China has fast become a top election issue as U.S. President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden engage in a verbal brawl over who's better at playing the tough guy against Beijing.
The Trump campaign put out ads showing Biden toasting China's Xi Jinping, even though Trump did just that with Xi in Asia and hosted the Chinese leader at his Florida club. Spots from the Biden campaign feature Trump playing down the coronavirus and praising Xi for being transparent about the pandemic, even though it's clear China hid details of the outbreak from the world.
"Which person looks more subservient to the Chinese leaders is the person who's in more jeopardy," Luntz said. Trump's advisers see China as an opportunity to portray Biden as deferential to Beijing when he was President Barack Obama's vice-president and point person on Asia, according to three campaign officials and Republicans close to the White House. The campaign made a push in May to link Biden with China, complete with an advertising blitz, but the effort did little to raise Trump's poll numbers.
Peter Navarro, one of Trump's senior economic advisers, kept up the drumbeat on Fox News Channel's "Sunday Morning Futures," saying "the Chinese Communist Party basically hit us with that deadly virus, that weaponized virus" and disrupted the U.S. economy. He suggested Beijing was using social media apps such as TikTok to steal American intellectual property as part of a plan to hurt Trump for his strong stands against China.
"Trump said he'd get tough on China," one of Biden campaign ads says. "He didn't get tough. He got played."
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