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Joe Biden faces the electorate for the first time, will it work? 5 findings
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden responded to voter questions on the CNN news channel for the first time in the hot phase of the election campaign on Thursday. Five takeaways from the 75-minute performance near Scranton, Pennsylvania.
The starting point was special: The town hall meeting, which CNN news channel hosted with Joe Biden on Thursday, took place outside at a ballpark near Scranton, Pennsylvania. Most of the 100 or so listeners sat in their cars, some distance from the stage where Biden answered questions from the audience.
Viewers watch Biden’s appearance on television from their cars. Image: keystone
Biden gives the populists
Maybe it was the family environment (Biden spent the first ten years of his life in Scranton), maybe the Democrat took the advice of his party friends seriously: On Thursday, Joe Biden sounded like an economic populist, a fighter for the middle class and the working class. Trump, on the other hand, is only interested in Wall Street, as if stock prices are the most important thing in the world, Biden said. Therefore, he sees this election campaign as a contrast between Scranton, his birthplace, and Park Avenue, the elegant address in New York City, which also houses a Trump building.
Biden is stable, but does not go into details
Yes, Biden is 77 years old and gets tangled up every now and then or loses the thread. But when he talks about the fight against the coronavirus or his environmental plans, he sounds like a politician who knows what he is talking about. That may sound old-fashioned, but it’s a striking contrast to the incumbent president: The note said that Biden constantly reads his responses on a piece of paper or on a tele-message. However, it was also noted that Biden avoided explaining his plans in detail – he said in each case that you could read this online as if he didn’t want to bore the audience. That’s something to the mill of the political opponent who claims that Biden has no idea what he is really advocating for.
Biden’s hat temperament
Trump can call his opponent “Sleepy Joe,” just as the president did on Thursday during an election campaign in the state of Wisconsin. But Biden proved the same day that he is not sound asleep. And that can show feelings. When he spoke of his son Beau, who died of cancer, he cried. And when he talked about how television commentators despised him for not having a degree from an elite university (“Ivy League University”), he seemed genuinely outraged. “Who the hell thinks it takes an Ivy League title to be president,” he thundered, to the delight of about 100 people in the audience. (The last president without a degree from an elite university was Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.) The fact that CNN host Anderson Cooper graduated from Yale University, one of America’s top universities, was just the icing on the cake.
Biden speaks directly to Trump’s opponents
Biden said (once again) that his ultimate goal as president is to reconcile the country, a country that is deeply divided after Donald Trump’s four years in the White House. He said: Although he was running for a Democrat, he wanted to be president of “the whole nation.” In his career as a politician, first as a senator (1973 to 2009), then as Vice President Barack Obama (2009 to 2017), he learned to unite Democrats and Republicans. “I’m pretty good at it,” Biden said.
Biden benefits from careful questions from journalists
It’s true: Biden is in a better position than his opponent Donald Trump because he doesn’t have to defend himself against current government mistakes in the crown crisis. But that doesn’t justify journalists handling it with little care. Biden is a professional politician, in business for 50 years, and in his long career he has provided enough material for critical questions: questions about job references, questions about his health, questions about his advisers. Unfortunately, CNN host Anderson Cooper, who can stubbornly ask if he wants to, didn’t regularly pinch Biden on Thursday. The Democrat benefited from this; At the latest, when you have to face questions from Chris Wallace (Fox News Channel) in the first television debate between the two presidential candidates in less than two weeks, this grace period is over.
