Biden visited East Palestine a year after Trump. This doesn’t bode well | Ben Davis

The Biden campaign keeps fumbling basic progressive causes - allowing Trump to falsely paint himself as a populist hero

Joe Biden visited East Palestine, Ohio, the site of a massive train derailment and ecological disaster, for the first time last week. The problem, of course, is that the accident happened over a year ago. Donald Trump visited while out of office, only two weeks after the initial disaster.

The mismatch encapsulates a major problem for the Democrats' messaging. They have allowed Trump and the Republican party to position themselves more and more as representing workers and victims of corporate negligence and malfeasance. Biden and the Democrats must change their positioning and economic messaging to reassert that they will fight for workers.

Ben Davis works in political data in Washington. He worked on the data team for the Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign