Donald Trump’s campaign against Joe Biden is on ice for coronavirus crisis

Donald Trump’s campaign against Joe Biden is on ice for coronavirus crisis and key backers who were going to attack the Democrat say they can’t run ads until it’s over

  • President Trump’s re-election campaign is not running any ads against Joe Biden during the coronavirus crisis 
  • Other allies of Trump told Politico this week that they were also not running attack ads against the ex-veep
  • Normally this would be the time to hit Biden hard as he’s practically locked up the nomination but hasn’t unified the Democratic Party 
  • Instead, Trump will occasionally hit him on Twitter, but instead has refocused his re-election effort by acting presidential in a time of crisis 
  • Meanwhile, Biden is doing things that present him as presidential as well, as he’s assembled a coronavirus task force and spoken on the issue  
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The coronavirus crisis has iced any plans that President Trump and his allies had to crush Joe Biden with campaign ads before he’s fully locked up the nomination. 

The official Trump campaign is not running any ads against Biden right now, a spokesperson confirmed to DailyMail.com. 

Other groups that planned to hit the former vice president over the head have paused those plans. 

With President Trump’s campaign not running any attack ads against Democrat Joe Biden he’s had to campaign for re-election by acting presidential 

The current coronavirus crisis is sparing Joe Biden from being the focus of attack ads from President Trump's campaign and from Trump's allies, all who have more money than Biden

The current coronavirus crisis is sparing Joe Biden from being the focus of attack ads from President Trump’s campaign and from Trump’s allies, all who have more money than Biden 

‘The response to the coronavirus has pushed the whole election off the front page,’ Club for Growth President David McIntosh said to Politico, telling the news organization that his group also wasn’t currently running ads. ‘And it will restart and readjust once the immediate crisis is over.’  

This would have been a ripe time to start damaging Biden, from Trump’s perspective, because he’s out-moneyed by the Republicans and he hasn’t gotten the full support of the Democratic Party, with progressive Bernie Sanders still in the race. 

The other Democrat who was running, Tulsi Gabbard, a congresswoman from Hawaii, dropped out Thursday after earning just two delegates. She endorsed Biden upon her exit. 

And while Trump has occasionally jabbed ‘Sleepy Joe’ on his Twitter account, he’s had to change his main re-election tactic from rallies and name-calling to that of being a coherent leader during a time of crisis.         

Meanwhile, the pandemic also gives Biden the chance to look presidential.  

Biden gave an address on how he would handle the coronavirus crisis last week.

Prior to that, he announced he had formed his own taskforce of medical experts to guide his advice and to keep him, campaign staff and supporters healthy. 

The former vice president hasn’t engaged with supporters in more than a week, addressing a small group of them on Super Tuesday II, after he won in Michigan – the state that represented the last, best hope that Sanders could steal back the momentum. 

Biden moved the event to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – where his campaign is headquartered – rather than holding a rally in Cleveland, Ohio.   

On Thursday, the campaign was out with a press release fact-checking some of the statements Trump had made during the White House briefing held earlier in the day. 

‘Time after time, President Trump has failed the American people through his negligent and incompetent response to a global health pandemic – squandering months as he blithely downplayed its risk,’ Biden’s Deputy Campaign Manager Kate Bedingfield said in a statement. ‘Vice President Biden has been clear-eyed throughout this crisis that we needed to listen to the scientists and experts who are telling us to take decisive action before it claims more lives and does further damage to our country.’ 

‘That’s what presidential leadership looks like. In the first, crucial weeks of this crisis it is not what we have seen from this president,’ Bedingfield also said. 

The campaign then provided reporters with a list of Trump quotes from him saying that the U.S. had it ‘totally under control’ in late January to comparing it to the flu in early March. ‘Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on,’ Trump said at the time.  

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