The 2020 campaign for president has been surprisingly empty of substance since Joe Biden became the nominee. The Republicans notably didn’t even bother updating their party platform. Donald Trump’s team has spent many of the last days of the campaign making personal attacks, focused on the alleged financial corruption of the Biden family. Joe Biden has a simulation of Elizabeth Warren’s endless “plans.” But he doesn’t talk about them in any detail. At the last debate, we got a glimpse of why. Joe Biden couldn’t describe what a “public option” health-care plan was, the very thing he wants to add to Obamacare, and which he is now calling Bidencare.
If there is one electoral concern that is going to determine the result of the election, it will be the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Democrats and Republicans rate Donald Trump’s response as poor. Some of Biden’s most effective moments in the debates came when he made the case that Donald Trump said foolish things at the start of the crisis.
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