JimBowie1958
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I do not believe the polls about Trump being 80 gazzillion points behind Brainless Biden.
But Trump can polish his campaign with the following tactical adjustments.
1) Not everyone voting for Biden really *wants* Biden, they are just terrified of Trump. And why? Some think he is an ally of Putin, is corrupt and some think he is a genuine idiot. These morons are not reachable. But some people just dont like Trumps brashness and style. Trump could compliment his justifiable strike-back tweets with conciliatory tweets to people like victims of crime in Democratic cities and people displaced by H1-b visa holders. Just more balance between slamming his fist on opponents noses vrs conciliatory pats on the back to people he plans to champion in his next term can soften his image some and go a very long way.
2) While I think Trump has done a great job with the economy and the COVID19 policies, voters are of the 'Whathaveyoudoneformelately' tribe and Trumps best moves are way back in time, whole months ago, lol. So Trump needs to try to put the spotlight on good things that are happening NOW. Like the continued fall in COVID19 deaths/million, and the hospitalization rate which I think is also much more of a tiny blip than a catastrophe. He needs to get people rehired and small businesses reopening ASAP, and I think he is doing really good so far, but there is a perception that the V recovery is collapsing which is not true. He needs to get some make work, shovel ready jobs out there to get people employed with money in their pockets to spend at the reopened businesses. Then chat up the lowering unemployment rate till the cows wander home.
3) Trump needs to hold a rally each weekend somewhere. These rallies are very valuable in getting contact info for volunteers, but to make them appear to be safer, and would be in actuality IMO, do out door rallies instead of indoor rallies.
4) Trump should counter-punch the Medicare for all of Bidens with a Medicaid for all as an insurance policy. Use existing Medicaid, turn into a semi government insurance program, and price the policies with the average of a national level insurance pool (nationalize the ACA state pools) and prorate the coverage based on income and remove the cap on the benefits. That way we can have both a safety net insurance program subsidized and run by the Federalis, it wont destroy Medicare, and still have our own private health insurance system. This would make the Democrats look stupid, IMO, and take the steam out of half of Biden's campaign.
5) Trump should get his supporters to highlight the Marxism of the Democratic Party without doing it himself so much. The Dimocrats are light work now, leave it to the loyal minions to knock them down.
6) Trump needs to do a report on his tax returns by his lawyers and accountants that would be certified by his auditers to be accurate, but not releasing anything that would hurt his business or is simply no ones business. I think this will satisfy a good chunk of people who are suspicious of his refusal to release his tax returns, not everyone, but a good chunk of moderates.
7) Trump should come up with a plan to pay off the National debt by the end of his 8th year of office using tariffs, debt refinancing with lower rates, auctioning Federal land, and slashing Federal costs by freezing new hiring among civilian branches of our government. Obviously he will need to have a Republican Congress to carry this along so he needs to have some brain storming sessions with his Congressional allies as to what is realistically achievable.
Those are a few things Trump can do to blow Biden even further out of the water.
But Trump can polish his campaign with the following tactical adjustments.
1) Not everyone voting for Biden really *wants* Biden, they are just terrified of Trump. And why? Some think he is an ally of Putin, is corrupt and some think he is a genuine idiot. These morons are not reachable. But some people just dont like Trumps brashness and style. Trump could compliment his justifiable strike-back tweets with conciliatory tweets to people like victims of crime in Democratic cities and people displaced by H1-b visa holders. Just more balance between slamming his fist on opponents noses vrs conciliatory pats on the back to people he plans to champion in his next term can soften his image some and go a very long way.
2) While I think Trump has done a great job with the economy and the COVID19 policies, voters are of the 'Whathaveyoudoneformelately' tribe and Trumps best moves are way back in time, whole months ago, lol. So Trump needs to try to put the spotlight on good things that are happening NOW. Like the continued fall in COVID19 deaths/million, and the hospitalization rate which I think is also much more of a tiny blip than a catastrophe. He needs to get people rehired and small businesses reopening ASAP, and I think he is doing really good so far, but there is a perception that the V recovery is collapsing which is not true. He needs to get some make work, shovel ready jobs out there to get people employed with money in their pockets to spend at the reopened businesses. Then chat up the lowering unemployment rate till the cows wander home.
3) Trump needs to hold a rally each weekend somewhere. These rallies are very valuable in getting contact info for volunteers, but to make them appear to be safer, and would be in actuality IMO, do out door rallies instead of indoor rallies.
4) Trump should counter-punch the Medicare for all of Bidens with a Medicaid for all as an insurance policy. Use existing Medicaid, turn into a semi government insurance program, and price the policies with the average of a national level insurance pool (nationalize the ACA state pools) and prorate the coverage based on income and remove the cap on the benefits. That way we can have both a safety net insurance program subsidized and run by the Federalis, it wont destroy Medicare, and still have our own private health insurance system. This would make the Democrats look stupid, IMO, and take the steam out of half of Biden's campaign.
5) Trump should get his supporters to highlight the Marxism of the Democratic Party without doing it himself so much. The Dimocrats are light work now, leave it to the loyal minions to knock them down.
6) Trump needs to do a report on his tax returns by his lawyers and accountants that would be certified by his auditers to be accurate, but not releasing anything that would hurt his business or is simply no ones business. I think this will satisfy a good chunk of people who are suspicious of his refusal to release his tax returns, not everyone, but a good chunk of moderates.
7) Trump should come up with a plan to pay off the National debt by the end of his 8th year of office using tariffs, debt refinancing with lower rates, auctioning Federal land, and slashing Federal costs by freezing new hiring among civilian branches of our government. Obviously he will need to have a Republican Congress to carry this along so he needs to have some brain storming sessions with his Congressional allies as to what is realistically achievable.
Those are a few things Trump can do to blow Biden even further out of the water.