Biden fundraises off Trump’s Iowa win: ‘He’s the clear front runner’
Biden fundraises off Trump’s Iowa win: ‘He’s the clear front runner’
President Biden on Monday night issued a plea for supporters to donate to his campaign in the wake of former President Trump’s victory in Iowa. “Looks like Donald Trump just won Iowa. He’s the clea…
President Biden on Monday night issued a plea for supporters to donate to his campaign in the wake of former President Trump’s victory in Iowa.
“Looks like Donald Trump just won Iowa. He’s the clear front runner on the other side at this point,” Biden wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
“But here’s the thing: this election was always going to be you and me vs. extreme MAGA Republicans. It was true yesterday and it’ll be true tomorrow,” Biden added, posting a link to a fundraising page.
"Don't vote for a rapist" is a fine platform to run on at this point, where conservatives are ready to vote for a rapist.
Biden is getting way too much shit for explicitly saying that voting for him is better than voting for a rapist.
This is not his fault, go call your grandma names for voting into the two party system, this dichotomy had been perpetuated for decades.
Biden is the better presidential candidate, and by far the better president, running as a contrast to a rapist traitor is an understandable salient facet of his platform.
It isn't all of it, but if a large minority is ready to vote for a rapist, saying "I don't support rape, if you don't support rape vote Dem" is a good starting campaign point to let the majority know where you stand.
You aren't voting for two rapists.
You're voting for trump, a rapist, or Biden, a center politician who has made several responsible ethical and moral policy decisions in his first term that have benefited the majority of the country.
"Insurrectionist" is too long a word for most Americans.
I think "don't vote for a rapist" works quite nicely.
if it wasn't for the whole, bypassing congress to sell weapons to a country actively engaged in genocide... i'd say biden is the clear winner...
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but now they're going to beat that horse to death, and i can't personally justify it...
except that trump would've done worse...and now bypassing congress to bomb Yemen/Houthi rebels....
"the other guy is worse" is not an argument to vote for somebody. it's an argument to not vote for the other guy.
there are lots of people who are not trump, and all this astroturfing from biden is really doing is making sure a shitty candidate (Biden) is running.
We can and should do better, and the DNC is going to be hard pressed to get a Biden victory where anyone more progressive than a stick in the mud is likely to win without even trying.
"The other guy is worse" is a valid reason, especially if the other guy is actually far worse, like here.
The better candidate is who you want to vote for.
Also, Biden is a good candidate. His administration rejoined climate agreements, had made actual investments in green technology, American manufacturing, paying off student debt, the usd is stronger than it's been in decades.
vs. a rapist who personally committed election fraud.
These are not similar candidates.
Trump is a rapist who personally committed election fraud, Biden is a career-middle executive-left president who has made real-life policy decisions that help people
No amount of money is going to convince hardcore maga to vote for anyone else.
Won't the money be spent trying to scare anyone who's anti trump into not staying at home come voting day?
Yes. Politics nowadays is less about winning the argument and more about actually getting your supporters to show up.
There still is a long way to go. Somewhere around mid April will start retail politics and the real election narrative will be set.
It's going to come down to Abortion, Education, and Store prices during the general election. Most Americans are not invested in Israel or Ukraine.
If prices come down before Nov, Biden should win based on how Virginia turned out during it's latest election. But it will be a close election.
I just checked out the comments on that twitter post. Yikes, that's quite the shit show :D
Fingers crossed for your election, guys!
Even if it is bots behave like it isn't. Go out and vote.
Weird how Elon kept whining about bots being rampant until it came out that half of his followers were bots and Twitter started bleeding users and advertisers.
I love the title cutting off a very important part of the quote. You guys are just helping spread fear.
Which part?
“Looks like Donald Trump just won Iowa. He’s the clear front runner on the other side at this point,” that's the full quote. The quote fragment in the title makes it seems like Biden is admitting that Trump is ahead of him. Welcome to modern "journalism" and MicroWave is just a post farm so it doesn't care what "information" it spreads.
You know... if he really cared about beating trump in november, he should step down and then campaign for his successor.
He's said the only reason he's running is trump...
But also he said "50 other Dems" could beat trump.
So it seems like less that he's running to stop trump from winning, and more knowing trump is his easiest opponent.
If all he cares about was stopping trump, yeah, he wouldn't have ran in the 2020. Let alone 2024 when he's polling even worse.
Like Clinton before him, he's willing to risk trump because he thinks trump is one of the few candidates that would make someone vote D to prevent.
Biden’s campaign slogan, forever and always: “Yeah, I might stab you in the stomach with a pitchfork, but at least I’m not Trump!”
But that's better than getting shot in the face.
Yeah, a hundred percent. I’m mocking the fact that Biden’s got nothing going for him aside from not being Trump. Which is definitely something, don’t get me wrong. But it fucking sucks
a younger candidate puppet would have drawn in the millenials/genz vote this time around but boomers gonna boom..
We need a serious 3rd party candidate to step forward. I'm tired of have to choose the least bad candidate.
We can't have a third party that is viable while we have first past the post voting. We need election reform to include new voting procedures like ranked choice voting or something similar along with the elimination of gerrymandering.
This is America. A 3rd candidate would just be the lesser of 3 evils.
I'd vote for a monkey over either of these old shit heads.
Trump is a massive POS human.
Definitely tremendously worse than dumb, creepy Joe.
"My name is not Trump. Please donate money to me." - Biden
biden thinks it is him and the citizens he kept down struggling versus trump who did the same
fucking laughable this guy thinks he can do a piss poor quartered assed at best job and thinks we should just blindly follow
This is the best summary I could come up with:
President Biden on Monday night issued a plea for supporters to donate to his campaign in the wake of former President Trump’s victory in Iowa.
He’s the clear front runner on the other side at this point,” Biden wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
News outlets called Iowa for Trump roughly 30 minutes after the caucuses officially got underway.
Polling in other early primary states, such as New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, also show Trump leading.
Biden used his first campaign speeches of 2024 to warn that Trump poses a grave threat to U.S. democracy, citing his refusal to accept the 2020 election results, his refusal to condemn political violence and his vows for revenge if reelected.
Trump, speaking to supporters Monday in Des Moines on Monday night, slammed Biden as “the worst president we’ve had in the history of our country.”
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