Experts said the response from Biden signals a willingness to take a page out of Trump's playbook to get in front of the president's attacks.
Tuesday by the Center for Public Integrity and Ipsos showed about 3 in 10 Americans in the poll sample blaming China or Chinese people for the pandemic.
"Things already were trending in a negative direction, even before the coronavirus," Shih said, noting the ongoing trade war between the United States and China, but the ongoing"China-bashing" was "doing real harm to the status of Asian Americans overall but especially Americans of Chinese descent." Trump's ad includes an image of former Washington Governor Gary Locke, who is Chinese American, prompting criticism of the Trump campaign. LockeBiden's ad received positive reviews fromBut others, particularly from the progressive left and some Asian American groups, disagreed with the Biden campaign's messaging and the focus on China from both campaigns.responded to the Biden ad on Twitter, saying Biden was trying to"out-Trump Trump.
"I understand the instinct for a campaign to respond directly to an opposing campaign's ad," Chen said,"and while I do not believe the Biden campaign meant to be xenophobic, the ad was still a misstep."
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