Interviewed by Fox News Chris Wallace today of 74-year-old President Donald Trump got testy at times, especially when it came to his 77-year-old Democrat rival former Vice President Joe Biden (D-Del.). Wallace objected to Trump saying that Biden would de-fund the police and promote an open-border policy, telling Trump that he’s not heard that Biden wants to do that. But Trump persisted, telling Wallace that in fact Biden entered into a pact with 78-year-old Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who’s pledged his supporters as long a Joe toes the leftist line, agreeing to Medicare-for-all, free college tuition, comprehensive immigration reform and, together with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-.N.Y.) loyalty to the “Green New Deal,” dramatically reducing the U.S. carbon footprint. Wallace played devil’s advocate, arguing with Trump, when they were actually in agreement on most issues.
Wallace found it incredulous that Biden would be for de-funding the police but, the 77-year-old former Vice President has committed himself to picking a black female running mate, most likely Sen. Kamala Harris (D-N.Y.), who agrees with Black Lives Matter’s demand to de-fund the police, even if it doesn’t end police departments around the country. De-funding the police has come to mean re-allocating resources from police departments to other social service agencies that benefit communities of color. Biden has pandered since winning South Carolina primary Feb. 29, promising Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) that he’d put a black women on the ticket. Trump’s contention that Biden would back Black Lives Matter’s call to de-fund the police is entirely plausible, even if Joe hasn’t said it on the record. Trump’s interview with Wallace actually showed his charming, playful side.
Democrats strategy heading into the election is to blame Trump for soaring cases of coronavirus AKA SARS CoV-2 or Covid-19 around the country. With 3,898,550 cases and 143,289 deaths in the U.S., Democrats have their best campaign strategy against Trump: Blame him for the Covid-19 epidemic. Biden claims he would have done a better job managing the novel coronavirus nightmare than Trump, something that’s pure speculation. “I think of all of you today,” Biden said in a new TV ad, mentioning “rising case numbers causing fear and apprehension.” Biden knows he has no magic wand when it comes to dealing to the Covid-19 crisis. “This virus is tough but we can stop the spread. It’s up to all of us to do it,” Biden said, urging voters to wear mask, maintain social distance and wash their hands. With prescriptions like that, how can Biden go wrong?
Biden knows that it’s unfeasible to shut down the country like what happened in March, April and May, causing catastrophic damage to the U.S. economy. With unemployment soaring from 3.5% to 15%, Biden has no idea what he’d do to slow the spread of the virus, anymore than Trump. Yet Democrats have committed to trashing Trump’s handling of the coronavirus not because it’s true but because it’s good politics. Americans are fed up with the continued Covid-19 crisis and its disastrous impact on the U.S. economy. There’s no denying what the shutdowns have done to the economy. Democrats continue to pit National Institutes of Health infectiouns disease chief 80-year-old Anthony Fauci against Trump. Interviewed on every Democrat-friendly news network, Fauci answers questions that reflect badly on Trump. Fauci has no problem touting his handling of the virus.
Biden’s been cautiously running his campaign from his Wilmington, De., basement, issuing platitudes how to manage the epidemic. “Wear a mask, wash your hands, stay home if you can and socially distance when you go out,” Biden urges, contrasting himself with Trump, who’s been advocating returning to work and opening up public schools. “I will not abandon you,” Biden says. “We’re all it this together. We’ll fight his together. And, together, we’ll emerge from this stronger that we were before we began,” expressing the kind of platitudes hoping to appeal to Trump voters. But if you really read between the lines, Biden has no plan to deal with coronavirus any more than Trump, because, in reality, there isn’t one. Telling voters to wear masks and tough it out is no plan at all. Nor is it a plan to advocate shutting down the economy for the second time.
Democrats want to spin the Wallace interview with Trump to look like he scored points against the president. But when you really look at how it went, Trump was given plenty of time to get out his campaign talking points. Trump told Wallace you can’t trust “Sleepy Joe” because he’s a puppet of the radical left, because of his diminished mental capacity. Trump recently took a Mini Mental State Exam, a test of cognitive abilities typically used to screen for dementia. He urged Biden to take the test to show the public what they’re really dealing with Joe. Trump told Wallace he didn’t believe the Fox News polls that show him running behind Biden. Trump pointed out those were the same polls in 2016 that showed him losing to “crooked Hillary.” Basically Trump told Wallace that voters can’t trust Biden because he’s a pawn of the radical left controlled by Bernie, Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).
