A CNN reporter used profane language during a live report Tuesday about President Biden’s campaign strategy as his campaign looks ahead to a potential general election showdown with former President Trump.
“President Biden himself personally instructed at some of his top campaign aides to be even more aggressive in highlighting some of President Trump‘s more inflammatory and wild comments,” CNN reporter MJ Lee said live on CNN. “We‘re told that the thrust of the president‘s direction was to significantly ramp up the campaign‘s efforts to highlight the crazy shit that Trump says in public.”
Lee noted what she said the Biden campaign sees as “the black and white contrast” between the president and Trump.
Her “crazy shit” language is attributable to the sources who spoke with CNN about Biden’s direction to his campaign, as highlighted in a story she published on CNN.com.
It’s also largely what they did in 2020. There’s a difference between making people say “hah, wow, he’s pretty out there with the gaffes”, and saying “do you remember when he was president? He’s worse now”.
As a strategy, if you’re the sort whose going to be impressed with Bidens policy wins, you’re already going to be voting. So driving turn out in people who think trump is potentially an existential threat is gonna be your biggest win, like in '20.