Jackson Richman of JNS quotes the
Republican Jewish Coalition in his article this week
examining how much the left-wing group J Street and the Bernie
Sanders wing of the Democratic Party will have on Joe
Biden and the direction of his foreign
policy goals:
Republican Jewish Coalition spokesperson Neil
Strauss told JNS that a Biden administration is likely to be
to the left of the Obama administration.
“We know this because the mainstream of the Democrat Party has
moved away from its traditional bipartisan pro-Israel stance, leaving
the Republican Party as the only pro-Israel party,” he said.
“For proof, look no further than Biden inviting Bernie
Sanders’ foreign-policy team onto his campaign and embracing J
Street’s endorsement,” he noted.
“The U.S.-Israel relationship suffered greatly during the
Obama-Biden administration,” continued Strauss. “By contrast, a Biden
presidency would be a sharp and dangerous pivot away from the policies
of the most pro-Israel President ever in history, Donald
Trump. A risk we can’t afford to take.”
Karl Rove points out Biden’s weaknesses as a
candidate in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal. He
writes:
Mr. Biden should be enjoying a bump, having become the
presumptive Democratic nominee in dramatic fashion… But Covid-19 has
forced Mr. Biden to retreat to his basement to wrestle with his
teleprompter and polish his Zoom skills.
…Mr. Biden has difficulty stringing two sentences together and
a penchant for saying weird, unhelpful things.
…Mangling sentences and jumbling paragraphs raises questions
with voters about whether Mr. Biden is up to the job, but his
challenges go deeper than syntax. There’s also his strategy.
The Biden Battalion’s opening shot at Mr. Trump, leveled in a
memo from deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield
and echoed in millions spent on ads by the campaign and its super PAC,
is that the president’s weakness toward China led him to bungle the
coronavirus response.
Mr. Biden is leading with his jaw. If the question of this
election is who’s tougher on China, the answer will be Mr. Trump. He
has spent almost four decades bashing Beijing and devoted the past
three years to roughing up China on trade. Mr. Biden has long played
down the Chinese economic and military threats.
…Mr. Biden is also vulnerable because of the previous
administration’s failure to refill the National Strategic Stockpile’s
supply of masks, gowns and other critical personal protective
equipment after the 2009 swine flu outbreak. This happened on his
watch.