisis, want that return to "normal" or will decide to stick with Trump's tear-it-down leadership.



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Larry Hampton
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1  seeder  Larry Hampton    4 years ago
"At this moment, when there's so much fear in the country and so much fear across the world, we need American leadership," Biden said in a sober tone, with his wife Jill by his side.
"We need presidential leadership that's honest, trusted, truthful and steady, reassuring leadership," Biden added.
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Tacos!
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1.1  Tacos!  replied to  Larry Hampton @1    4 years ago
reassuring

What does that mean I wonder? Is he supposed to say something like "it's not so bad" or "Everything will be ok eventually?" Because Trump says stuff like that and gets pounded for not taking it seriously enough. How many times have we heard him be accused of downplaying the virus? Reassurance would seem to be a mortal sin, no?

 
 
 
JBB
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2  JBB    4 years ago

Biden is the next President of the United States!

Bet on it...

 
 
 
Texan1211
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2.1  Texan1211  replied to  JBB @2    4 years ago

Doubling down on last presidential election losses, eh?

LMAO!

 
 
 
Nerm_L
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4  Nerm_L    4 years ago

I watched Joe Biden's speech.  Every point in Biden's speech is being addressed now.  Everything that Biden proposed is being done now.  The current administration is taking the steps that Biden says need to be taken.

Joe Biden only demonstrated he can read a speech on teleprompters.  Biden didn't offer alternatives or a new approach.  

 
 
 
Ronin2
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4.1  Ronin2  replied to  Nerm_L @4    4 years ago

Alternatives? The Dems don't have alternatives to addressing the crisis. 

Biden isn't Trump. That is the only thing they are running on.

In the end it is switching an old, hated, vile, criminal anti Establishment, old white male President; for a senile, demented, criminal pro Establishment old white male President. 

Change the Establishment and the Democrats can believe in!

 
 
 
Tacos!
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4.3  Tacos!  replied to  Nerm_L @4    4 years ago
Every point in Biden's speech is being addressed now.

I don't think there's really a lot of disagreement about what is being done or needs to be done. Unfortunately, Biden's role, at this point, is to project himself as superior to the current president so I guess that's all he's going to be about. 

There is a contrasting example to this. When the financial crisis hit in 2008, Bush, McCain, and Obama were all talking with each other about how to respond to the crisis. Although, I do wonder if maybe even just acknowledging that there was a problem hurt McCain on Election Day. But the outcome was probably inevitable at that point.

 
 

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