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The Biden team is scrambling, trying to figure out how to deal with a problem like Joe Biden.
They’ve put him in new shoes to help prevent him from tripping. They’ve reportedly had handlers covering him, standing between the media and Biden to obscure his stilted, elderly walk. They got him the short stairs to reduce steps into Air Force One. But as we’ve said, that’s still not hiding all the issues.
Now, they’ve come up with a new plan, according to NBC — they’re going to be shortening his speeches.
NBC reports Biden’s handlers are “looking to shorten his speeches” to limit his public displays of cognitive decline.
A Biden campaign spokesman insists it’s about “quality over quantity.” pic.twitter.com/GreyaVbgN6
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 4, 2024
Less is more, they claim, and “quality over quantity.”
“There’s a strategic advantage at this point in the race to boiling down your message to the three or four most salient, compelling arguments for why President Biden should be re-elected,” said TJ Ducklo, the Biden campaign’s senior adviser for communications. “That will often translate to the stump [speech] being whittled down to its sharpest, most dynamic form. That’s what you’re seeing.”
Oh, come on, man. Should we also note that Ducklo was the guy who threatened to “destroy” a reporter then resigned after an outcry? Biden had promised to boot anyone involved in harassment. Yet here he is again on Biden’s campaign team. So much for Biden’s promise.
Even NBC wasn’t exactly buying Ducklo’s line now.
The approach also has the appearance of a strategy aimed at minimizing the potential for Biden to make mistakes in a razor-close election. Some of Biden’s verbal missteps have occurred when he’s talking at length, veers off the prepared text or answers a reporter’s question when that wasn’t part of the plan.
Shorter, crisper remarks from Biden are part of his campaign’s broader strategy of having him appear more in smaller settings that the president’s aides believe serve him better than large, traditional rallies with voters.
Speaking in smaller venues can also hide the fact that people just don’t come out for him like they do for his opponent, former President Donald Trump.
According to NBC, some advisers want him to stop giving formal prepared speeches altogether and just make informal, less scripted stops. Well, how would that go since Joe Biden can barely operate even with a script?
The real problem isn’t Biden, according to his team. It’s “how much harder it is to get — and keep — voters’ attention.”
No, it isn’t hard to hold voters’ attention at all — if you care about their issues and you say something worthwhile. The real problem is that most people don’t even think Joe Biden knows what’s going on.
But as NBC noted, sometimes Joe Biden screws up those efforts to protect him by speaking longer anyway, going off script as he did in North Carolina, speaking for twenty minutes. That resulted in him losing to the teleprompter and telling a whopper about Walmart.
As NBC explains:
Even so, the official added, a briefer stump speech is no guarantee that Biden avoids mistakes, given sometimes shorter prepared remarks only invite the president to go beyond the written text.
In other words, the staff can’t stop him from going rogue and being rambling, gaffing Joe Biden.
But what does it say when they want to have their guy say less in a critical campaign? How’s he going to deal with a debate? What about any crisis that requires more than a seven-minute speech?
At this point why even bother with a campaign? https://t.co/euax8rSjhc
— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) May 5, 2024
If they get much shorter he will waving good bye from a speeding car https://t.co/waihmAun24
— Dr. Mark Young (@MarkYoungTruth) May 4, 2024
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Biden Loses to the Teleprompter Trying to Spell a Word, and Tells a Whopper About Walmart
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