{"id":40635,"date":"2020-08-05T04:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T01:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/joe-bidens-basement-strategy-will-backfire-goodwin\/"},"modified":"2020-08-05T04:08:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T01:08:00","slug":"joe-bidens-basement-strategy-will-backfire-goodwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/joe-bidens-basement-strategy-will-backfire-goodwin\/","title":{"rendered":"#Joe Biden\u2019s basement strategy will backfire: Goodwin"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Joe Biden\u2019s basement strategy will backfire: Goodwin<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n For Joe Biden, these are the best of days. Riding high in the polls, he has a long list of Democrats scrambling to be his running mate, while others offer themselves for plum Cabinet posts.<\/p>\n

Remarkably, media<\/a> supporters are coming out of the woodwork to advise him to skip the three presidential debates.<\/p>\n

Somewhere, some member of the Deep State is probably sneaking around the White House, measuring the curtains.<\/p>\n

It is an astonishing turnabout for the vice president. Recall that his best debate performances were mediocre, and he did so badly in the first primaries that going into South Carolina, the\u00a0smart money said he had to win big or go home.<\/p>\n

Yet here he is, with a comfortable lead over Donald Trump \u2014 and almost exactly where Hillary Clinton was four years ago.<\/p>\n

On Aug. 4, 2016, Clinton led Trump by nearly 7 points in the RealClearPolitics average of national polls. That same metric now has Biden up by 7.4 points.<\/p>\n

With apologies to Yogi Berra, if Biden isn\u2019t careful, America could wake up in November with that d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu feeling all over again.<\/p>\n

Just as military general<\/a>s prepare to fight the last war, political consultants are prone to repeat the same errors that led to defeat before. The big one here is that Biden can play it safe, stay in his basement bunker, and take the oath next January.<\/p>\n

For example, Biden has answered questions from the press just twice this summer, and the media obliged him with softball questions. It is notable that Chris Wallace of Fox News<\/a>, a notoriously tough interview, recently grilled President Trump on his Sunday show, and then followed with an invitation to Biden that was promptly rejected.<\/p>\n

The most fanciful part of the hidin\u2019 Biden fantasies is the newest \u2014 that he can skip the debates and still get elected. I don\u2019t see how that works.<\/p>\n

For one thing, if there is anything voters, and Trump, can smell, it\u2019s fear. And the mere entertaining of the idea that Biden could break with tradition that goes back nearly half a century and take a pass on face-to-face showdowns with his opponent may masquerade as strategy, but it is a sign of fear, plain and simple.<\/p>\n

It is the fear that Biden will be unmasked as mentally unfit to be president. If that fear is legitimate, it is not a secret to those who know him, and general-election voters have a right to see it clearly for themselves before they make their final choice for the presidency.<\/p>\n

So far, Biden\u2019s team hasn\u2019t suggested he won\u2019t debate Trump, but it is almost certainly something they have thought about. It\u2019s even possible they have given a silent app<\/a>roval to the media Praetorian Guard floating the trial balloon to see if it flies. As of now, it\u2019s still flying, unmolested by any hostile fire from other top Democrats. Where are Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi? Where is the Democratic National Committee? Where is Barack Obama on this one?<\/p>\n

Their silence shows they, too, want to know if the no-show ruse will work. After all, they, too, must suspect that Biden cannot go for three, 90-minute encounters with Trump and emerge intact.<\/p>\n

Think what that means; it means the Biden campaign and the entire establishment of the Democratic Party are prepared to foist a seriously impaired man into the Oval Office, uncertain that he can fulfill his duties. Trump Derangement Syndrome has done some strange things to people, but this one takes the cake.<\/p>\n

In reality, if it became widely understood among independent voters that the insiders wanted Biden to skip the debates because they knew he wasn\u2019t up to them, that would almost certainly lead to a Trump victory. Put it this way: Why would anyone who isn\u2019t mad with Trump hatred vote for an opponent whose most intimate associates know he can\u2019t do the job?<\/p>\n

Although the first televised presidential debate is the most famous \u2014 the one between Kennedy and Nixon in 1960 \u2014 it wasn\u2019t until 1976, when President Gerald Ford met challenger Jimmy Carter, that debates cemented themselves as a fall requirement. For the last two decades, there have been three each cycle, and one more between running mates.<\/p>\n

Some have been enormously consequential, but most matter because they establish a baseline test of competence and readiness. With the coronavirus wreaking havoc on this year\u2019s party conventions, the acceptance speeches by Trump and Biden will lose some of their excitement, giving their debates added significance.<\/p>\n

If Biden doesn\u2019t show, the impact would be all the more dramatic.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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