Biden needs to emphasize the risks of a second Trump term without annoying and alienating voters who are sick of hearing about him.

Joe Biden’s campaign is facing a strategic dilemma. Since the president’s job-approval ratings have been consistently low, his path to reelection depends on making 2024 a comparative choice between himself and Donald Trump, his scary, extremist predecessor. That task is becoming more urgent as evidence emerges that a sizable number of voters either don’t remember or misremember the four turbulent years of the Trump administration. But paradoxically, educating voters about the potential consequences of a Biden defeat could annoy and alienate them by pushing Trump fatigue to new heights.

  • Soup@lemmy.world
    915·
    6 months ago

    Almost like he should just listen to the voters and also all the fucking scientists and economists if he wants to energize tired voters.

    “Stop selling Israel weapons.” “Be more aggressive with climate policy, we’re already late and can’t dilly-dally anymore.” “Oh my god just actually make a fucking effort instead of offering lukewarm responses all the time.”

    It’s not hard, and the science backs up the demands.

    • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
      4·
      6 months ago

      Be more aggressive with climate policy, we’re already late and can’t dilly-dally anymore.

      Wellllllllll

      • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
        32·
        6 months ago

        Welllllllllll

        Biden took half a trillion dollars’ worth of action on climate change which he funded by taxing Amazon + friends which ticked emissions down to 40% reduction by 2030 which is way too late and nowhere near enough no but he started working on it the instant he got in office and had to do the whole thing twice because Manchin blew up the first much more aggressive one at the last minute so yes we need to do a hell of a lot more but it seems weird to pick out the ONE guy in American government who has achieved ANY level of forward progress and give him and only him criticism about how important is climate change and we can’t possibly elect him especially since the other guy wants to undo even that step and start blowing up the planet even harder which makes me question a little bit whether you REALLY care about climate change or whether your explicit targeting of the one guy who made some progress on it is maybe

        🎶

        Just maybe

        Focused and directed in service of an agenda which is maybe

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        Maybe just maybe NOT

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        Aligned with solving climate change

        🎶🎶🎶

        Especially given the fact that you seem totally uninterested in conversations about solving climate change which do NOT lead in direct and immediate A->B fashion into not voting for Joe Biden

      • RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        6 months ago

        Actually I am running for president. I’m just poor AF so you’ll have to use a write in since I’m not really party allegiant or super well known.

        It’s not hard.