 Joe Biden He keeps putting his foot in his mouth. He can't help himself. So last week he not once but twice Defended the 1994 crime bill. He defended it Which is unbelievable because it was an unmitigated Disaster now if I'm advising Joe Biden if I'm on team Joe Biden and I'm getting paid to Strategize for him. This is what I tell him one never ever mentioned the crime bill But if it is brought up to you, which it will be you always apologize and unequivocally commit to undo the damage caused by the crime bill because objectively speaking It was a disaster. It exploded the u.s. prison population and Exacerbated this crisis this this mass incarceration crisis, which was already a problem, but it made things a lot worse So that's what I would be telling Joe Biden However, the people closest to him aren't really instructing him to do that. Otherwise He would have not bragged about the crime bill But nonetheless, you saw what happened when his senior advisor Simone Sanders tried to defend his remarks She utterly face planted. So with that being said Joe Biden I've said this once I'll say it again. He is a threat in the event. He becomes the nominee He could very well lose to Donald Trump because Donald Trump can weaponize these issues exploit these things That are very big weaknesses that hurts Joe Biden And use them against him in the same way he did this to Hillary Clinton when it comes to trade and guess what? Trump is doing it again. He's doing what he did to Hillary To Joe Biden except this time he actually is going after Biden for the crime bill So we tweeted out anyone associated with the 1994 crime bill will not have a chance of being elected In particular, african americans will not be able to vote for you I on the other hand was responsible for criminal justice reform Which had tremendous support and helped fix the bad 1994 bill Super predator was the term associated with the 1994 crime bill that sleepy joe biden was so heavily involved in passing That was a dark period in american history But has sleepy joe apologized? No, so first of all, let me just say that Donald trump's nickname for joe biden sleepy joe biden is lame as hell like What was it crooked hillary that was something that actually made sense because She was crooked. She was corrupted. Now. He was corrupt as well. He is corrupt But nonetheless, I mean it still was something that was more catchy, but sleepy joe biden really So that's stupid. However getting to the substance here when he hits joe biden here This has the potential to be a devastating attack on joe biden because donald trump is right He did in fact sign criminal justice reform into law And it's not the end all be all but nonetheless It's still a positive step in the right direction and it had bipartisan support So when you have joe biden bragging about the 1994 crime bill and donald trump attacking him from the left I mean this could be a disaster And donald trump knows how to exploit these weaknesses how to attack Democrats from the left because let's look back at 2016 when he criticized hillary clinton For her support of nafta and free trade deals that essentially devastated the middle class Look at how masterful and I hate to call anything trump does is masterful But look at the way he played hillary in this clip and I had your husband signed nafta Which was one of the worst things that ever happened Well, that's your manufacturing industry. You go to new england. You go to ohio pennsylvania You go anywhere you want secretary clinton and you will see devastation where manufacturers down 30 40 Sometimes 50 percent nafta is the worst trade deal may be ever signed anywhere But certainly ever signed in this country and now you want to approve trans specific partnership You were totally in favor of it Then you heard what I was saying how bad it is and you said I can't win that debate But you know that if you did win you would approve that and that will be almost as bad as nafta Nothing will ever top nafta that that is just not accurate. I Um Was against it once it was finally negotiated and the terms were laid out. I wrote about that in you called it the gold standard Well, I you called it the gold standard of trade deals. You said it's the finest deal You've ever seen no and then you heard what I said about it and all of a sudden you were against it Well, donald. I know you live in your own reality, but that is not The facts the facts are I did say I hoped it would be a good deal But when it was negotiated which I was not responsible for I concluded it wasn't I wrote about that. So is it president obama's fault before is it president obama's fault even announced Look, there are secretary. Is it president obama's fault? There are because he's pushing it There are different views about what's good for our country our economy and our leadership in the world If he does that to joe biden But on the crime bill He could beat joe biden Because I don't think that donald trump's claim that you know, he'll win over black voters or that Joe biden will lose support from black voters. There's no legs to that black's it isn't happening or whatever Candace owens calls it That's not going to happen, right black voters are not going to vote for a party that is explicitly against their interests that does harm to them However, donald trump doesn't need to win over black voters All he needs to do is communicate to democratic party voters all of them that you have someone Who is a shit candidate? And that's all he needs to do To win demonstrate that the democrat isn't really looking out for you and he could win because Democrats always lose when turnout