Conservative legal commentator George Conway suggested that if President Biden wants to strengthen his support base, he “just has to be normal and honest” in Thursday’s State of the Union address.
Asked how Biden could make a “positive case” to voters over the next four years, Conway said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that the president “has to be empathetic, he has to be himself. It should be,” he said.
“At the end of the day, I don’t think he needs to be a hard sell,” he added. “He has to go out there. He just needs to be normal.”
Conway, a strong critic of former President Trump, claimed that he and Biden won their respective presidential elections because of problems with their opponents.
“It’s Hillary’s fault that Trump won in 2016.” [Clinton] was the problem. “Trump lost in 2020 because Trump was the issue,” a lawyer currently in divorce proceedings with former Trump aide Kellyanne Conway said during a panel discussion. “And in 2024, Trump will lose again because Trump will be the issue. He will make himself the problem. He can’t help but make himself the problem. ”
“What Biden needs to do is basically say, ‘That person is crazy,'” Conway continued. “He doesn’t have to call him by his name, just say, ‘That guy is crazy.'” Let’s be normal, America. ” That is the theme of this campaign. ”
Mr. Biden is scheduled to deliver his annual State of the Union address at the Capitol on Thursday night, just two days after Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump won their respective Super Tuesday primaries. President Trump’s only Republican challenger, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, suspended her campaign on Wednesday, making a 2020 rematch between the incumbent and former president even more likely in November.
Biden has faced declining approval ratings in recent months, with polls showing him slightly behind Trump nationally, according to The Hill/Decision Desk’s polling index. has been done.
His State of the Union address was an opportunity for the president to tout the accomplishments of his first term and convince voters that he will best serve another four years in the White House, despite growing concerns about his age and mental acuity. It is widely seen as an opportunity to
“You know, the president has always been an optimistic person, why he remains hopeful for the future of this country, even in the face of the challenges before us, and why he would bet against the American people. They will tell us whether it was a mistake,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters this week.
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