Karma: Joe Bidens New Campaign Ad Attacking President Trump on China Backfires Spectacularly Posted at 4:30 pm on April 21, 2020 by Sister Toldjah
Democratic presidential candidate former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden arrives to speak to local residents during a bus tour stop at Waters Edge Nature Center, Monday, Dec. 2, 2019, in Algona, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
A little over a week after the Trump campaign released a hard- hitting ad blasting Joe Biden for his and his son Hunters troubling China ties, the Biden campaign has responded by relea sing one of their own, which makes some dubious media-driven claims about Trumps response to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak and his complicated relationship with Chinas president Xi Jinping:
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But unfortunately for Joe Biden, the ad has backfired spectacularly. Not just with the conservatives and Republicans who would understandably question whats being alleged in the ad, but also among www.foxnews.com/media/biden-campaign- backlash-xenophobic-attack-ad-trump-china">Democrats who are criticizing him by using the same xenophobic attack line Biden himself used on Trump after he implemented China travel restrictions in late January:
The ad, while praised among Biden supporters, was widely-criticized among left-leaning journalists and Twitter users.
The Intercept editor Glenn Greenwald suggested that the Democrats who previously denounced Trumps rhetoric towards China as racist are now cheering on the same sentiment.
Trumps response to COVID-19 has been inept and self-serving, but wow this is some xenophobic messaging
progressive journalist Walker Bragman reacted.
Its exhausting how people are praising a dog-whistling ad that leans on yellow peril narratives but I guess thats what you have to do when your candidate has no intention of fixing the structural problems that got us into this mess to begin with, Vulture senior writer E. Alex Jung wrote.
Wow @JoeBiden. Already trying to out-Trump Trump. This kind of fearmongering is causing violent attacks on Asian Americans. If you are trying to reform your past history of racist policymaking, like your 1994 crime bill, you had better do some homework. This aint it, civil rights lawyer Cecelia Wang tweeted.
Theres plenty more where that came from, too:
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