is low So if donald trump can convince people to not vote for the democrat that can serve him very well Again, I don't think he's going to win over these voters who are dissatisfied with joe biden because of his support for the crime bill But he doesn't need to win them over in order to win All he has to do is demoralize enough voters in order to win now remember back in 2016 hillary clinton couldn't barely generate enthusiasm All of her crowds were small nobody really cared and we're already seeing the same signs that joe biden is struggling as well He's technically the frontrunner right if you look at current public opinion polls and averages But he's suffering from the same enthusiasm gap that hillary clinton suffered from So what donald trump could do is capitalize on this by pretending to be a populist again Hitting joe biden from the left in an area where joe biden is objectively terrible And that could be enough to discourage the democratic party base From coming out to vote for joe biden and trump could win and joe biden Even if i think he is a little bit more strategically savvy than hillary clinton he could potentially be more vulnerable because Donald trump doesn't just have the crime bill where he can hit biden from the left joe biden also voted for nafta So we can replicate the exact same attack That he used in 2016 joe biden also voted for the iraq war trump can use that as well So if joe biden becomes the nominee This could be a disaster Now what matters is how joe biden responds to this if he's actually going to be apologetic about the crime bill or If he's going to continue on with this trend of narcissism and brag about it I mean the fact that he would brag about the crime bill is honestly absurd But it's joe biden so you never know so here's the thing if i'm joe biden How do i respond to this if i am smart First of all again you apologize for the crime bill but the second thing I think maybe it could work if he called out donald trump's pro crime pass because he actually has A relatively dark history even if he wasn't a politician when it comes to the issue of being tough on crime Because as eugene scott of the washington post writes while trump is taking credit for criminal justice reform His track record advocating for harsh responses to criminal activity greatly proceeds his political career Most notably his affiliation with the central park five a group of five teenagers was wrongfully imprisoned Following the brutal sexual assault of a woman in central park in 1989 The teens were deprived of food drink and sleep for more than 24 hours before they falsely confessed to the crime During the 2016 presidential election use of salam one of the teenagers wrote about how the current president responded to the headline grabbing story for the washington post During our trial it seemed like every new yorker had an opinion but no one took it further than trump He called for blood in the most public way possible He wrote trump used his money to take out full page ads in all of the city's major newspapers Urging the reinstatement of the death penalty in new york I don't know why the future republican nominee bought those ads But it seems part and parcel with his racist attitudes trump has never apologized for calling for our deaths In fact, he's somehow still convinced that we belong in prison salam added It's further proof of trump's bias racism and inability to admit that he's wrong And if i'm joe biden, i'm definitely bringing up the fact that donald trump took out a full page ad To call for the death penalty of these teens who were wrongly accused Now is that definitely Going to help him Deflect i mean maybe but certainly he can't do what hillary clinton did right? He can't just say well. No, I don't support the crime bill anymore You have to actually play offense yourself You can't just play defense because what donald trump did in that clip Is he had hillary clinton on the ropes? He was playing offense and hillary clinton was playing defense Joe biden would be smart to actually hit back at donald trump and put him On defense as well, but we don't know if he's gonna do that and furthermore That's assuming he becomes the nominee But the best case scenario for all of us is if we defeat joe biden So he doesn't become the nominee because I don't want donald trump to get reelected And if you put up joe biden democrats You're opening the door To donald trump replicating the exact strategy that made him successful in 2016 Put up a shitty centrist neoliberal democrat donald trump does his fake populism thing and attacks him from the left Which I mean if he's attacking you from the left And there's some credibility to his claim that he's more electus on this particular issue That's really harmful. That's damaging because democrats should never be outflanked from the left by a republican So let me just emphasize We want to defeat joe biden Otherwise we could see a repeat of 2016 We could see former years of donald trump and if democrats are clearly Trying to think about electability, which a lot of them do Then you would be a fool To go with joe biden because out of all the democratic party presidential contenders He's probably the least electable. Am I saying that it's a sure bet that joe biden would lose to donald trump? No, in fact It's possible that he wins, right? There are reasons To believe he has a better shot than hillary clinton just because I think he's a little bit more strategically savvy than her But nonetheless It's still you're rolling the dice if you go with joe biden. We'll just leave that there You're rolling the dice if you go with joe biden