Both the president and his reelection campaign are going after his coup-attempting predecessor even before the first GOP primary ballots are cast.
A full year out from the 2024 presidential election and nearly two months before Republicans cast their first primary ballots, President Joe Biden and his campaign are assuming that Donald Trump will be his opponent and have already started reminding voters why they threw him out of office in the first place.
Biden personally has stepped up criticism of his coup-attempting predecessor and is framing the likely rematch as one that will determine the survival of American democracy.
“The same man who said we should terminate the rules and regulations and articles of the Constitution — these are things he said — is now running on a plan to end democracy as we know it,” he said last week at a fundraiser in Chicago.
“This next election is different. It’s more important. There’s more at stake. And we all know why: Because our very democracy is at stake,” he told a San Francisco audience on Wednesday.
In all measurable ways, Biden is more progressive than Obama, and Obama was more progressive than Bill. It’s preposterous to say the democrats are backsliding.
Obama didnt spearhead efforts to outlaw a union strike. Obama’s climate bill wasnt poisoned with millions of acres of new oil drilling permits. Biden hasnt made any progress on Obamacare. Workers rights are shit, climate is shit, healthcare is shit, abortion is illegal again. As for Bill to Obama, Bill raised minimum wage, the last time it’s gone up under a democratic president, and he raised taxes on the wealthy more than Obama, who raised taxes more than Biden, who has not done anything with the wealthy’s tax rate.