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@inthehands my theory is that the press just regurgitates what the candidates say.

They don’t run a story saying “Biden is old”, they run “‘Biden is old’, Trump says”.

Trump can’t run on his positive qualities; he has no good ideas, no qualifications, and no historical record to point to. All he can do is try to make his opponent look worse than him.

Harris, on the other hand, has plenty of positives. Lots of policy, lots of qualifications, lots of history. Harris doesn’t need to spend her time levying insults at Trump. Since she’s not talking about how old he is, the newspapers aren’t writing articles about her talking about how old he is.

I don’t know if it’ll be a winning strategy, and it seems like some democratic politician somewhere should be making coments go generate those headlines… but clearly they’ve decided not to.