Trump's 2020 attack strategy: Smear Biden over mental fitness By Eric Bradner, Ryan Nobles and Dan Merica, CNN President Donald Trump and his allies have zeroed-in on an attack against Joe Biden, going after the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee's mental fitness in a coordinated effort using smears and innuendo to paint him as ill-quipped to be President of the United States. Trump for months has questioned the mental acuity of the opponent he calls "Sleepy Joe." Trump last week referred to Biden as "a sleepy guy in a basement of a house," and he has repeatedly suggested that Biden did not personally write statements issued by his campaign criticizing Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. But his campaign and the Republican National Committee have increasingly focused its attacks on Biden's propensity for on-camera verbal stumbles in recent weeks, as it seeks to define Biden after he emerged victorious from the Democratic primary. One example came earlier this month, when Trump's campaign released an advertisement comparing Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, which closed with the line: "At least Bernie remembers his positions." https://twitter.com/parscale/status/1247928262036258816 The attacks are an early demonstration of how Trump will use the full Republican Party apparatus to run a scorched-earth campaign based on personal insults and baseless insinuations -- an intensified version of his playbook from 2016, when Trump and his allies, without evidence, cast doubt on Hillary Clinton's health. They have become a daily occurrence from Trump's campaign, aides and Republican allies across every medium possible -- on social media, in campaign email blasts and videos and on Trump-aligned media organizations like Fox News. Biden's advisers and Democratic allies point out that Trump is guilty of many of the same verbal tics he is attacking Biden over, and frequently lies and embraces conspiracy theories. As one Biden ally put it: "Has Trump taken his own advice and chugged a

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Search title: Trump's 2020 attack strategy: Smear Biden over mental fitness By Eric Bradner, Ryan Nobles and Dan Merica, CNN President Donald Trump and his allies have zeroed-in on an attack against Joe Biden, going after the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee's mental fitness in a coordinated effort using smears and innuendo to paint him as ill-quipped to be President of the United States. Trump for months has questioned the mental acuity of the opponent he calls "Sleepy Joe." Trump last week referred to Biden as "a sleepy guy in a basement of a house," and he has repeatedly suggested that Biden did not personally write statements issued by his campaign criticizing Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. But his campaign and the Republican National Committee have increasingly focused its attacks on Biden's propensity for on-camera verbal stumbles in recent weeks, as it seeks to define Biden after he emerged victorious from the Democratic primary. One example came earlier this month, when Trump's campaign released an advertisement comparing Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, which closed with the line: "At least Bernie remembers his positions." https://twitter.com/parscale/status/1247928262036258816 The attacks are an early demonstration of how Trump will use the full Republican Party apparatus to run a scorched-earth campaign based on personal insults and baseless insinuations -- an intensified version of his playbook from 2016, when Trump and his allies, without evidence, cast doubt on Hillary Clinton's health. They have become a daily occurrence from Trump's campaign, aides and Republican allies across every medium possible -- on social media, in campaign email blasts and videos and on Trump-aligned media organizations like Fox News. Biden's advisers and Democratic allies point out that Trump is guilty of many of the same verbal tics he is attacking Biden over, and frequently lies and embraces conspiracy theories. As one Biden ally put it: "Has Trump taken his own advice and chugged a

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