President Trump and President Obama have briskly turned Tuesday's mediums into proxy fights to preserve their legacy, while President Clinton is away for a season while he dreams of coming back into the limelight.
Both presidents are on sprints: Trump launches 11 rallies in eight states in six days. Obama will visit Illinois and Indiana tomorrow, after being arrested yesterday in Florida and Georgia.
Trump and Obama, each of them being a slot machine for their fans, they have rushed into the multi-stop days and clearly feast on dragging each other on the battlefields:
- Asset: "I heard President Obama speak today, I had to listen, I was in the plane, I did not have anything else to do."
- Obama: "All I say, you can search on the Internet, here is your chance to vote for people who really know the Internet."
- Asset: "I listened to President Obama today, he had a very small crowd, I must be honest, they do not tell you, you know, they do not tell you that."
- Obama: "At the moment, the Republicans are all:" Look, the economy is so good. "Where do you think it started, when did it start?
Peter Baker of the N.Y. Times Obama looks energetic as he violates the tradition of his predecessors, who have rarely directly attacked their predecessors:
- "Obama's voice is astonished when he speaks of his successor, almost as if he still could not believe that the executive mansion he had occupied for eight years was now home to President Trump. "
Trump stuck According to data from the Census Bureau, Josh Boak, from PA, went to Trump's friendly outlines, traveling mainly to "whiter, less educated counties with incomes below those the United States,
- "[H]e was mainly jetting to small towns such as Elko, Nevada (20 078 inhabitants). Now, Mosinee, Wisconsin (4,023 inhabitants). Or Belgrade, Montana (population 8774). "
- "Since March, Trump has crisscrossed the country like a salesman with a determined territory. The majority of his travels took place in nine states. These are Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Florida, Missouri, Montana, Indiana, West Virginia and Nevada. Trump won eight of these states in 2016, but not Nevada. "
And then there is President Clinton. "Nobody wants to campaign with Bill Clinton Anymore," wrote Lisa Lerer of the NY Times on a nostalgic date for Little Rock:
- "There are no plans for him … to appear publicly with any democrats in mid-term elections ".
- "Younger and more liberal voters Mr. Clinton's reputation for his ideological centrism on issues such as financial regulation and crime is unappealing. "
Be smart: Guess who appreciates the show. Rhymes with George W. Bush.
