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I tend to assume that campaign people know what they're doing better than I can, but the Trump strategy of exaggerating Biden's senescence seems to be the dumbest I've seen. First, he's set it up so every time Biden makes an appearance, everyone who buys it thinks, "damn, he looked really good" just because he's speaking normally. Second, it invites a really uncomfortable comparison and look at Trump's own caducity. Third, it likely alienates a key demographic that Trump is losing.
Agree with all three points. In theory it would be an effective strategy, if it could work. But I think Trump himself probably saw the gaffes and was like "yea we're gonna get him with this", and now it's making Biden look even stronger than if the expectation was that he'd look solid anyway. Why would you run with your opponent being super weak, just for them to merely look normal turn into them looking amazing? It defies all logic. If anything, make him look like he's super strong due to his experience and ties with Obama, and then if he messes up try to blow it up. A definitively self-defeating move running with the braindead narrative from someone trying to run the larger than life gimmick. It's probably the worst route of attack he could have gone with coming from him, which possibly explains why it was used by him lol.