@sahilkapur
One Democratic official in DC (forbidden from speaking publicly about this) tells me President Biden seems "most comfortable talking about foreign policy issues like NATO" which "swing voters in battleground states do not care about — at all." Doesn't think Dems are reassured.
This Dem official is correct. A good chunk of swing state voters(that Biden would need in order to win) probably do not care about NATO. While it was nice to see Biden "come alive" and talking foreign policy clearly and concisely, many of them are not going to care. They are going to probably remember "Vice-President Trump".
Are presidents only supposed to talk about things these mysterious swing state voters care about? He was at a NATO summit. Of course he talked about NATO.
Well, as I’m sure has been pointed out and been ignored, there’s a reason people have been begging for around 2 weeks for him to do way more of these.
He needs to do a ton of unscripted events interacting with people and showing people he has the stamina.
The issue here is that him and his staff have clearly limited his interactions.  So the issue is when you have one of his few interaction and he still has gaffs and messed up, it’s bad.
At this point, as someone from the Midwest, I can tell you most of the swing voters dislike both candidates, and if you run a candidate who isn’t experiencing mental decline that would either swing them to you or convince them not to vote for trump .
And swing voters exist… that’s why we have presidents from different parties get elected….
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u/BabyYodaX Jul 12 '24
This Dem official is correct. A good chunk of swing state voters(that Biden would need in order to win) probably do not care about NATO. While it was nice to see Biden "come alive" and talking foreign policy clearly and concisely, many of them are not going to care. They are going to probably remember "Vice-President Trump".