Trump plots new election strategy: tie Biden to China –and attack them both

As the campaign is reshaped by the coronavirus, the president has sought to shift focus away from his erratic response

Meet "Beijing Biden", also known as "Sleepy Joe". According to Donald Trump and his allies, he is both a comrade of "Crazy Bernie" and an establishment creature of Washington, whose coziness with China and long history of verbal stumbles make him unfit for the presidency.

This emerging, and at times conflicting, portrait of Joe Biden is part of a recent effort by the Trump campaign to define the presumptive Democratic nominee to its advantage, ahead of a general election that has now been thoroughly reshaped by the coronavirus pandemic.