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.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    That’s actually factually untrue.

    If a third party receives a certain percentage of the vote, they qualify for public funding.

    My vote serves a purpose even if it doesn’t elect the candidate the wealthy want elected.

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      That third party bullshit is why Trump was elected in the first place. We’re not in a time or area where we should be putting our votes in a third party. The country and our constitution is in danger, get the vote in for the people who aren’t fascists and then we can work on reforming the voting systems to allow more parties to have an actual shot at offices.

      Spoken as someone who felt third party was the way to go in 2016 and deeply regrets allowing bad shit to happen to my country

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      Fair point, I was being intentionally hyperbolic.

      @nexas_XIII is right though. Modern America’s two party system hasn’t shown to be compatible with a third party yet.

      Good luck.