Trump and Biden run no-show campaigns with misplaced priorities
Zachary Faria
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The United Auto Workers strike and the political posturing surrounding it expose that both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump simply aren’t up for the job, given both their misplaced priorities and their no-show campaigns.
After Trump’s announcement that he would visit Michigan to talk to workers amid the strike, Biden felt enough pressure to leave the White House picket line to speak to union leaders. Even then, Biden could only muster enough energy for a 12-minute visit before jetting off again, backing a 40% pay raise and ignoring that his promotion of a rapid transition to electric vehicles was behind another of the union’s big complaints.
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This is par for the course for Biden. He barely campaigned in 2020, and his cognitive decline over the past three years has only gotten worse. He still hasn’t even visited East Palestine, Ohio, the site of the train derailment and environmental hazard in February, despite saying he would. And yet, he managed to find time to, as my colleague Tiana Lowe Doescher wrote, back a union that “lobbies against the taxpayers who have directly and indirectly funded them” against a “majority of consumers.”
Trump’s priorities aren’t much better. His no-show campaign has been highlighted by a canceled rally in Iowa and a brief one-hour visit to the Iowa State Fair. Now, instead of joining the Republican debate field and making his pitch to Republican voters, Trump will join Biden in pandering to a union that wants a pay raise while decreasing the number of hours workers would be working.
Trump and his team think unions are their magic bullet in 2020, just as they believed was true in 2016, when the thing that really boosted Trump over the line in states like Michigan was that his opponent was Hillary Clinton. Meanwhile, 79% of GOP primary voters in Iowa and 77% in New Hampshire are keeping their options open. In Iowa, 62% consider the debates important in evaluating GOP candidates, and 60% want candidates to meet voters face to face. In New Hampshire, those numbers are 53% and 54%, respectively.
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And yet Trump is doing neither, rubbing his refusal to debate in the face of voters by making a rare campaign stop in Michigan to pander to a strike by the UAW, which is effectively a Democratic Party organ.
Biden and Trump can barely leave their basements, and when they do, it is on behalf of a union and its extreme demands, not on everyday people and voters with concerns about the economy or any other issue. Both men are too old, and neither is up for the job, as the sparse political stunts they both call a campaign show.