New memo: Trump team accuses Biden of being a ‘real and compelling threat to our Democracy
Trump Campaign Declares Biden the Real Threat to Democracy
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign is using President Joe Biden’s and his campaign’s strategy against them, declaring the president the real “threat to our Democracy” in a new memo.
Trump campaign managers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles addressed the state of the 2024 race in an email Tuesday, mostly brushing off the approaching Republican nominating contests and framing the election as a matchup between Trump and Biden.
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In the email, Wiles and LaCivita warn readers that “Joe Biden and his allies are a real and compelling threat to our Democracy.”
“In fact, in a way never seen before in our history, they are waging a war against it,” the campaign managers wrote.
The memo from Trump’s campaign flips the script on the attack frequently used by Biden and his campaign that have posited Trump as a threat to democracy instead. During a campaign reception in Bethesda, Maryland, last month, Biden said that “the greatest threat Trump poses is to our democracy.”
He continued, “Because if we lose, we lose everything.”
Biden’s campaign manager, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, similarly attacked Trump as a threat, saying the “threat Donald Trump posed in 2020 to American democracy has only grown more dire since then.”
“We are treating this election like it will determine the fate of American democracy – because it will,” she said in a campaign memo. “He is running a campaign on revenge and retribution – and at the expense of Americans’ freedoms.”
Biden’s campaign did not provide comment to the Washington Examiner.
However, the memo also is not the first time that Trump has moved to position Biden as the enemy of democracy and not the other way around. At a campaign event last month in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Trump accused Biden of “weaponizing government against his political opponents like a third world political tyrant.”
“Biden and his radical left allies like to pose as standing up as allies of democracy,” he said. But, Trump claimed, “Joe Biden is not the defender of American democracy; Joe Biden is the destroyer of American democracy.”
In the memo, Trump’s campaign officials began by denouncing the “unprecedented indictments by the political opposition” against Trump, which they argue aren’t simply aimed at the former president but are actually “indictments against millions of freedom-loving, hardworking Americans across this country.”
According to LaCivita and Wiles, “These Deep State actors are hell-bent on marching your kids into another foreign war, taking away your rights under the Constitution, and leaving America’s sovereignty in question.”
However, they said, “The only thing in their way is President Trump and those willing to stand up, go vote, and be counted.”
The recent actions by the Colorado Supreme Court and the Maine secretary of state to bar Trump from the states’ respective ballots in 2024 are a fail-safe, per the memo, in the event that the indictments don’t “provide the results for which they had hoped.”
“Never in American history have these types of tactics been deployed by an opposition party,” they continue.
Wiles and LaCivita treated the Republican race, for which the first nominating contest takes place in two weeks in Iowa, as an afterthought in the memo. They noted Trump’s still commanding lead over his opponents in national measures, as well as in early states Iowa and New Hampshire.
As for former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley’s rise in the poll, still leaving her double digits below Trump, they accuse Haley of attempting to “co-opt and take over a GOP nominating contest with non-Republicans and Democrats, hoping that a ’Coalition of the unwilling’ is enough to slow President Trump down.”
In a statement to the Washington Examiner, Haley spokeswoman AnnMarie Graham-Barnes said, “There’s a reason Donald Trump is spending millions attacking Nikki with false ads: Nikki is surging and Trump is scared.”
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Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign also responded to the Trump campaign memo’s implication that the primary is over, saying in a statement, “Get ready for a big surprise on January 15!” when the Iowa caucuses will take place.
The Trump officials hit the nominating contests in early states as “horseraces,” which it noted national media are focused on. The campaign, however, is focused on Trump’s broader campaign effort and confident in their plan to win, it added.
How does the memo argue that Donald J. Trump defends American democracy?
Standing in their way is Donald J. Trump.”
The memo highlights Trump’s stance as a defender of democracy, pointing to his efforts to protect American jobs, secure the border, and appoint conservative judges to uphold the Constitution. It also mentions his America First policies, which prioritize the needs and interests of American citizens.
Meanwhile, the memo accuses Biden of promoting policies that undermine democracy, such as open borders, amnesty for illegal immigrants, and the Green New Deal, which it claims would lead to job losses and economic decline. It also criticizes Biden’s handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal, arguing that it jeopardized American national security and betrayed allies.
The Trump campaign managers conclude the memo by urging supporters to rally behind Trump in order to defend American democracy from the threats they believe Biden and his allies pose.
The declaration by the Trump campaign that Biden is the real threat to democracy comes as both parties gear up for the 2024 presidential election. The memo serves as a preview of the arguments and strategies that are likely to be at play during the campaign season.
While the Trump campaign’s declaration may be seen as a political tactic to sway public opinion, it also reflects the deep polarization and divisiveness in American politics. Both sides of the aisle view the other as a threat to democracy and paint themselves as the guardians of American values.
As the 2024 race continues to unfold, it is clear that the battle for the soul of American democracy will be fiercely fought. The rhetoric and messaging from both campaigns will play a crucial role in shaping public perception and ultimately determining the outcome of the election.
Only time will tell how the American people will respond to these competing narratives and which candidate they will deem as the true defender of democracy.
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