Democrats and campaign officials know their job may get tougher if Trump’s name isn’t on top of the GOP ticket.
Biden aides believe, no matter whom the Republicans nominate, that the GOP playbook against the president — with attacks on his age, his son Hunter Biden and socialism — will be the same as the one that failed in 2020. | Morry Gash/AP PhotoPresident Joe Biden and his campaign team continue to believe that they will square off against Donald Trump in a general election rematch of four years prior.
Their efforts moved into higher gear this week with the entry of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis into the race. His glitch-filled launch on Twitter Spaces drew widespread mockery from Trump and other Republicans. The Biden campaign moved swiftly too, trolling DeSantis with a tweet to its own fundraising page and buying Google ads for searches like “DeSantis flop” and “DeSantis disaster.”
“They’re all extreme. I grew up under the Ronald Reagan Republican party that wrapped itself in the American flag,” said DNC chair Jaime Harrison. “Well, part of America is freedom: the freedom to speak, the freedom of choice. And these guys are everything against freedom.” The DNC carried out the lion’s share of the swipes on DeSantis, as Team Biden remains a skeleton staff having launched a month ago. But the DNC, its officials said, has already ramped up its campaign apparatus. It has begun fundraising in all 50 states and has deployed surrogates and staffers to trail DeSantis and other Republicans as they hold events.of South Carolina, who jumped in just days before DeSantis, and former U.N.
DNC aides are also casting a wide net, researching the background of other GOP candidates who may not even jump in the race, including Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a potentially formidable foe. Democrats believe that while a moderate Republican might prove a more serious general election opponent, others who may enter the race — like New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sunnunu and former New Jersey Gov.
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