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quick to anoint Trump as his 2024 rival
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While many in the country have hoped for different choices in November, Biden decidedly is not one of them. He sees a rematch with Trump as...his easiest path to reelection...
Biden wasted no time trying to anoint Trump as his head-on rival...the New Hampshire primary...
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[Biden's campaign team] launched campaign ads and raised money heavily off the prospect of
another Trump presidency... that’s only a preview... to remind Americans of what life was like
under Trump’s presidency and what he would do with another four years.
Biden campaign officials are confident that Trump will not win back voters he lost last time, particularly as the former president continues to deny the results of the 2020 election, defends those who perpetrated violence against police officers during the Jan. 6 insurrection and advocates what Democrats have framed as extremist tendencies and rhetoric.
While Biden’s team sees Trump’s coalition as fraying, they’re focused on stitching together their own coalition around issues like abortion access, health care and gun control.
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The Biden campaign has spent much of its early energy working out how to motivate what it has termed...“sporadic” voters — those who...yet...have not been focused on day-to-day political news and machinations.
Those voters, the Biden campaign believes, will ultimately back the incumbent president once the stakes of a Biden-Trump rematch are made clear. And that task, according to campaign officials, will be fundamentally easier because they don’t have to conjure up what a hypothetical president would do. Instead, Trump has an actual record they can point to.
“I mean, this is not an election of nuance or subtlety. ...said Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa. “All voters know what Trump is, who he is, and what he stands for, and the way he behaves.”
While Trump won in Iowa and New Hampshire, the contests exposed his vulnerabilities with the broader electorate, according to data from AP Vote Cast. He lagged in support among college graduates, people living in the suburbs and self-identified moderates. In New Hampshire, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley won 6 in 10 college graduates. She also won 6 in 10 moderates and split the suburbs with Trump.
Trump “has a rock-solid base of about 40%, but to win, you have to get to 51,” said Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., a co-chairman of Biden’s reelection campaign. “I think the outcome of the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primaries shows real challenges for Trump in the months ahead.”
The other major plank of the Biden campaign strategy is to continue to promote the president’s legislative achievements during his first term, and ensure that voters can connect tangible changes such as cheaper insulin costs and infrastructure investments in their communities to Biden himself.
...“the president has real accomplishments that I haven’t seen a president have in recent memory.”-Democratic Rep. Mark Pocan of Wisconsin.
Ahead of the primaries, there were concerns that the economy would be a drag on Biden in the election. But as inflation has eased and job growth continues, voters are starting to feel better about Biden’s handling of the U.S. economy.
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Nine in 10 Democratic voters in New Hampshire said they would vote for Biden in November, compared to just 6 in 10 Republicans...who said they would vote for Trump in the general election.
