A progressive group has presented five recommendations to President Biden ahead of the first presidential debate of the general election season on Thursday.
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) sent Biden a debate memo outlining the group’s suggestions for the president to be successful in confronting former President Trump.
The group’s main recommendation is that Bident “create dramatic confrontations on popular economic issues,” according to the memo obtained by The Hill.
“In a political world centered on vibrations, the trick to advancing politics is to create confrontations on popular issues – creating drama-filled debate moments that are well publicized,” the memo said, noting that a strong moment will “win on vibrations.” ” and “winning in politics”.
Political manual reported for the first time the memo.
The committee also focused on “dramatic conflicts” in the upcoming recommendation, suggesting Biden drew the former president into them, positioning Trump against his own past comments or those of his Republican allies.
The group posited that the former president is likely to disavow unpopular views on the debate stage — even if they are beliefs his potential vice presidential picks have held or comments he has previously made — if Biden draws attention to the conflicting comments, then Trump will be “you’re more likely to fumble the ball, appear unprincipled, and create a ‘moment’ that goes viral.”
The committee also suggested that Biden make space for his “forward-looking vision”, contrasting the two candidates’ past and current actions in office and comparing what the future would be like under each of them.
Linking Social Security cuts to taxing the wealthy has already proven to be an advantageous strategy for Biden, the group argued. He suggested that Biden keep that language on the debate stage as well.
“The reason to continue to merge Social Security and tax the rich as one issue is that Trump cannot claim to equalize that position. He must support renewing Trump’s tax cuts for billionaires, and that inherently means draining money that ultimately could be used to protect Social Security,” the memo said.
The commission’s final advice to Biden was to frame progress in microeconomic terms, as opposed to macroeconomic terms.
Research from PCCC and Data For Progress showed that people concerned about the economy worry about issues “that impact their household budgets, rather than macroeconomic numbers like GDP,” according to the memo.
Biden and Trump will face off in the first presidential debate on Thursday at 9 p.m. CNN is hosting the debate in Atlanta, Georgia, moderated by Dana Bash and Jake Tapper. The two candidates have been preparing their attacks and political positions for the debate in recent days.
Laura Kelly contributed reporting.
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