In the latest attempt to make the president appear to have a beating heart, Joe Biden’s campaign has supplied him and his surrogates a joke to repeat. It goes like this: Americans are poorer now— and so is Donald Trump!
Get it?!
I promise you that’s not a mischaracterization of the absolute knee-slapper Biden and Co. have been relaying in recent days to donors and the media. To be sure, here’s how it landed last week, as reported by The Independent:
Mr Biden, who was on the second day of a three-day trip to several Western states, told attendees at the campaign event that a person had approached him to talk about a high debt burden.
‘Just the other day this defeated looking man came up to me and said: ‘Mr. President I need your help. I’m in crushing debt. I’m completely wiped out,’’ he said.
After a moment, Mr Biden delivered the punchline, telling the crowd that he had responded: ‘Donald, I’m sorry. I can’t help you.’
The fundraiser attendees, who numbered roughly 100, erupted into laughs.
The comedy continued in a campaign email blast last week referring to Trump as “Broke Don” and rhetorically asking if “trailing your opponent in cash on hand by nearly 4 to 1 and hitting up donors to help cover your own personal debts instead of funding your campaign [is] a winning formula for November.”
The Washington Post reported Tuesday the “new riff” is an attempt by Biden “to reverse the
