President Donald Trump did little to lead America's response to the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic this week.<br />Instead, CNN reports he posed with cans of Goya beans and talked about dishwashers.<br />Meanwhile, Trump's staffers attempted to right his faltering reelection campaign, looking to stem the steady decline of his poll numbers.<br />In 2016, Trump's race-baiting and culture war tropes were appealing to swing voters and his core base of non-college-educated white voters.<br />Now, staffers have discovered such rhetoric seems tired and out of step by a vast majority of American voters.<br />In response, the campaign has turned its sights on presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.<br />Friday, Vice President Mike Pence described Biden as something akin to a zombie candidate who had been co-opted by Sen. Bernie Sanders and the radical left.
