Analysis: The 2020 race is on—just not in person. The intense, sometimes weird online competition already underway between Trump and Biden
talk about Trump. “Sometimes I think he’s more pastoral than people that I know that are pastors,” she said. “I’ve never seen somebody so open to God,” he said. “We have to keep President Trump in office,” she said. “And now,” said host“Waiting for Joe Biden,” it said on the bottom left corner of my screen. His Zoom with Al Gore was supposed to start at 2:30. It was 2:31. It was 2:32. It was 2:33. The campaign sent out an email. “The event will begin soon …” It was a sunny day.
Gore finally flashed on the screen, set up in front of a nondescript, mostly gray wall, leavened only by some sprigs of white flowers. “This is not rocket science,” he said. “This is the most consequential choice in a presidential election that we’ve ever had in American history. Donald Trump is the face of climate denial, globally.
On JoeBiden.com, it asked for money—five bucks, 10, 25, 50, 100 or more. Over at YouTube, the Biden livestream asked in effect for quiet. “Chat is disabled for this live stream,” it said. Top: Republican Congressmen Lee Zeldin and Matt Gaetz depart the White House following a meeting with the president about coronavirus. Bottom: At the White House, Congresswoman Elise Stefanik is singled out for applause during a speech by the president following his acquittal in the impeachment trial. | AP; Getty Images“Team Trump Online!” His guests were two of the most Trump-backing members of the House, Matt Gaetz from the Panhandle of Florida and Elise Stefanik from upstate New York.
The contrast between the way the two campaigns stoke—or ignore—their respective audiences is a stark glimpse into the “The screen that is the Biden campaign trail, fair or not, feels inert, in a way the Trump screen simply does not. The Trump screen is moving. The Trump screen is dynamic. And the echo chamber of that hive of scrolling chatter, from The Irritated American to Qanon17 to WINWINWIN TRUMP, never, ever stops.
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