Democratic frontrunner and former Vice President Joe Biden doesn’t seem as concerned with the Ukraine scandal as he is with President Trump needing to release his tax returns.
“Mr. President release your tax returns — let’s see how straight you are, OK?"
Beautiful dreamer,
Wake unto me
Starlight and dewdrops
Are awaiting thee
Sounds of the rude world
Heard in the day
Led by the moonlight
Have all passed away
Straight talk. Easily understood.
It won’t get Trump to change his ways, but it does help frame the issues for others to get it.
Yes…it’s about effing time Biden said this. And what about the Trump family’s fingers in all those pies leveraging the Oval Office for everything they can get? Hunter Biden is small potatoes comparatively speaking.
Biden has been consistently calling on Trump to release his tax returns, almost from the very beginning of his campaign, using almost the exact same language as he used in the CBS interview. I’m not surprised that you didn’t know that, because the media’s self-selected narrative of the Biden campaign - including here at TPM - has been to ignore what Biden actually says.
As to Trump’s adult children, Biden said he was taught not to go after his opponent’s children. Before Trump, that was the standard in American politics. I understand Biden sticking to that standard, but there’s no reason for the rest of us to do so. If there was ever a person in public life who shouldn’t want his children compared to anyone else’s, it would be Donald Trump.
Biden Urges Trump To Release Tax Returns If He’s So Concerned About Corruption
Silly Duck. Trump’s only concerned about other people’s corruption, not his own. His vociferous complaints about corruption in others only serve to obscure his own. Anything Trump says is pure projection. This is a natural concomitant of a complete lack of empathy. He can only imagine his own situation, not anyone else’s.
It’s good trolling, because it makes trump look weak. And if trump looks weak compared to Biden…
He is worried that other people’s corruption might upstage his own.
Advertisers know the power of consistent and persistent messaging built around key words and phrases. Why can’t Democrats learn something from the playbook used so effectively by Fox and the Republicans when it came to Hillary Clinton?
“He’s an idiot in terms of saying that”
“Release your tax returns or shut up.”
“Everyone knows ads by Trump are a flat lie”
“Why not bring down the lies that Trump is telling and everybody knows they’re lies.”
The general election debates are going to be so much fun –no matter who gets the nomination.
releasing his tax returns would probably end up with his citizenship revoked.
the kids and jared, keep them here at the Grand Leavenworth Hotel for those special criminals.
just passing thoughts
Didn’t see the interview, but that’s great line. Short, sharp, memorable.
Because 30 years of lying and demonizing isn’t going to go away in one campaign.
It is really so uncouth to go after the subpordinate members of a crime family? Christopher, Silvio, and Paulie Walnuts are all off-limits?
I doubt whether Trump will agree to debate if Biden is the nominee. His henchmen are already signalling that they are going to use scheduling conflicts as a pretext for not attending.
I spent a few hours of my weekend listening to interviews with Trump supporters in rural areas, and it was very interesting. I came away with the conclusion that there is absolutely nothing Trump can do that won’t be re-interpreted by these people as an honest reaction to dishonest tactics by Democrats and especially the media. Basically, he is their tough talking businessman who is being stymied by a biased system, fake news and the illegitimate hatred that liberal “elites” direct his way… He is just trying to clean things up in DC and do what is right. They are selectively blind to his real crimes - they will admit he isn’t very smooth sometimes, but that is frequently cited as a plus. These people are not stupid mouth breathers - they are as thoughtful as any average American, they just live in an alternate world that has been carefully constructed over the last few decades and has become impenetrable.
I fear this election is going to be much closer than “conventional wisdom” is expecting. Impeachment hearings, 60 minute interviews and anything else that comes out is not going to faze this unshakable belief that the media and Democrats are never, ever to be trusted. Hopefully this hard core group is closer to 30% than 40%. They may be in a bubble, but so are we if we think Trump cannot win the next election.
They may be in a bubble, but so are we if we think Trump cannot win the next election.
That’s the correct posture to take. Democrats were recently bailed out by a whistle blower. They’re on the right path now. Let’s hope they don’t snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - or something like that. But Biden IMO, as the nominee, complicates everything, making Trump’s chances of winning to close to my comfort zone. Trump has the ability to self-impeach but Biden could easily self-destruct.
There’s something weird and ghostly about how this may all play out.
We have data. 2018 election told us that Trump/GOP lost ground in exurban counties. One of my favorite examples of this is Washington County, PA (SW corner, outside Pittsburgh). These are counties that have trended away from Dems for the last 2 decades. It went from 50-49 Kerry in '04 to 51-46 McCain in 2008 to 60-35 Trump in 2016. Casey got to 47% in 2018 (lost it by 3) and Wolf got to 48% (lost it by 1).
Like that, there are countless mostly white, exurban counties out there where the GOP’s vote share eroded sharply. Trump will get his vote out, but if Dems have the right candidate, he’s not going to get this lofty 20+ point margins in these places.
A very helpful posting. Thanks! Did you get a sense of whether these voters had generally voted Republican in the past. I suspect that is the case, but it would be interesting to know.
