Opinion | Where’s Joe? What Biden Could Learn From Reagan About Running in a Crisis

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Opinion: There is one episode from recent history that holds lessons for Biden about running a presidential campaign during a moment of crisis: the story of how Ronald Reagan ran against President Jimmy Carter in 1980, during the Iran hostage crisis

Monica Prasad is a professor of sociology and faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. She is the authorCrises make or break presidents, and they also make or break presidential campaigns. As the nation watches President Donald Trump and state governors work their way through this crisis, former Vice President Joe Biden has lost the spotlight. He is not currently in any position of power that allows him, like his fellow Democrat, New York Gov.

Carter diagnosed the problem, but had no solution to it. Reagan had to walk a fine line between criticizing the president and not appearing to politicize a national crisis. By putting together an artful campaign that presented his positive qualities as the embodiment of the hope the nation was looking for, he was able to convince voters he had the solution.The hostage crisis began in 1979, when a group of Iranian college students took over the U.S.

But as the months dragged on, the public became more hostile to Carter. Even before a rescue effort in April ended in disaster, with eight American military personnel killed, Americans were starting to say that the president had failed. All of the Republican candidates for president again were criticizing Carter, and Kennedy was again making trouble in the primary. Reagan and his advisers seized the opening, but they did so not by directly criticizing the rescue effort.

Draw a contrast with the incumbent that is rooted in the challenger’s personality and resonates with the broader vision.

 

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Reagan also sold arms to Iran to.get.the hostages released, reagan and ollie north committed Treason, w. Lied us into a war in Iraq, we're still there, also still in Afghanistan, lot of blood and treasure, for oil

Yet another reason to worry about mismanagement at the top of the Biden campaign.

His campaign has hired a Nanny to change his diapers twice daily. In the morning when he wakes up and in the night when he goes to sleep.

This man is probably a few months away from be admitted to the hospital for dementia. Don't his backers see this.

WOW!! Using the Iran Hostage Crisis as a comparison! Nothing alike!! Our elderly citizens are DYING. Trump didn’t disband anything!! You want JOE to cause further racial divide?Biden is mimicking what he sees on TV. Pathetic attempt to help Joes Campaign. WORTHLESS TOILET PAPER

Too old to learn anything,

Very true

Iran hostage crisis is almost nothing compared to the Covid19 crisis !

Imma let you finish, but Jimmy Carter was 1000x better at being POTUS than Trump. REMINDER: They made Carter sell his peanut farms to avoid any conflicts of interest. That's a clue into the divide between Carter and corrupt Trump.

The difference is 1-there wasn't an internet back then, only info was the tv & 2-realDonaldTrump is in a good position 2 BRING BACK THE ECONOMY & JOBS which he proved can do. Coronavirus will pass & we will need 2 rebuild. I don't think anyone wants to take a chance w/JoeBiden

Can someone ask joe if China closing their border is racist

Biden is Senile and needs to bow out, why is corporate media NOT discussing the rape allegations against him? If it were Sanders that's ALL you bastards would be covering!

The world we live in is a far cry from 1980, which was long before social media manipulated opinions. There is no playbook for this situation. Relying on old tactics is no longer the winning strategy.

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