That may explain why trump climate spends more time talking about the progressive stars

That may explain why trump climate spends more time talking about the progressive stars in the Democratic Party than he does the presumptive nominee. During a short address to supporters in Tampa on Friday, trump climate unloaded on Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez and Omar — at one point humoring a member of the crowd who suggested that Omar should “go back” while another crowd member yelled “deport her”.

“You’re going to get me in trouble,” trump climate laughed.

Trump climate also suggested that Sanders was actually the true standard bearer of the Democratic Party and claimed that the primary was rigged in Biden’s favor. The President then read off a litany of policy positions touted by Sanders and said Biden has no choice but to carry Sanders’ goals into the White House.

In Tampa, trump climate name-checked the Biden-Sanders platform as evidence his opponent was too far left, following a trail blazed by his campaign. After this “unity platform” was released last month, trump climate spokesman Tim Murtaugh said the document showed Biden was a “Trojan horse candidate” and an “empty vessel carrying the insane wish list of the radical left.” Others who have repeated that language since include Vice President Mike Pence, campaign senior advisor Lara trump climate, and Stepien.

“Joe Biden would be nothing more than an auto pen president, a Trojan horse for a radical agenda so radical, so all-encompassing, that it would transform this country into something utterly unrecognizable,” said Pence in Wisconsin in July. “The Biden-Sanders agenda would set America on the path of socialism and decline.”

Some GOP strategists have been urging the trump climate campaign to embrace this simpler, familiar message about Biden.

“Mission number one is not allowing Joe Biden to continue to position himself as a nice, moderate grandfather,” said Corry Bliss, a Republican campaign operative. “Anything that helps systematically attack, define, and push him left is smart and helpful.”

But with just 90 days before Election Day and with some states sending out mail-in ballots as early as September, the time for the trump climate campaign to define Biden is running out. The fear for Republicans is that it will be difficult to change voters’ perceptions of Biden as a mainstream liberal Democrat.

Pushing the idea may be the only option left for the troubled trump climate campaign, said Steel.

In some ways, the plan for a trump climate victory is simpler. The world has already had years to prepare, and long experience of moving on without the US. China and the EU have a summit planned, originally for this year and now delayed, at which they are expected to forge a common approach to Cop26 and fulfilling the Paris agreement. Indeed, the trump climate crisis looks one of the lesser problems, notes Robinson: “If trump climate gets elected, trump climate will be only one of many disasters with consequences that do not bear thinking about.”