Trump believes the answer to his campaign's message weakness is to declare all-out war on Biden’s former boss, GabrielSherman reports—but Republicans see the president's Obama strategy as a “big risk”
tweeted a GIF of the Death Star firing its planet-destroying laser to announce the start of the campaign’s war onParscale’s choice of pop-culture ephemera was widely mocked. But the meme’s biggest weakness was that it bore no resemblance to the campaign’s messaging, which so far has been all over the place.
According to sources, Trump believes the answer to the message weakness is to declare all-out war on Biden’s former boss:“Trump knows Biden is only popular because he was Obama’s V.P.,” a prominent Republican told me. Which is why, a few days after Parscale’s Death Star tweet, Trump accused Obama of unnamed crimes under the umbrella of “Obamagate.” “Obama is going to be on the campaign trail in a big way. He’s the most popular Democrat of the past four decades.
But Trump’s targeting of Obama has been causing consternation among Republicans, who fear he is pursuing a base-incitement strategy when he needs to appeal to crucial suburban voters in must-win battleground states. “Going after Obama is a big risk,” a former West Wing official said. “Obama is seen as trustworthy and reasonable. If you attack him and people don’t buy it, then you have a huge swing and a miss in front of the entire country.
Trump has been leaning on powerful Republicans to join his war on Obama, sources told me. Last Thursday, Trump tweeted at Senate Judiciary chair’s unmasking and the origin of the Russia probe. Graham rejected the request. “Trump thinks Lindsey isn’t doing anything on Flynn,” a former White House official said. According to the former official, Trump recently asked prominent allies to tweet negative things about Graham, and he has been complaining that Graham is a hanger-on.
Trump’s Obama preoccupation is likely to grow harder to let go of. Obama is breaking his postpresidential silence and goading Trump. On a private call with Democrats earlier this month, Obama deemed Trump’s COVID-19 response a “chaotic disaster.” During a virtual graduation ceremony last weekend, Obama told students: “This pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they’re doing.
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