NBC News: “President Donald Trump’s political advisers have bluntly told him he can’t win the November election if the campaign is about him, and for weeks they unsuccessfully urged him to pivot to a new strategy focused on his general election opponent, Joe Biden.”
“Trump finally appeared to heed the advice Tuesday, although the setting and the tone of the political broadside may not have been what his advisers had envisioned. Trump’s remarks, which mentioned Biden 31 times, were monotone, and the backdrop — the White House Rose Garden — was a break from longtime presidential efforts to separate official and re-election business.”
“And while the president delivered the criticism his aides had been hoping for, he also reminded voters of his impeachment by throwing in attacks on the former vice president’s family and the Ukrainian company at the center of the investigation.”