According to an exclusive Axios report, President Biden is privately telling aides that Team Biden needs to be more aggressive in going after likely 2024 opponent former President Donald Trump.
From Axios:
Why it matters: Biden is convinced he’ll rattle Trump if he taunts him daily.
Biden has told friends he thinks Trump is wobbly, both intellectually and emotionally, and will explode if Biden mercilessly gigs and goads him — “go haywire in public,” as one adviser put it.
- Other sources tell us that Biden is looking for a fight.
- Biden’s instincts tell him to let it fly when warning about the consequences of Trump winning the presidency again. Biden told The New Yorker that Trump would refuse to admit losing, again.
Between the lines: The “trigger Trump” approach would be a departure from a traditional Rose Garden re-election campaign.
- Instead of focusing on jobs and the economy — areas in which polls suggest Americans aren’t giving Biden much credit — Biden would be making the contest as much about Trump as his own accomplishments.
- One potential upside: It would help assuage concerns about Biden’s age by showing that at 81, he can still throw a Scranton punch.
Full report over at Axios:
As he privately pushes for a more aggressive approach to 2024, Biden has told friends he thinks Trump is wobbly, both intellectually and emotionally — and will explode if Biden mercilessly gigs and goads him.
"Loser" has been his favorite taunt lately. https://t.co/BYy6xbtMjE
— Axios (@axios) March 5, 2024
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