Steve Holland at Reuters has seen what Trump has planned as his ‘counter-programming’, while the DNC takes hours of prime-time and political attention.
Trump’s goal, writes Holland, by campaigning this week is to limit the damage to his status of the DNC. National interviews and many in the field-successful states are already showing him in deep trouble.
With visits to four states planned, he plans to inject himself as often as possible into the carefully choreographed Joe Biden plans this week.
Like Oshkosh, Trump will travel to Mankato, Minnesota on Monday, Yuma, Arizona, and Biden’s hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday. Vice President Mike Pence is also out and about.
Trump will push a law-and-order theme in Minnesota, the state where the death of George Floyd gave renewed national impetus to the Black Lives Matter movement.
In Wisconsin, Trump will talk about job growth and trade. In Arizona, the president will emphasize border security and its tough-on-immigration stance.
The main event will be on Thursday in Scranton, the same day that Biden accepts his party’s nomination. An aide said Trump’s speech in Scranton would “check Joe Biden’s four decades in public life” and contrast his record with Trump’s over the past three and a half years.
Some of the events of the Trump campaign are being held in airport hangars with crowds ranging from 1,000 to 3,000 who will be sitting at a social distance from each other.
While Trump is on the move, his re-election has prompted a sweeping digital ad purchase that could reach $ 10 million, a campaign official said.
Trump’s campaign will take over the YouTube banner for 96 hours, starting on Tuesday, and will place ads on the home pages of the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and FoxNews.com.
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