GOP Struggles to Define Biden

Associated Press: “The conservatives’ relentless focus on culture wars rather than the new president highlights both their strategy for regaining power in Washington and their challenge in doing so. Unlike previous Democratic leaders, Biden himself simply isn’t proving to be an easy target or animating figure for the GOP base, prompting Republicans to turn to the kind of cultural issues the party has used to cast Democrats as elitist and out of touch with average Americans.”

“The challenge is a continuation of the 2020 campaign, when then-President Trump struggled to land a consistent attack on Biden. The branding of Biden as ‘sleepy’ never stuck in the same way as Trump’s derision of Hillary Clinton as ‘crooked’ in 2016. Other GOP efforts to define Biden as a radical or to attack his mental acuity also didn’t resonate.”