'Difficult to attack vanilla': Trump's throwing everything at Biden but nothing sticks
1 / 2President Donald Trump and his campaign have spent months deploying a series of attacks on Joe Biden, depicting him as weak, unfit and a tool of leftists.
Perhaps most important, Trump was the outsider challenger last time around. Now, he's an incumbent with a record. The Trump campaign spent most heavily on TV ads claiming Biden will be a tool of the far-left, that he does not have the mental competency to be president and that he's the wrong person to deal with China.
The campaign has spent at least $4.2 million in English and $2.3 million in Spanish on that ad since May, according to Advertising Analytics, which also shows the campaign has spent more than $10 million on a variety of ads saying Biden is the wrong choice to deal with China. Trump himself bounced between Biden messages while faced with a pandemic that has killed more than 136,000 Americans and nationwide protests, recently accusing Biden of being against schools reopening.
At his rally in Tulsa last month, Trump slammed Biden for not writing all of the statements attributed to him, saying they are instead written by"professional people, great students in English lit." He also said Biden would"surrender your country to these mobsters," citing leftists.
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