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Judith Matlock's avatar

Polls are valuable inasmuch as they may indicate trends.

Biden has two groups he needs to court with flowers, candy, and truth: Hispanics and Youth. Trump's convinced Hispanics that those their parents and they may have fled when they came to the US are now coming after them, that the current immigrants are not like them. Biden needs to go into immigrant neighborhoods (There's ice cream there too.), something Trump is unlikely to do. But he needs to avoid college campuses* but talk directly to youth in all of his stump speeches, and that's where he can talk community college, trade schools, SBA for entrepreneurs, military careers, first-time home buyer tax breaks, AI shifting career fields, and the ever-popular student loan forgiveness. And most importantly he needs to convince the elders that they owe opportunity to the young and immigrants because they are building the future and supporting the economy and our burgeoning old age demographic. In other words, he needs to burnish his kindly grandpa creds, something that may neutralize some of the age thing.

*The Gaza issue would overwhelm anything he'd have to say on campus. Include the "yutes" as part of the adult discussions.

And that's my unsolicited political consultant advice for the POTUS today.

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