In his bid to beat former president Donald Trump once more, President Joe Biden is using some of his side’s more traditional lines of attack and some of the themes he used in the midterm elections of 2022. He is using some of his party’s more regular lines of attack.
Trump often goes after him on issues like Social Security, Medicare, and pregnancy, which have been covered in political campaigns for years, but he also often warns that Trump is a head of the extreme MAGA activity and a unique threat to democracy.
” Trump’s plan is poor and money- strapped”, reads a Biden- Harris plan storm sent Tuesday morning. Trump has adopted the same extreme vision and losing agenda in his eminently rare public comments, promising a “bloodbath” if he loses, threatening Social Security cuts, and (once more ) backing a national abortion ban.
Trump has refuted each of those assertions.
The “bloodbath” comment was made as Trump was talking about the auto industry, raising concerns that Trump is a threat to democracy.
” We’re going to put a 100 % tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not going to be able to sell those cars if I get elected”, Trump said. ” Now, if I do n’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole — that’s gonna be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country. That will be the least of it. But they’re not going to sell those , cars. They’re building massive factories”.
Trump stated on social media on March 18 that everyone who criticized the bloodbath comment “fully understood that I was just referring to imports that Crooked Joe Biden allowed.”
On Social Security, Trump has repeatedly pledged “never to do anything to jeopardize” the program, and on abortion, he positioned himself to the left of figures such as former Vice President Mike Pence and Gov. Ron DeSantis ( R- FL ), who supported national bans in the GOP primary. Trump has instead largely stated that the issue should be left to the states.
Republican National Committee spokesman Jake Schneider said Biden’s claims are” all lies” that reflect the president’s lack of a second- term plan.
” The only’ bloodbath’ is what Biden has done to our country”, Schneider said. While Biden has spent more time on vacation than any other president in recent memory, President Trump has presided over record economic success and world peace once more, and he will do it once more.” Illegal aliens are pouring across the border, gas prices are going up ( again ), and the world has descended into total chaos,” he said.
However, according to Democratic strategist Brad Bannon, Biden is correct to pursue Trump on abortion and other issues.
” In my opinion, he has been deliberately vague about abortion”, Bannon said. ” He does n’t want to scare off the base, but he does n’t want to alienate suburban voters in the battleground states where that’s been a killer issue. The best way for him to deal with]Biden’s attacks] is to say exactly what his position on abortion is”.
Trump claimed in a radio interview last week that “people are agreeing on 15” for a 15-week nationwide ban. But in the same interview, Trump said,” It’s a state issue. It should n’t be a federal issue, it’s a state issue”.
It is this ambiguity that Bannon claims has made Trump vulnerable to criticism.
The Washington Examiner posed questions to the Trump campaign.
In the midterm elections of 2022, Biden waged vigorous opposition to restrictions on abortion and entitlement programs, and his party was widely regarded as outperforming expectations despite losing control of the House of Representatives.
” They’re coming after Social Security”, Biden said in October of 2022. ” Now it sounds like, you know,’ there’s Biden. That’s a typical Democrat saying Republicans are after Social Security.’ This is the one thing] Republicans ] have said out loud. They’ve written it down on pieces of paper”.
Following the release of a proposal for a budget proposal that would raise the Social Security retirement age, House Republicans are now making the same claim.
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Bannon claimed that Biden did run the risk of overfocusing on attacking Trump, which the president has increasingly done as polls have him in the lead in swing states.
According to Bannon,” the president needs to strike a balance between defending his own accomplishments and challenging the former president’s mistakes.” ” The reality is I do n’t know how much further you can drive up Trump’s negatives”.
