President Joe Biden's campaign plans to highlight policy proposals by Donald Trump and his team as threats to democracy as the former president seems to have all but locked up the Republican nomination.
The president and his team have stepped up their attacks in recent days, after Trump slurred his political enemies as "vermin," which both Biden and the White House compared to language used by fascist dictators Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, and Democrats have noticed a shift in strategy, reported Semafor.
“The general election has begun,” said Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg. “It’s time now for the campaign to turn on, to adopt a general election posture, and to not only make their case, but to engage Trump more aggressively — which they’re now doing, and which I think is going to be effective and important.”
Democrats pointed to the president's personal involvement in the confrontational strategy, a shift from the more positive "Bidenomics" messaging, and a Biden campaign official said they planned to highlight controversial and ominous policies proposed by Trump's team “every day between now and Thanksgiving.”
“What we see is a failure to properly cover Donald Trump’s dangerous agenda,” the campaign official said. “I think we are filling that void.”
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Trump aides have privately admitted having his name in the same sentence as Hitler and Mussolini isn't good, but one adviser also said that having the word "vermin" next to Democrats in cable news chyrons was an “effective message,” and the adviser added that playing up press outrage tends to rally supporters.
Sources also said the "vermin" remarks had not been written into his Veterans Day remarks, and that comment closely resembled a message he posted on Truth Social the same day.
