then, today, comes the evidence that the biden campaign s unconventional strategy appears to be striving in this unconventional race. a new poll out this morning shows the vice president up 7 points since june, pulling way ahead of the rest of the democratic field by double digits. here to talk about the rest of this from the washington post, esteemed robert costa and also esteemed board member and executive editor for bloomberg opinion, tim o brien. thank you for being here. bob costa, i start with you, master of the campaign trail. are you surprised joe biden campaigning openly, nakedly, with his wife, both saying, hey, i m may not be perfect but the
nakedly. usually it might be, you know, some commercial that popped up from some organization that insinuated things. this is the president allowing chants of send her back to fester. that s exactly right, anderson. this president is using these issues as the center piece of his campaign. it s not just sort of a side issue. it s not something to add to a broad policy agenda that this president has. this is the agenda, cultural issues, trying to paint the democrats as extreme on all of these issues and try to galvanize his base. he realizes in 2016, he won by putting together a coalition of people who are very, very excited to vote for him, but also people who didn t like hillary clinton and didn t like hillary clinton because the president spent so much time trying to drive up her negative and is paint her as someone who s corrupt with the nickname of crooked hillary. the president is trying to use those same types of issues to
telling four congress women go back to the country they came from. his supporters don t try away from. he embraces them. i m quoting from straws to wind turbines to socially conservative issues, trump is deliberately amplifying public tensions seizing on topics to energize his base according to campaign aides and white house advisors. joining me now to talk about that cnn political analyst and washington post white house reporter who shares the by line on that article. also with us is political consultant and former romney campaign advisor stuart stevens. your piece is fascinating. you make the point other political figures have leveraged cultural flash points before. george w. bush, freedom fries, sarah palin. no one really has done it on this scale before, and so kind of nakedly. usually it might be, you know, some commercial that popped up from some organization that insinuated things.
europe. that s what they re trying to achieve. china does the same thing in other parts of the world. the united states in the past under the obama administration took no issue with it, arthel. this administration has seep it for what it really is. as have the congress of the united states, the senate and do do and the house want to impose sanctions on companies that are assisting. and interestingly enough, the european union parliament disagrees with northstream ii. arthel: yeah. so, yes, this is russia gaining influence in europe at a time when russia is at its most aggressive and most nakedly ambitious that they have been in decades. and this should not be tolerated. arthel: and if i could, give me 20 seconds on this because i m running out of time, but ambassador get knell also saying the u.s. should pull the 34,000 u.s. troops out of germany since germany has not increased their
the way it s hard to register to vote. much of which helps keep people who are disadvantaged more disadvantaged. the reason i think we have to deal with this on day one is every other issue that we care about is going to be hard to fix until our democracy is decent. some of the things i m talking about, the electoral college will take years but you have to start on day one. they were on the anti-corruption pro democracy hr-1 which the house passed, only the sky in the senate, we have to act on these. we ll see the universal background checks on guns that americans want to see something happen and washington cannot deliver. abolishing the electoral college you re for that. and expand another seat on the supreme court. it s about reforming the supreme court to make it less political. the court is coming day by day to be nakedly viewed as a partisan place and i floated a