We have seen Biden’s caustic ads lambasting former president Donald Trump, a full-throttle attack on Republican abortion bans and frequent Biden jabs at his opponent. Biden took Trump’s invitation to ask, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” and ran with it. And Biden’s team has begun mercilessly taunting Trump about his snoozing in court. Biden even reached back to the Trump presidency’s mishandling of covid, tweeting: “Don’t inject bleach. And don’t vote for the guy who told you to inject bleach.”
Biden is pressing every advantage — money, organization and freedom to travel (unlike his opponent, who is stuck in court). “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,” ABC News reported. While Trump has held just two rallies in Ohio and Georgia, the report continued, Biden is out and about seizing “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.”
Biden also capitalized on Republicans’ blunders. He jumped on Republicans’ rejection of a tough, bipartisan border security bill. He slammed apologists for Russia’s Vladimir Putin and needled Trump about his Truth Social stock:
In a blistering speech in Florida on Tuesday, Biden made clear Trump bears ultimate responsible for the abortion bans popping up in the aftermath of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. “Let’s be real clear: There’s one person responsible for this nightmare, and he’s acknowledged and he brags about it: Donald Trump,” he said. He went on to mock Trump’s insistence that sending the issue to the states was working “brilliantly.” (He caustically asked: “It’s a six-week ban in Florida. It’s really brilliant, isn’t it? Even before women know they’re pregnant — is that brilliant?”) He wasn’t done. Trump “describes the Dobbs decision as a ‘miracle.’ … Maybe it’s coming from that Bible he’s trying to sell, ” Biden said. “Whoa, I almost wanted to buy one just to see what the hell’s in it.”
The campaign has months to go. Biden’s supporters will need to steel themselves for the inevitable ups and downs in the campaign. But it’s hard to remember why Democrats were so distraught about nominating him. He’s not the one caught dozing off nearly every day, slurring his words, rambling incoherently about Gettysburg, running a sparse campaign schedule or whining about the temperature.
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