If you were wondering whether he has a plan? He doesn't have a plan. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1311297684540620801

A centerpiece of the Trump campaign strategy for months has been to paint Biden as a puppet of the radical left. And here's Trump tweeting that you shouldn't worry about that, because Biden doesn't like leftists and is willing to stand up to them on the public stage.

Who's the voter that Trump wins over by saying that Biden disrespected Bernie last night? What's the demographic that helps him with? What's the larger narrative it helps to build? There is none. It's incoherent. It makes no sense on any level. It's just playground bullshit.

And yes, Trump would love it if left-wing voters stayed home. But that's one of those things that, if you're on Trump's team, you can hope happens, and maybe surreptitiously nudge toward happening, but can't summon into happening by making the pitch out loud.

Because look what happens when the Trump folks try to make an overt "Biden hates the left" pitch: Folks like AOC pop up to smack them down. https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1311133187251359744

And suddenly it's Biden and AOC on one side, and Trump and Kellyanne Conway on the other. And AOC isn't just defending Biden, she's acknowledging their policy differences and making the strategic case for voting for him anyway.

And if leftish voters take anything away from the whole mishegas, it's that Trump wants them to stay home, but AOC wants them to vote—and to keep the pressure on Biden after he wins. And that isn't just a good dynamic for Biden, it's a mobilizing, energizing dynamic.

The only group who will respond favorably to tweets like Trump's is people who already love him and like to watch him talk shit.

But when you got 46% the last time around and are polling well below that this time, "get the people who already love me to love me harder" isn't exactly a genius final-stretch strategy.