When campaigns are in meltdown, it seems like nothing they touch goes right. There are a lot of symptoms when campaigns are in meltdown; it’s very difficult for those campaigns to get their own voters back into the fold.
This is obviously true of reelection campaigns. It was true for Jimmy Carter in 1980, who had a really difficult time getting Democrats back in the fold. He barely won the election in 1976 against Gerald Ford, and then he ran against Ronald Reagan and got absolutely walloped.
Joe Biden is now in the middle of a campaign meltdown, which is evident because every story about the Biden campaign is about how he is struggling to win back voters that already should be in his back pocket.
It also means his campaign is now attempting bizarre and sundry tactics in order to gain headlines in the middle of a news cycle that is terrible for him.
In the past few weeks, different…
