Biden's Campaign Strategy Of 'Put Your Dumb Uncle In The Basement' Still Being Used By Admin

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Biden's Campaign Strategy Of 'Put Your Dumb Uncle In The Basement' Still Being Used By Admin

President Biden won the White House because the coronavirus allowed him to stay protected in his basement, defending his campaign from its biggest responsibility — the candidate himself, a new book says.

The Biden camp ran somewhat on the strategy of "you put your dumb uncle in the basement,’’ referring to the Democratic candidate, according to "Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency.’’

Even former President Obama originally declined to support his 78-year-old ex-vice president and friend, troubled he could become a "tragicomic caricature of an aging politician having his last hurrah’’ if not protected from himself, the book states.

The work’s authors — Jonathan Allen of NBC News and Amie Parnes of The Hill — write that many times, "the stars aligned’’ for Biden, a previous two-time loser presidential hopeful who scored on his third try despite himself.

And no one was more caught off guard than the Trump camp.

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The book explains that in May, Trump watched Biden deliver a CNN interview and afterward asked top aide Kellyanne Conway, "What do you think?’’

Conway responded, "I think if we lose to him, we are pathetic,’’ the book says.

Trump laughed, say the book’s authors, who further wrote "Shattered’’ about Hillary Clinton’s failed presidential bid in 2016.

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"Until the COVID thing came, we were winning four hundred electoral votes,’’ a source close with Trump’s internal numbers around February 2020 explained to the authors.

Even one of Biden’s top advisers, Anita Dunn, supposedly told an associate at one point, "COVID was the best thing that happened to him."

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In mid-March 2020, Biden’s team transformed the basement of his house in Wilmington, Del., into a makeshift studio from which he could carefully issue remarks.

"They used coronavirus as an excuse to keep him in the basement, and it was smart,’’ a Trump adviser told the authors.

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"Biden was able to hide his biggest weakness, which is himself. And he did it with an excuse that sounded responsible."

Though Biden’s broadcast the night of the March 17 primaries was very bizarre, the book states.

"There was a hostage-video quality to the broadcast. It was cloudy and dark," the book describes.

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"As he spoke, there was an ever-so-slight time delay, putting Biden’s words out of sync with the movements of his mouth. This was the guy who would send Donald Trump to Mar-a-Lago for good?"

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One Biden aide explained to the authors, "I cringed the entire time. He looked like he didn’t know what he was doing.’’

Meanwhile, Obama "seemed to be enamored with former Texas congressman, Beto O’Rourke,’’ as a presidential contender, although he eventually put his clout behind his former vice president, who he once likened to a brother, the book says.

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