When you're running against a guy like that all you have to do to win is to make the election about THEM. About THEIR record. In the general we want the R candidate to be talking about nothing but Joe Biden in every interview, every debate, every town hall. If that happens we will win. It's that simple.
We tried that theory with Obama in 2012. It didn't work, and the Dems didn't even need to fraud that hard.
Obama, meanwhile, tried the "turn out the base" theory. In fact he tried so hard that he didn't even make a play for the independents. And that worked.
Want Republicans to vote? Don't nominate a limp dick candidate. I promise you, they will not vote.
Whether this is true or not depends on the other side of the coin: the democratic base. It's at least as large as the Republican base and unfortunately Trump's special gift for bringing people to the polls applies to dems as well. He's so polarizing that dems are as motivated to vote against him as reps are to vote for him. That's why the turnout in 2020 was so high (well that and all the bullshit rules changes around covid).
The idea that the Dem base beat the R base in 2020 is premised on the legitimacy of the election. What more can I say? There is no situation in which more voters will turn out with Joe Biden on the ticket instead of Obama.
We tried that theory with Obama in 2012. It didn't work, and the Dems didn't even need to fraud that hard.
Obama, meanwhile, tried the "turn out the base" theory. In fact he tried so hard that he didn't even make a play for the independents. And that worked.
Want Republicans to vote? Don't nominate a limp dick candidate. I promise you, they will not vote.
The idea that the Dem base beat the R base in 2020 is premised on the legitimacy of the election. What more can I say? There is no situation in which more voters will turn out with Joe Biden on the ticket instead of Obama.