Voters are searching for a unifying candidate. He’s it. He needs to remind voters that the whole impeachment imbroglio — and Trump’s subsequent actions, including sacking the Vindman brothers as well as Gordon Sondland — stem from his crusade to dig up dirt in Ukraine. Trump fears, or at least used to fear, Biden. There’s no cogent reason that Biden should be fearful about pointing that out. At the same time, he needs to point out the shortcomings in the Trump economy. Today’s tweet was a start: ‘under Donald Trump: – Job growth has slowed – Manufacturing is worse off – Income inequality is higher than ever He is squandering the growing Obama-Biden economy that he inherited — just like he has squandered everything else that he has inherited in his life.’
Biden also needs to get around more. His campaign is apparently preparing a media blitz that should help him demonstrate that he’s far from finished. He also needs to get into a clinch with Bernie Sanders and pummel him, again and again, as a radical socialist who not simply lose the election, but also take down the Democratic party writ large in November. At the same time, Biden needs to sketch out his own vision for where he wants to take America. What he has run has been a caretaker campaign that is focused on the past, not the future. Invoking the Obama years is no substitute for a plan of action. The nostalgic haze enveloping the Biden campaign needs to be replaced with actual proposals and plans. Until now, he has left a gaping hole that is being ably filled by Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar.
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