President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.Photo: Alex Wong/Getty; SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty
Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign has an idea for how to react if Thanksgiving devolves into a back-and-forth over politics: hit them with some stats.
On Thursday morning, the Biden-Harris reelection campaign released a “guide” explaining what to do if family approaches you with “crazy MAGA nonsense,” a reference toDonald Trump’s Make America Great Again campaign slogan.
The partly satirical, partly earnest guide offers Biden supporters tips for countering some common pro-Trump claims, in case they come up at the dinner table.
“He negotiated with the Taliban, sent love letters to Kim Jong Un while letting him and Iran pursue nukes and doing nothing to push back on Chinese aggression,” it continues. “Now, he’spraised Putin as ‘smart,‘‘savvy’ for invading Ukraine, and called Hezbollah ‘very smart’ after Israel was attacked.”
Elsewhere in the guide, the Biden campaign suggests that if anyone brings up Medicare or Social Security, tell them that Trump tried cutting them “Every. Single. Year.” he was in office while he “cut taxes for his superrich friends.”
And for any family members who say that Trump is faring better in the polls, Biden’s campaign says: “Oh — those same polls and pundits who said Joe Biden would never be president, and that Republicans would have massive wins last November?”
The guide then declares that many two-term presidents saw lagging numbers in their first terms. “Just like on election night a few weeks ago, Biden’s agenda is going to win again next November.”
Both Trump and Biden are running for their respective parties’ presidential nominations in 2024, with the most recent polls predicting a rematch between the two.
As the election draws nearer, the Biden-Harris campaign has gotten increasingly brazen with its campaign messaging. Recently, the team began seizing on Republican in-fighting, sharing a slew of moments in which lawmakers slam their own party — and back the administration’s messaging.
Back in October, amid the chaotic search to replaceKevin McCarthyas speaker of the House, Biden’s campaign reposted viral moments from Republican presidential debates, such as one in which former South Carolina Gov.Nikki Haleysaid, “Donald Trumpadded $8 trillion to our debtand our kids are never going to forgive us for this.”
Speaking to PEOPLE at the time, Rob Flaherty, deputy campaign manager for Biden’s 2024 campaign and former director of digital strategy in Biden’s White House, said the campaign appreciated “demonstrating to the American people that the Republican Party can’t tie their own shoes.”
“At the end of the day, the best evidence for the Republican Party being unfit to govern is the Republican Party,” Flaherty said.
source: people.com
