President Trump’s trip to Arizona Tuesday was his first outside of the White House in more than a month, aside from a weekend at Camp David.
The Trump campaign has also been spending money on social media ads pushing twin messages: the president's coronavirus response, and attacks on his Democratic rival.
The White House and Trump campaign have few alternatives but to try to turn the focus to the economy and away from the ongoing public health crisis, where Trump has struggled to gain the public trust or show empathy for the more than 65,000 American who have died from the virus, said one outside adviser.
While Trump had once planned to sell himself to voters by touting the success of the economy, he’s now having to return to his 2016 playbook of trying to present himself as the best candidate to fix the country’s economic ills, echoing his “I alone can fix it” declarations from when he accepted the Republican nomination that year.
“The Trump policies built the economy up to unprecedented heights once, and he will do it again,” said Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh. “At the same time, we are going to define Biden on those issues.”
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