Both the president and his reelection campaign are going after his coup-attempting predecessor even before the first GOP primary ballots are cast.

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.

  • queermunist she/her
    520·
    7 months ago

    I will rightfully blame Biden for being a bad candidate and blame the Democratic Party for forcing Biden down our throats and making voters choose between Trump and Biden. That’s also how elections work.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      141·
      7 months ago

      Okay? But that still means that he can’t rightfully blame you for not voting for him if he loses. Despite what you said.

      • queermunist she/her
        216·
        7 months ago

        He can’t blame me for being unwilling to vote for genocide! He can blame himself for supporting genocide, because that’s my single issue. I disagree with Biden on so many things but this is the one thing I and many many other voters will not budge on.

        I’d literally rather kill myself than vote for genocide. Just, go to a polling station and cast a 9mm ballot into the roof of my mouth.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          122·
          7 months ago

          Again, if he loses, you are in part to blame. That’s just a fact. Everyone who doesn’t vote for him is to blame for him losing. This applies to all other presidential candidates.

          • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
            25·
            7 months ago

            By that logic we can blame you for Trump getting elected in the first place. You obviously didn’t vote for the right Democrat so it’s your fault.

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
              8·
              7 months ago

              Which Democrat is the “right” Democrat? Because I only remember one Democrat running against Trump in 2016 when he got elected.

                • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
                  3·
                  7 months ago

                  You said there was more than one. Please name the multiple democrats who were running against Trump in the general election.

                  Unless you were lying of course. Were you lying?

          • queermunist she/her
            315·
            7 months ago

            I am not to blame for when someone else loses. The loser is to blame for their own loss because they didn’t do what they needed to do to win.

            This twisted vote-brain logic will be the reason liberals support Trump when he restarts the Muslim bans or starts putting people in camps. “Well they should have voted for Biden, they’re just getting what they deserve.”