Trump cranks up false, inflammatory messages to rake in campaign cash

[Daily Kos Morning Roundup]( [Abbreviated Pundit Roundup]( is a long-running series published every morning that collects essential political discussion and analysis around the internet. - [Trump cranks up false, inflammatory messages to rake in campaign cash]( Democrats say the fundraising emails falsely suggesting he could be executed were tempting more violence. The incendiary emails are part of a concerted strategy that has allowed the campaign to erase a financial lead that President Biden’s campaign had opened up in recent months, according to people close to the former president who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak for the campaign. But experts in small-dollar fundraising say the solicitations are aggressive even by the standards of Trump’s frequently hyperbolic and inflammatory language. - [Daily Kos cannot be bought. We rely on grassroots donations from our community to make ends meet. Support us by giving $3 a month.]( - [Forget conventional wisdom. Trump needs the debate more than Biden.]( The debate will show voters who has the discipline to win and be a decent president. Do not expect bursts of eloquence that will live on in history. Pay attention instead to which of these men better understands whom he needs to talk to. This will show you who has the discipline to win and be a decent president. - [Biden Is the Candidate Who Stands for Change in This Election]( The oldest-ever President has been a groundbreaking leader. The debate gives him a chance to get that message across. Historically, polls conducted in the spring have been a poor guide to voting behavior in the fall. Even so, Biden’s allies and campaign strategists worry about an electorate currently inclined to treat the contest as a choice between the status quo and change—to compare Biden, in his own framing of the problem, to the Almighty instead of the alternative. An incumbent seeking reëlection would normally leave it to others to question a challenger’s character; Biden has decided to drop the niceties and do all that he personally can to persuade voters of Trump’s unfitness for public office. The country would be well served if the President and his team also took aim at the notion of Biden as a guardian of the established order. His many years of life (eighty-one) and service in elected office (going on fifty-five) might seem to cast him in that role. During the past three and a half years, though, the oldest-ever U.S. President has been a groundbreaking leader—an agent of changes that many of his doubters would celebrate, if they noticed. - [Meet the ‘double haters’ who could decide the election]( Many voters express resignation, dismay and anger over being asked to choose between Biden and Trump again in November There is also the matter of the potential impact of Trump’s New York conviction on 34 counts of felony business fraud in connection with paying hush-money to an adult film actress ahead of the 2016 election. A New York Times-Siena College poll following Trump’s conviction found a slight decline in Trump’s advantage over Biden, though a national poll by Monmouth University showed no clear shift. But the Times-Siena poll found that double haters were especially likely to abandon Trump, who lost more than one-fifth of those who previously supported him. Roughly half of this group said they now preferred Biden, while the other half said they remain undecided. - [Democrats wrestle with whether to attend Netanyahu’s address to Congress as many plan to boycott]( While some Democrats are saying they will come out of respect for Israel, a larger and growing faction wants no part of it, creating an extraordinarily charged atmosphere at a gathering that normally amounts to a ceremonial, bipartisan show of support for an American ally. “I wish that he would be a statesman and do what is right for Israel. We all love Israel,” former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said recently on CNN about Netanyahu. “We need to help them and not have him stand in the way of that for such a long time.” She added, “I think it’s going to invite more of what we have seen in terms of discontent among our own.” - [Summer is finally here. Enjoy the warm weather in a Daily Kos t-shirt!]( - [What Biden needs to say to win the debate with Trump]( The president should take off the gloves and deliver the facts — with strength and conviction. That’s all he needs to do to beat Trump’s campaign of lies, revenge, and attacks on American values. From the start, Biden should telegraph the contrast between himself and Trump in three key areas: a record of results versus bluster; a history of delivering for working families versus a record of being only for himself; and as a president who takes responsibility for his decisions versus a sore loser who always dodges responsibility. Biden should alert viewers to watch for the way Trump routinely plays the victim, blames others, and avoids any accountability — including from the law, the courts, and the American people. As the debate plays out, he can then highlight when Trump brags without results, shifts blame, or puts his self-interest above that of average Americans. 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