A new campaign ad from Joe Biden targeting Democrat voters for the upcoming caucuses and primaries uses the argument “This is no time to take a risk” as its pitch.
The reaction on Biden’s official YouTube channel has not been very good so far with more thumbs down than thumbs up.
Biden ad Narrator:
Every day he is president, Donald Trump poses a threat to America and the world. We have to beat him. Joe Biden is the strongest candidate to do it.
This is no time to take a risk. We need our strongest candidate. So let’s nominate the Democrat Trump fears the most. Vote Biden. Beat Trump.
WATCH:
While stumping for Bernie Sanders, Michael Moore indirectly blasted the argument.
Per Yahoo, Moore went on to argue that focusing on who might be electable in a general election has historically been a bad strategy for Democrats.
“I started to think about this ‘play it safe.’ Every time we’ve been told that … and we voted safe we lost,” Moore said, adding, “Every time we play it safe, we choose the safe nominee, and we lose … except those times — time — when we decided to take a risk.”
Moore was referring to the 2008 election, which was won by Barack Obama despite fears voters wouldn’t send an African-American to the White House.
“You remember … two years before Barack Obama was going to run and there was talk about it, how many people in here said … ‘I know this country I live in, there’s no way they’re going to elect a black man,” said Moore. “But Barack Obama didn’t care.”