As Joe Biden flounders, Donald Trump is acting somewhat restrained
- Donald Trump is ‘uncharacteristically holding fire’ amid calls for US President Joe Biden to withdraw
Since announcing his White House bid, Donald Trump has taken every opportunity to paint US President Joe Biden as so weak and compromised that he would struggle to make it to November’s election, let alone serve another four years.
Yet with the Democratic president suffering perhaps the worst week of his political career, his Republican rival appears to have resisted what must have been a potent urge to get out in public and gloat.
Trump’s rally in Doral, Florida on Tuesday will be his first public event in 11 days, and only the second since Biden’s prime-time televised meltdown at their June 27 debate in Atlanta that upended the election campaign.
Americans have become accustomed to the drumbeat of Trump’s brash campaign rhetoric from the podiums of sports arenas, the precincts of court houses and conservative cable news studios – and when it stops, they notice.
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“Trump’s not talking much about Biden’s bad debate. Trump’s campaign is not blitzing ads about it,” Democratic former White House aide David Axelrod noted on X Monday.