{UAH} MSNBC IS AT IT AGAIN HUH !!!!!

MSNBC talking heads claim a Joe Biden nomination is Trump's 'worst nightmare'

by Becket Adams

 | April 08, 2020 06:12 PM

President Trump is going to get another four years in the White House, isn't he?

The 2020 presidential election is starting to mirror the 2016 election in even the small details, including the parade of supposed experts in news media confidently predicting the Democratic establishment’s odds of electoral success in the fall.

On Wednesday, after Sen. Bernie Sanders dropped out of the 2020 Democratic primary, NBC News anchor Andrea Mitchell and her guests all agreed that the Vermont lawmaker’s decision represents the “worst-case” scenario for Trump. Why? Because it means the president now has to run against his “nightmare” opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden.

These people are out of their minds if they think this White House is more afraid of a candidate with a still-undefined campaign message than the left-wing populist with a fervently fanatic fan base.

 

Former Obama campaign manager Jim Messina went first, saying Wednesday on MSNBC that Biden all but formally winning the Democratic nomination is Trump’s “worst nightmare.”

“The Ukraine stuff,” Messina said, “everything else [Trump has] been doing for the past year and a half has been trying to make sure Joe Biden is not his opponent, and this morning it is clear Joe Biden will be his opponent, which is the best-case scenario for the Democrats.”

Surely Messina does not actually believe that Trump and his campaign’s laser-like focus on Biden’s questionable overseas dealings has been all about the 2020 Democratic primary. Surely Messina is not that short-sighted. You'd better believe that Ukraine stuff is going to feature prominently in the general election, this time with the general electorate more familiar than ever with the particulars.

The Obama campaign alumnus continued, arguing that Sanders dropping out of the primary, “allows the two big powers in the Democratic party, Barack, and in some ways, as importantly, Michelle Obama, to come off the sidelines and get involved.”

Wait – what? Surely Messina is aware that Barack and Michelle Obama campaigned for failed two-time presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016. How did that work out?

Andrea Mitchell agreed with Messina, telling her guests, including New York Times reporter Peter Baker, that Sanders dropping out is “is the worst-case scenario for President Trump.”

However, Mitchell added, Trump “does have a megaphone and a platform here with these daily briefings, which no matter how badly the administration is being criticized … he still is gaining a lot of traction and shutting out, certainly shutting out Joe Biden and his campaign efforts since Super Tuesday.”

Well, yes. There is the fact that the president is, well, the president. There is also the fact that Biden has been confined to broadcasting his campaign from his home thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking of which, 44% of voters believe Trump is better suited to lead the United States during the coronavirus crisis than Biden, who captured only 36% of support, according to a recent Politico/Morning Consult survey.

Look, what I am saying is that Biden has an enormous uphill battle ahead of him. He is trapped in his basement while trying to campaign during a pandemic against an incumbent populist president. Trump has a clearly defined doctrine, whereas Biden, like Clinton in 2016, struggles to explain his purpose for running. Sanders did not have that problem. Speaking of which, Biden will have to contend also with a somewhat fractured party. It is an open question whether Sanders’s supporters will stay home on Election Day.

Anyone who says Biden’s ascent to the nomination is a “nightmare” or a “worst-case” scenario for Trump, who has shown already he can defeat a candidate with no clearly defined campaign message, has no idea what he or she is saying.

We saw this sort of thing in 2016. Members of the news media got essentially everything about the election wrong. Based on the discussion Wednesday at MSNBC, 2020 could be more of the same.

EM         -> { Trump for 2020 }

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