What We’re Looking Forward to Seeing at the Republican National Convention

3. Defining Joe Biden

Senile or a Trojan horse? A senile Trojan horse.

The Trump campaign ramped up its attacks on Joe Biden as senile during the week of the campaign, releasing an ad on the matter for which it bought prime space on YouTube. Fox News was quite taken with the message as well. It wasn’t the most effective attack to have deployed leading into Biden’s Thursday speech, as Biden delivered a well-received address with command. In its rapid-response statement to Biden’s speech, then, the Trump campaign pivoted to its other main line of attack: He’s a puppet of the Jacobins, who, if they had their way, would kill you the first time you misgendered someone on Twitter. “By accepting his party’s nomination tonight, Joe Biden has formally become a pawn of the radical leftists,” the campaign said. “His name is on the campaign logo, but the ideas come from the socialist extremists.” This is a more sustainable line of attack, but it still concedes a lingering problem for Trump: They don’t have a way of directly defining Biden, himself, negatively. People are going to start voting in, like, a month. Can they find something in Biden’s 50-year political history that sticks?

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