Politico: “The Biden team is betting that the subtext won’t be lost on those voters back home who are paying attention. The trip was meant to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day. It also was designed to draw a distinction with Trump. For that reason, it became a major test: not only of Biden’s ability to withstand the scrutiny of his age, but of his capacity to use a grand international setting to reach voters back home.”
“Biden barely mentioned his general election opponent. But his journey to Aisne-Marne served as a coda to a visit to France that was all about drawing sharp contrasts with Trump. He honored the veterans and war dead whom Trump did not. He touted the international alliances Trump has threatened. And he warned of the fragility of democracy, portraying it as under threat from the type of isolationism that has come to define Trumpism back home.”
