Biden advisers want to make sure Trump fails to alter or clarify his abortion position now that he faces a general electorate, and they want to put him on the defensive on economic issues while he's distracted.
The Biden team has long maintained that focusing on Trump as a presidential candidate rather than a legal drama is the best way to defeat him. Even with the likelihood of widespread media coverage of the first of three prospective Trump trials this week, Biden aides insist that won't change.
“The contrast that President Biden will drive is that he's got your back, and if that is the message that breaks through, that's what moves the needle,” a White House-connected Democratic strategist said. The fact that Donald Trump is in court defending himself helps him greatly.”
Six to eight weeks are planned for Trump's New York trial. Unless Wednesdays are trial days, he must arrive in person every weekday. Trump campaign officials say the former president will hold rallies and events on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Biden will resurrect a major economic argument of the 2020 campaign in Scranton: that he is focusing on the needs of Americans like Scranton while Trump is attempting to deliver for Park Avenue millionaires.
Biden said during a town hall near Scranton in the final weeks of the 2020 campaign that “guys like Trump who inherited everything and squandered what they inherited are the people I’ve always had a problem with.”
Johnson says Senate supplemental won't be considered despite pressure. Biden allies said he'll stress middle-class-benefitting policies in his 2025 budget blueprint on Tuesday, such as hiking billionaire taxes.
The president will offer different versions of that message at his subsequent stops in what he and his team regard as a key state in 2024. Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan—Democrats' blue wall—helped Biden reach 270 electoral votes four years ago.
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