With President Trump's reelection campaign upended by the pandemic, his team has been testing new lines of attack against Joe Biden. The effort coincides with the campaign's worries about eroding support in several battlegrounds.
President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 21, 2020, in Washington.
Though the nation is fixated on the White House’s response to the pandemic, the Trump campaign is prioritizing attacks on Biden rather than selling the president’s handling of the crisis. Worried about declines in support in several battleground states, the campaign is using its financial war chest to try to drive down Biden’s standing by hammering his ties Beijing and, soon, reviving accusations that the former vice president and his son are corrupt.
It’s a risky strategy since Trump himself has faced questions about his approach to Beijing. But it’s one that the campaign hopes will tie Biden more closely to the pandemic, while also reinforcing his past support of free trade deals, which are unpopular in swaths of the Midwest that will be critical battlegrounds during the general election.
The Trump campaign touted the president’s January decision to restrict travel from China and, after periods of silence for fear of upsetting Chinese President Xi Jinping, his recent criticism of Beijing’s lack of transparency about the outbreak. The Biden campaign has responded by pointing to inconsistencies with the president’s handling of China and the pandemic as a whole, which has killed more than 45,000 Americans and sent the economy hurtling toward a recession.
Hunter Biden has not been charged with any wrongdoing. Even though Trump was impeached for pressuring Ukraine to investigate those very claims, his supporters are undeterred.
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