Dan Pfeiffer: “For a long time, Republican politicians and political operatives understood that Fox News and the rest of the Right Wing media were propaganda operations designed to excite the base and damage the opposition. They were in on the joke. But in the Trump era, most of them followed the former President down the rabbit hole. They stopped getting their news from legitimate sources and live entirely inside the MAGA media bubble. They turn on Fox and think it’s a window instead of a mirror. They believe voters — the vast majority of whom could not find Fox on their cable package — see the world the same way they do.”
“They are shocked when the real Joe Biden appears. Sure, he looks a little older than he used to, but he is still sharp and full of fight. Marjorie Taylor Greene seemed legitimately shocked when Biden didn’t collapse on stage while she tried to engage him on border issues.”
“Biden’s age is still a legitimate concern for voters. One speech does not make it go away. Reassuring them will be a theme of the entire campaign, but Trump and the Republicans are overplaying their hand.”
