Quote (thesnipa @ Sep 8 2023 12:29pm)
no. biden's whole gameplan is the same as 2020, "i'm not trump, and i'm not more scary".
the only people who ever cared about the defending our democracy stuff were solid leftists. centrists just want to know if the person who isn't trump is also not more extreme or worrying to them. there's a fringe case for people who are already leftists but weren't motivated to vote otherwise, and biden gave them a safe motivation to vote.
that defending our democracy stuff wont play any better in battleground states like PA, WI, OH, IN etc any better than "hes a racist, homophobic, mysogonistic, etc" stuff did there in 2016.
shout from the roof tops how terrible the economy is for middle americans and trump could sweep every purple rust belt and midwest state. focus on Hunter and people will get bored into flipping a coin in the voting booth.
I don't see why they can't and shouldn't do both. To repurpose an old proverb, "
slander speak boldly, something always sticks".