Christians react to Trump's Bible endorsement
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boasting about his golf game. On Thursday, the ex-president traveled to New York to attend the wake of a fallen police officer – on a trip that allowed him to deepen his characterization of a nation adrift and plagued by crime under President Joe Biden.
But there wasn’t much in Trump’s busy week that resembled a conventional general election campaign – certainly not one that might address some of his biggest liabilities as he seeks a return to the White House.
One attendee told CNN after leaving the off-camera fundraiser that the three presidents spoke repeatedly about the threat a second Trump term would pose, with Biden saying the former president would tear up the Constitution and alluding to Trump’s comment that he’d only be a dictator on “day one.”
Biden and his team have also been aggressively taking the campaign to Trump on policy. For instance, they used this week’s Supreme Court arguments over restricting access to an abortion drug to accuse the former president of ripping away women’s reproductive services with his construction of a deeply conservative majority whose overturning of Roe v. Wade has set off a cascade of co
Trump has always been an outlier. And his refusal to play by the rules of a normal campaign is the key to his political appeal among supporters who despise governing elites. Biden is working in a traditional campaign lane, seeking to repair cracks in his coalition among young people, Black voters and disaffected Democrats. But the presumptive Republican nominee’s strategy can best be understood at this point as a merger of his legal defense in multiple cases – in which he claims he’s the victim of political persecution – and as a series of photo ops meant to harness the attention he craves.
On Monday, for instance, the former president chose to show up in court in New York and then threw a tantrum when a judge set an April 15 trial date in a case related to a hush money payment to an adult film star. Trump was back in his former home state on Thursday, attending a wake for a fallen police officer on Long Island. Afterwards, he described the officer’s murder as a “sad, sad event” and used the occasion to spell out a searing message. “We have to get back to law and order,” he said, seeking to portray the US under Biden as a crime-ridden dystopia. But characteristically, while he used pointed rhetoric, the ex-president failed to offer specific policies to improve the situation as a typical presidential candidate might.
Trump will certainly crank up the pace of his rallies as November’s election approaches and he needs to drive his voters to the polls. And next week, he plans to stop in a critical swing state – Michigan, which he won in 2016 and lost four years later. The former president plans to deliver remarks on Tuesday on “Biden’s border bloodbath” in what promises to be an intensification of his extreme approach to immigration.
Despite its currently sluggish pace, the former president’s campaign was far more professional in this year’s primaries than it was during his upstart bid for the presidency in 2016. It’s too early to say whether unseen work that the Trump campaign is doing to build organizations in key states is paving the way for a successful run back to the Oval Office. There’s been little effort so far by Trump to win over supporters of former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who is still winning significant votes in primary elections despite suspending her campaign.
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