Biden Looks to Step Up Contrast with Trump

“The 2024 campaign year for President Joe Biden’s inner circle will largely be about carefully ratcheting up the intensity against Donald Trump, wary of voters becoming dulled to what they expect to be the former president’s ever wilder rhetoric and promises about what he would do if back in power,” CNN reports.

“Or, as some of the younger aides on Biden’s reelection campaign have been grimly joking, it’s about when to go ‘full Hitler’ – when the leading Republican candidate’s speeches and actions go so far that the Biden team goes all the way to a direct comparison to the Nazi leader rather than couching their attacks by saying Trump ‘parroted’ him.”

Said a senior Biden aide: “You have this moment in the first quarter where he is continuing to go full MAGA extremist now in order to shore up support in his own base. While he may be successful in that effort, if we do our job, we’ll point out that everything he’s saying is extreme and unpopular.”