NEW: The people Biden has surrounded himself with as his campaign approaches the finish line are the same ones helping him deflect an October opposition onslaught that's pretty much guaranteed to spill into his presidency — should he win. by @TinaSfon ($) businessinsider.com/biden-crisis-s…
Mud-slinging personal politics is the price of admission in the Trump era, and the Democratic nominee is responding to the nonstop attacks by leaning on a team of veteran operatives & experts in crisis messaging and strategy steeped in experience from the Clinton and Obama years.
They are plenty busy. The Trump campaign, outside advocates, and conservative media allies have closed 2020 going after Biden w/ spurious, half-baked claims that seek to tie the former Democratic VP to corruption allegations surrounding his 50-year-old son Hunter Biden.
Rather than point-by-point respond to the charges, Team Biden has opted for another playbook. They're mounting aggressive pre-buttals, w/ the candidate, his campaign & an expanding network of surrogates expressing open contempt toward anyone taking the, um, malarky, seriously.
"What the Biden campaign & Joe Biden himself have done is they've dealt with it directly but they give Trump — I would say the expression is — the back of their hand," said Lanny Davis, who helped Clinton's WH navigate GOP-fueled attacks that led to the president's impeachment.
Biden's response team is led by Ron Klain, Anita Dunn, Bob Bauer & Steve Ricchetti. These aren't just any political operatives. Each has decades of DC experience w/ battle scars from previous scandals & pseudo-scandals that damaged their bosses & tarnished the Democratic party.
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