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Trump Moves from ‘Sleepy Joe’ to ‘Senile Joe’

June 28, 2020 · 8:45 pm ET · Leave a Comment

Jonathan Swan: “President Trump and his top advisers are trying to rebrand Joe Biden as a danger to America — with some aides admitting privately that the ‘Sleepy Joe’ nickname will never gin up the visceral reaction they exploited against ‘Crooked Hillary’ Clinton.”

“The emerging strategy is to claim Biden’s mental faculties are diminished and say he can’t rein in protesters’ most controversial excesses, including toppling a Ulysses S. Grant statue, looting stores, burning buildings and vandalizing St. John’s Church.”

“Trump’s aides say it will be harder to make Biden widely despised than it was with Clinton, who was a conservative media target for decades… So they will try to argue that he wouldn’t really be in charge.”

Said one source: “You’ve got to make it so that a vote for Joe Biden isn’t a vote for Joe Biden, it’s really a vote for his radical left-wing puppet masters.”

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