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The vice president has managed to consolidate most of her party’s voting coalition in the seven weeks since Presidentabruptly ended his reelection campaign and threw his support behind her. But her failure to lock down some groups, such as young Black men and Latinos, has left her campaign in a precarious position against the coup-attempting former president with less than two months left until Election Day.
Tuesday’s contest was initially supposed to be the second one between Biden and Trump. That matchup ended, though, in the weeks following Biden’s disastrous performance in their first debate of the 2024 election cycle, on June 27. Biden sounded hoarse and looked weak, which his campaign blamed on a cold, and flubbed questions, reinforcing many voters’ concerns about his age. At one point, he said he finally “beat Medicare” when he meant to take credit for beating the pharmaceutical industry.
Asked what message she hoped to get across, she had ready lines she uses frequently as she presents herself as a “change” candidate: “It’s time to turn the page on the divisiveness. It’s time to bring our country together. Chart a new way forward.”. Trump, meanwhile, has now done six general election debates: three against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016, two against Biden in 2020 and the one this June against Biden.
Steve Schale, a Democratic consultant who has worked with a pro-Biden super PAC for years, agreed. “Just keep doing what she was doing at the convention: Lean into the median voter, and don’t let him pull you into his sandbox. As long as he wants to remind people of the chaos that defined his presidency, just let him do it.”Thank you for your past contribution to HuffPost. We are sincerely grateful for readers like you who help us ensure that we can keep our journalism free for everyone.
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