Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s campaign unveiled a new television ad late Tuesday that packages portions of his speech on Monday in Pittsburgh condemning the sporadic violence that has erupted in some cities. The ad came as the former vice president pushes back against President Trump’s efforts to define the Democrats as a party tolerant of lawlessness. Mr. Biden has repeatedly condemned instances in which protests for racial justice have burst into violence, accusing Mr. Trump of stoking divisions and laying blame for any chaos on the current occupant of the White House. But the ad — part of a $45 million one-week television and digital purchase that is by far the campaign’s largest to date — is the first time that Mr. Biden has put this pushback on issues of crime and public safety into a major paid advertising program. “I want to make it absolutely clear,” Mr. Biden says as images flash of burned-out cars and buildings and a confrontation with the police. “Rioting is not protesting. Looting is not protesting. And those who do it should be prosecuted.” Mr. Biden casts himself as a unifying figure who would seek to “lower the temperature” of the national debate and bring the country together. The spot ends with Mr. Biden, who is Catholic, quoting the former pope, John Paul II: “Be not afraid.” Unlike many of Mr. Biden’s recent ads, the 60-second spot does not mention the coronavirus pandemic. The Biden campaign said the ad would air nationally on cable television and in local markets in nine battleground states: Arizona, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The speech in Pittsburgh and the advertising campaign are part of Mr. Biden’s response to a Republican convention last week in which the G.O.P. tried repeatedly to twist the former vice president’s record on crime and policing, with Mr. Trump himself often amplifying the misleading claims on Twitter. At times, the Republicans have accused Mr. Biden of being too tough on criminals, citing his role in crafting the 1994 crime bill; at others, they have accused him of coddling rioters. “Ask yourself: Do I look like a radical socialist with a soft spot for rioters?” Mr. Biden said in Monday’s speech. “Really?” He then pivoted to try to broaden the definition of safety for voters, arguing that Mr. Trump had eroded the health and economic safety of millions of Americans through his response to the coronavirus. “I want a safe America,” Mr. Biden said. “Safe from Covid, safe from crime and looting, safe from racially motivated violence, safe from bad cops. Let me be crystal clear: safe from four more years of Donald Trump.” The sheer size of the new advertising purchase — it is bigger than Mr. Biden’s paid-media budget during the entirety of the 2020 primaries — is a testament to how much money is pouring into the campaign. Mr. Biden raised more than $300 million in August with the Democratic Party, according to people familiar with the matter. The exact figure is still unknown, but the total is believed to be the largest sum that any candidate has ever raised, granting the Biden campaign financial flexibility to spend so heavily on ads in early September.
Thats the edited Biden, it takes dozens of Takes to make him sound normal, the real biden speaks like this:
Expect more of this. Biden is too afraid to leave the basement and only posts pre-written and sanitized tweets on twitter. Once the debates happen 2/3 of it will be biden stuttering to answer any questions. Maybe it's a Happy Gilmore situation and he's just pretending to be retarded. At least thats the vibe I get from the usual Biden crowd here. Every post reply is simply "he's not retarded he's just pretending!"
You are boring with your ad nauseam scripted talking points. 'Wait for the debates' is exactly what Sanderistas said, worked out well for them.
Biden will need to better than this to hold on to voters in swing states. At this point he is losing thousands of voters every day in swing states over to Trump. Biden needs to come out and directly state that he will use federal resources to firmly put an end to BLM and ANTIFA rioting.
Bullshit A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds 78% of Americans remain “very” or “somewhat” concerned about the coronavirus. Nearly 60% said President Trump is at least partly responsible for the protracted school and business closures due to the virus, as well as for the high number of coronavirus cases in the United States. By contrast, most Americans do not see crime as a major priority and do not think it is increasing in their communities Only about 8% of American adults listed crime as a top priority for the country, compared with 30% who said it was the economy or jobs, and 16% who said it was the healthcare system.
I think you need to separate out crime as a different questions than the ongoing riots --- and then review the response to the questions. Also national polls are meaningless -- they are population weighted so Democratic states like California with large populations are over-represented. You need to take a look at polling in each swing state.
Trumptard kills two people, militia roam the streets but it's Biden's fault who is not even in charge. You dumb Cons can be fooled with anything, go join Trump University again.