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.

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    9 months ago

    How about instead getting people excited for what has been accomplished? Focusing on crazy shit that Trump says just energized his base.

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      His base is already energized, focusing on the crazy shit is a way to point out to moderates just how scrambled Trump’s brain has become. Biden is not going to convince Trump’s base of anything, so there’s no point wasting time and resources to try.

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        The issue is that Trump is doing the same: trying to paint Biden as shit and he is decent at it. It results in moderates being apathetic to who wins so they do not turn out to vote. So it comes down to who has a more energized base. That happened in 2016. Clinton rightfully pointed out how fucking nuts Trump was and Trump did his best to make Clinton seem corrupt as fuck. Voter apathy was through the roof but Trump had the more energized base in states that mattered

        Biden is doing fine when it comes to the economy but few people seem to be seeing that. I often hear complaints about inflation and a bad job market. But the fact is that inflation went down drastically while keeping a very low unemployment rate. He is also chipping away at student debt little by little. But I often hear people complaining that few people are getting relief because each time only a few thousand people are helped. All of those are positives but I would not say they are marketed very well.

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      Because Jimmy Carter passed a shit ton of legislation but at the end of the day God Cowboy Actor won.

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          Jimmy Carter is why I have a home. Habitat for Humanity folks. Look it up, go to the first meeting, see how it works.

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        1980: “God Cowboy Actor” guy won

        2000: “Misunderestimated nuculer” guy won

        2016: “Person woman man camera TV” guy won

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        The hostages in Iran were released twenty minutes after Reagan’s inauguration speech. A couple years later his administration sold weapons to them.

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      Who exactly is that going to turn?

      The only people interested in the Biden administration’s accomplishments are already Dem voters that would never, ever, vote for Trump. All you’re really going for is winning over a few of the less stubborn progressive voters that aren’t committed to “burn it down” as the only way forward.

      The Biden campaign needs to motivate the apathetic voter, and even the Republicans that are fed up with MAGA, though the later is mostly a lost cause if they’re still on the fence.

      So yeah, pointing out how bat shit insane Trump is, and how dangerous a 2nd term of Trump would be, is probably a sound tactic to mobilizing the apathetic voter to just try to keep Trump out of office.