Biden's Strategy for a Predecessor Who Won't Go Away: Ignore Him

[DonViejo]

By Justin Sink
January 3, 2021, 6:00 AM EST

* President-elect’s aides prepare to contend with citizen Trump

* Outgoing president promises to be unprecedented distraction

Joe Biden faces historic challenges when he enters the White House on Jan. 20: a raging pandemic, persistently high unemployment, simmering tensions with China and Russia -- and a predecessor who won’t go away.

Aware of the chaos and distraction Donald Trump has proved he can muster, the president-elect and his advisers have developed a strategy they believe is the only way to neutralize the threat: ignore him.

One lesson of Biden’s winning presidential campaign, they say, is that there’s little incentive to engage with Trump, and that his penchant for spectacle is wearing thin with the American people. The tension will reach a head on Jan. 6, when Congress formally ratifies Biden’s victory as Trump’s supporters wage protests both on the streets of Washington, egged on by the president, and within the House and Senate.

Biden has been “adamant that we were not going to get down in the gutter with Donald Trump every day,” said adviser Kate Bedingfield. “That’s not who he is, and that’s not what the American people want to see in a president.”

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[dalton99a]

1. Let the pest control people handle it

[JonLP24]

2. Ignoring him is the best strategy

[CherokeeDem]

3. Agreed...

It's the only way to deal with a classic narcissist. It will make them angrier to be ignored because attention is all they crave.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Right, Trump keeps baiting Biden. He wants Biden to get in the gutter with him.

Biden needs to ignore the trash talk and focus on getting the football over the
goal posts.