CNN analyst credits Trump for attending slain officer's funeral while Biden hosts celebrity fundraiser in same city

We’re just listening to our Let talk about this star-studded event. We’ve got three former Democrat or two former Democratic presidents and Joe Biden all in one room with a bunch of stars showing up, and then in the same at the same time here in New York, Donald Trump is here. He’s been invited by the family of that New York Police officer who was killed during a traffic stop. All the while there is a case going on in Georgia involving Trump and the 2020 election. When you look at all the things that are happening, how is this being used? Because it always is. How are the optics of this being sort of used and spun? I have to say, Donald Trump is getting smarter. This is his third time running now. He knows what he’s doing in a way that there’s a sophistication that wasn’t there. And I do think this works. But you said that the Trump campaign has gotten smarter over these years. They’ve learned lessons from what happened back in, in 2020. They have, They know how to use them. They, they know how to gain media attention. So if you don’t have the money there, he can live based on earned media. It’s kind of the the playbook he used in 2016. And I think he does. He’s always had his finger on the pulse of what middle America actually cares about. A slain officer who shouldn’t have, who the person who killed him shouldn’t have been out. That’s something that resonates more than a bunch of celebrities at Radio City Music Hall.