Biden has small gainsn in his national vs Trump poll numbers and he’s closinbg the margins with Trump in swing states to within the margin of error for polls…..
This while Donald Trump is still looking for money, crying about his first criminal trial that will take him away from campaigning….
Trump IS winning his stalling the legal system …..
But THAT will be over in few weeks it seems with a judge that might be mighthy pissed at Trump messing with his family….
Biden does throw down against Trump…
But he is NOT comfortable getting down and dirty in the mud like Trump operates in almost ALL the time….
Biden also prefers small close encounters with supporters vs Trumnp’s large rallies….
As President Joe Biden ramps up an aggressive reelection campaign schedule — while still facing mediocre early polling and poor approval ratings — he is targeting swing states, fundraising and attacking former President Donald Trump in mocking jabs that mimic some of his rival’s own language.
In the initial phase of a long general election fight to November, Biden has traveled to every battleground state in the month since his State of the Union address with visits to Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Trump has held just two campaign rallies in Ohio and Georgia in the same amount of time, in part because his schedule was complicated by his legal issues (he denies all wrongdoing).
He went back out on the trail on Tuesday, in Michigan and Wisconsin, where he railed against Biden’s “border bloodbath” among other attacks.
The Biden campaign has seized on the differences in their recent scheduling, flipping a criticism back on Trump — about Trump’s absences — that Trump frequently used against Biden during the 2020 campaign amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“His campaign can’t raise money, he is uninterested in campaigning outside his country club, and every time he opens his mouth, he pushes moderate and suburban voters away with his dangerous agenda,” Biden campaign spokesperson James Singer in a statement last week after Trump appeared in New York court for a hearing related to his hush money trial, in which he has pleaded not guilty….
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In sharpening attacks on Trump, the Biden campaign also says Trump has other problems beyond money — including that his once-loyal No. 2, former Vice President Mike Pence, declined to endorse him, citing differences beyond the Capitol attack on Jan. 6.
“Those who worked with Donald Trump at the most senior levels of his administration believe he is too dangerous, too selfish, and too extreme to ever lead our country again — we agree,” said Biden spokesperson Ammar Moussa in response to Pence’s move to not endorse Trump.
Biden’s reelection effort appears to be outpacing Trump in infrastructure as well. In preparation for the long fight ahead, Biden and Democrats have opened more than 100 coordinated offices in key battleground states, according to the campaign….
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Biden has ramped up some of his anti-Trump barbs in a way that is landing with some voters.
On Friday morning in New York, Biden offered what’s become a recurring laugh line to the Victory Fund National Finance Committee Spring Retreat — a daylong gathering at the InterContinental New York Barclay hotel with 175 top-dollar donors.
“I know not everyone is feeling the enthusiasm. Just the other day a guy came up to me and said, ‘Mr. President, I’m being crushed by debt, I’m completely wiped out, I need some help.’ I had to say, ‘I’m sorry, Donald, I can’t help you.'”….
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“I’d be happy to compare physical characteristics,” Biden, who is 81, said at a fundraiser last week in North Carolina about Trump, who is 77. “Granted, I don’t have his orange hair.”
Voter Jerome Abron, a registered Democrat and manager of a Bojangles in Raleigh, North Carolina, said he is ready to see more of these types of attacks in public.
“I think he needs to take the gloves off,” Abron said to ABC News last week. “Take the gloves off. Time to be aggressive.”
However, when Biden speaks about how he sees Trump as a serious threat to American democracy, a charge that Trump denies, he often appears to show restraint — wanting to say more, but stopping himself before finishing the thought.
image…FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden greets 9-year-old Harry Abramson, who has a severe stutter and wrote a letter to President Biden, who also stutters, about how the president has given him more confidence, at the campaign headquarters for the state of Wisconsin, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., March 13, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque