Joe Biden wins the US election, here are 5 strategies to beat Donald Trump

KOMPAS.com – It is confirmed that Joe Biden will be elected President of the United States to replace Donald Trump after winning 290 electoral votes.

His electoral vote count exceeds the minimum threshold to win the contest, which is 270 electoral votes in 50 United States states.

Quoted Kompas.com, On Sunday (8/11/2020), Joe Biden’s victory was reported by renowned US media as CNN, NBC News, and CBS News.

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are moving forward to become the United States presidential candidates (candidates) and vice presidential candidates (cawapres) representing the Democratic Party. Meanwhile, his opponents are incumbent Donald Trump and Republican Mike Pence.

How is Joe Biden’s strategy to beat Donald Trump?

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1. Address the working class

Last year, when Biden laid the groundwork for his campaign, advisers like his close friend and strategist Mike Donilon focused on white working-class voters as a critical bloc.

They are voters, mostly from industrialized countries in the Midwest, many of whom are union members, who have been staunch Democrats for years, voting in 2012 for Obama.

But they flocked to Trump in 2016, lured by protectionist trade policies and hard-line stances on immigration.

Unlike Democrats who believe that chasing voters is a waste of time and that the party should devote its energies to expanding voters by mobilizing youth and voters of color.

But whites without a college education make up the majority of voters in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Therefore, it is the key for anyone who wants to become president.

While the incumbent won the majority of white men in Michigan (60 percent), Pennsylvania (60 percent) and Wisconsin (57 percent), margins fell slightly compared to 2016, according to a survey by Edison Research.

Overall, about 8 percent of Trump voters in 2016 turned to Biden, according to Edison Research. By contrast, 4 percent of voters who voted for Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016 turned to Trump. Biden was also able to win 62 percent of the people who voted for third-party candidates four years ago.

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2. Increase unaffected voters

In addition to bringing unaffected voters back, Biden’s goal is to boost turnout in urban and suburban areas.

She was helped by the overwhelming enthusiasm to oust Trump from office, especially among college-educated women. In an Edison Research exit poll, 67 percent of Biden voters said they voted against Trump, not Democrats.

For suburban voters, Biden is based in part on his desire to appear normal in Washington.

“Trump has created a level of political fatigue that we have never felt before. We just want (him) to shut up and go, ”said Patty Leitzel, a retired mortgage loan officer who helps Biden in Macomb County, Michigan.

Another distinguishing factor is the corona virus pandemic. At first, the Biden campaign made the decision to listen to scientific experts and model the correct behavior. Starting with social distancing and wearing a mask. He still did so despite frequent taunts from Trump.

Another reason is to convince the elderly that he can be trusted to protect his family.

Just weeks before Election Day, Trump was hospitalized with Covid-19. Although he recovered quickly, the incident hurt him in the eyes of voters and older people.

“Covid is driving a lot of Trump supporters to Biden,” said Sharon Holle, who is a member of Biden’s leadership board in the state of Iowa. People were angry and disgusted that he refused to listen to experts.

An Edison Research poll shows that half of American voters believe it is more important to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, even if it damages the economy.

Meanwhile, four in 10 voters said they rated America’s efforts to contain the virus very badly.

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3. Target black voters

At the same time, Biden’s campaign team knew they had to do more to drive black voter turnout. These are the most loyal voters in the Democratic Party.

In recent weeks, Biden’s campaign has morphed into voting events in major metropolitan areas in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

It finally worked. Election officials in Detroit say turnout is the highest in 20 or 30 years. Participation also increased during 2016 in Milwaukee and Philadelphia.

This is not the first time. In February, as Biden struggled through poor results in the nomination races in Iowa and New Hampshire, black voters in South Carolina gave him a resounding victory and steered him toward the nomination.

Black voters were motivated not only by a pandemic that disproportionately affected them, but by a national protest against racism that began with the police murder of Floyd, a black man, in Minneapolis.

Along the way, Biden spoke often about his closeness to Obama. Kamala Harris, the first black woman to join a major party, helped signal to black Americans that their concerns would be heard in her administration.

An Edison Research exit poll showed Trump won 47 percent of Florida Hispanics, 12 points more than in 2016; 40 percent of Hispanics in Texas, 6 points higher; and 36 percent of Hispanics in Arizona, 5 points higher.

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4. Return to Arizona

Democrats perfect Arizona’s Latino youth as a very promising group to target voters.

Arizona last endorsed a Democratic president in 1996. Arizona became a high-level priority when Biden’s campaign hired Jen O’Malley Dillon as its new campaign manager in March, after Biden won the majority of nominations from the Democratic Party.

He knows Southwest well, having served on the Texas-based Beto O’Rourke presidential candidacy and as a consultant for Biden’s Nevada campaign.

Campaigning in Arizona is much easier than in other increasingly competitive states like North Carolina and Texas.

The campaign also saw an opportunity to capitalize on Trump’s bitter feud with the late Senator John McCain, a Republican icon in Arizona.

Biden and McCain have a friendship that dates back decades together in the Senate. That helped Democrats win the support they coveted from McCain’s widow, Cindy.

An Arizona exit poll shows that Biden attracts a majority of independent voters and 10 percent of Republicans.

“This is clearly having an impact on the older, more traditional Republican bodyguard,” said Chad Campbell, a Democratic strategist in Phoenix, of supporting Cindy McCain.

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5. Mob-Suasion Strategy (persuade the masses)

Biden’s staff are forced to deviate from the traditional model of persuading voters to support their candidates and then, at the last stage, mobilizing them to vote.

Now they have to do both at the same time, something the campaign has called a “mafia.”

“You have this equation where you cajole, cajole, cajole, and then make a sound. We are reversing that in this cycle, ”said a Biden campaign official.

Meanwhile, Trump has repeatedly disparaged the ballot by letter on the unsubstantiated claim that it is prone to fraud.

The result is that in some of the major states, registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans in terms of both initial mail and direct vote.