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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA Key G.O.P. Strategy: Blame China. But Trump Goes Off Message.
WASHINGTON The strategy could not be clearer: From the Republican lawmakers blanketing Fox News to new ads from President Trumps super PAC to the biting criticism on Donald Trump Jr.s Twitter feed, the G.O.P. is attempting to divert attention from the administrations heavily criticized response to the coronavirus by pinning the blame on China.
With the death toll from the pandemic already surpassing 34,000 Americans and unemployment soaring to levels not seen since the Great Depression, Republicans increasingly believe that elevating China as an archenemy culpable for the spread of the virus, and harnessing Americas growing animosity toward Beijing, may be the best way to salvage a difficult election.
Republican senators locked in difficult races are preparing commercials condemning China. Conservatives with future presidential ambitions of their own, like Senators Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley, are competing to see who can talk tougher toward the country where the virus first emerged. Party officials are publicly and privately brandishing polling data in hopes Mr. Trump will confront Beijing.
Mr. Trumps own campaign aides have endorsed the strategy, releasing an attack ad last week depicting Joseph R. Biden Jr., the presumptive Democratic nominee, as soft on China. The ad relied heavily on images of people of Asian descent, including former Gov. Gary Locke of Washington, who is Chinese-American, and it was widely viewed as fanning the flames of xenophobia.
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The stupid is overwhelming in this strategy. What ever China may or may not have done does not absolve the ineptitude of the Trump Administration in dealing with the virus now that it's here.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,955 posts)It is only distraction.
Stay on message and let tRump wander.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,371 posts)Chinese efforts vs Covid19 might make this a difficult sell to voters with a functioning brain.
lame54
(35,262 posts)They have nothing