Trump’s Biden problem: People don’t hate him like they did Hillary Clinton

Published June 24, 2020 11:00am ET



Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden may not be moving much, but he’s proving a tougher target for President Trump than his past political opponents.

Less than five months from the election, the Trump campaign team is still trying to find the right message to defeat Biden. The president has stuck with the “Sleepy Joe” nickname, though his campaign is as likely to go with “Hidin’ Biden” to mock his low-key approach to the trail or “Beijing Biden” to paint the Democrat as soft on China. But none of these have defined the former vice president as effectively as “Crooked Hillary” Clinton, “Lyin’ Ted” Cruz, “Little Marco” Rubio, or “Low Energy Jeb” Bush, in part because Biden is better liked than most of these previous Trump foes.

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