Trump takes underdog role in campaign against Biden

The Hill logoPresident Trump’s campaign is heading into the reelection battle against former Vice President Joe Biden as an underdog, a role the campaign embraced in 2016 and hopes to capitalize on once again in 2020.

The White House has retooled its media strategy, and the campaign is going up early with ads casting Trump as the “comeback” president who will lead the U.S. economy to new heights after the coronavirus-induced meltdown.

The Trump campaign will soon turn its attention to tearing down Biden, casting him as complicit in China’s rise as a global superpower and raising doubts about the former vice president’s fitness for office. A pro-Trump outside group is planning to take up the allegation of sexual assault made by a former Senate staffer against Biden, a charge the former Delaware senator has vehemently denied. Continue reading.