Biden campaign rips page from Trump playbook with name-calling strategy

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President Biden’s 2024 campaign has employed a brand new strategy, one taken proper out of former President Donald Trump’s playbook: name-calling.

Trump, throughout his 2016 major campaign, referred to high Republican major opponents as “Lyin’ Ted” Cruz and “Little Marco” Rubio. He took jabs at Democrats like Sen. Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas” and Sen. Majority Leader “Cryin'” Chuck Schumer and Speaker of the House “Crazy Nancy” Pelosi.

He known as his 2016 presidential opponent “Crooked Hillary” after which, in 2020, known as Biden, “Crazy Joe.”

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The Biden camp distributed an electronic mail this week calling the president’s opponent “Broke Don” – a reference to Trump’s monetary troubles. The forty fifth president just lately didn’t safe an attraction bond to delay fee of the $464 million he owes, as a result of AG Letitia James’ civil investigation of The Trump Organization.

“Trump can’t raise money, isn’t campaigning, and is letting convicts and conspiracy theorists run his campaign,” the e-mail claims.

Trump has mocked Biden for years, saying the forty sixth president allegedly was avoiding the press and “hiding” in his Wilmington, Del. basement in the course of the 2020 race – which the e-mail seems to reference.

split screen images of President Biden (Left) and Donald Trump (Right)

The Biden campaign despatched an electronic mail calling Donald Trump “Broke Don” on Thursday. (Fox News)

“We have a guy that doesn’t come out of his basement,” Trump stated throughout a “FOX & Friends” look in 2020. “Somebody like Biden, he doesn’t know what to do.”

“He doesn’t come out because he can’t. He doesn’t take any questions from reporters… This guy doesn’t come out of his basement, and he hasn’t taken one question.”

Election filings that have been publicized on Wednesday confirmed that Trump raised $20 million for his campaign in February, whereas Biden’s campaign raised $53 million. Going into March, Trump’s camp had $41.9 million in hand, whereas Biden’s had $155 million.

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Reuters correspondent Nandita Bose tweeted a screenshot of the Biden campaign’s electronic mail titled “Not a Winning Campaign: Broke Don Hides in Basement” on Thursday.

Political strategist Ashley Hayek criticized the Biden campaign’s name-calling electronic mail whereas talking with Fox News Digital on Saturday.

“Crooked Joe’s campaign just can’t keep up,” Hayek stated. “Not only does he fail at mocking Teflon Don, he highlights his own department’s illegal seizure of the Trump empire, reminding Americans of the alarming overreach by his administration.”

“Gallup polling shows that 66% of Americans view the DOJ negatively, [which is] purely a reflection of his failure of leadership,” she added. “Biden would be better off running from the basement again.”