Vice President Pence on Friday issued the 2020 election as a choice between “freedom and opportunity” or “socialism and decadence”, delivering a clear signal of the Trump campaign message as he prepares for the final months before Day of the elections.
Pence aggressively tried to link the alleged Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden
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“It is not so much whether the United States will be more conservative or more liberal, more republican or democratic, more red or blue. It is whether the United States remains the United States, “Pence said in Wisconsin, framing the upcoming election as a” two-way “vote that will determine the country’s destiny.
“Joe Biden would put the United States on the path of socialism and decline,” Pence told the crowd at Ripon College, describing the Democratic candidate and former vice president as “a Trojan horse for a radical agenda.”
Pence delivered his speech in Ripon, Wisconsin, the birthplace of the Republican Party in 1854, and was strongly promoted by the campaign on Friday morning.
The Trump campaign, which was rocked earlier this week, has struggled to deliver a lasting blow against Biden, testing various lines of attack in the weeks since he became the alleged nominee.
They have taken advantage of their verbal errors to question their mental acuity; the president labeled him “Sleepy Joe” and suggested that he lacks the stamina for the job; and they have attempted to highlight some of their controversial political positions during their decades in government.
But the campaign now seems to have settled on a unified message by trying to paint Biden as a puppet for the more progressive wing of the Democratic Party.
Pence warned Friday that Biden would be little more than an “auto pen” president who would enact socialized medicine. He insisted on the unit’s agenda presented by Biden’s campaign earlier this month, and suggested that the former vice president had already yielded to Sanders and his acolytes.
“I thought Joe Biden won the Democratic primary, but looking at his unity agenda, it seems to me that Bernie won,” Pence joked.
Pence used his comments to criticize Biden’s positions on immigration, climate change, and the economy, while also accusing Biden of expressing support for the movement “underfinancing the police,” although Biden expressly expressed opposition to the effort to withdraw funds from the police departments.
The campaign has taken advantage of comments Biden made in a recent interview where he said he supports diverting some funds to social services. Biden also said he supports conditioning federal dollars on police departments that implement reforms.
“Joe Biden would weaken the thin blue line that separates us from chaos,” Pence said. “He won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America.”
The vice president’s speech amounted to a more coherent and organized delivery than President Trump
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It is unclear whether attempts to paint Biden as a radical will be enough to change the race for Trump. This week’s polls showed that a solid majority of Americans disapprove of the president’s handling of the pandemic that has killed nearly 140,000 people in the United States and left millions of people out of work, while cases in various states continue to rise.
In Wisconsin, one of the top 2020 battlefield states, Biden leads Trump by 6 percentage points, according to an average of polls conducted by RealClearPolitics. Biden also leads Trump in other key key states, as well as nationally.
Pence briefly outlined the Trump administration’s efforts to tackle the coronavirus on Friday, branding the president’s response as “unprecedented” despite intense scrutiny over his rhetoric and handling of the virus.
His speech came as several states are seeing dangerous waves in the cases. The United States set a record Thursday with more than 75,600 new cases in a single day.
Pence, who heads the White House coronavirus task force, said the administration would work 24 hours a day to ensure that states, hospitals and health workers have the supplies they need to address the increase in infections.
“We are meeting with American compassion and resolve at the moment and we are also opening the United States again,” he said.
Pence’s concluding remarks, while intended to highlight that Trump was the right man to return the country to prosperity, nodded at the difficulty the campaign may have had in convincing the public that the administration deserves another four years given the litany of crisis.
“With President Donald Trump in the White House for four more years,” Pence said, “we will make the United States great again. Again.”
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