{"id":2284674,"date":"2024-06-27T14:13:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T18:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-camp-hunts-for-trump-missteps-while-bashing-cheap-fakes-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-06-27T14:20:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T18:20:21","slug":"biden-camp-hunts-for-trump-missteps-while-bashing-cheap-fakes-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-camp-hunts-for-trump-missteps-while-bashing-cheap-fakes-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden camp hunts for Trump missteps while bashing \u2018cheap fakes\u2019 &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-camp-hunts-for-trump-missteps-while-bashing-cheap-fakes-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2284674&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The White House is actively countering \u2064the Republican narrative that President Joe Biden\u200d is experiencing mental\u2062 decline by labeling GOP-shared \u200cvideo clips, which purport to show Biden&#8217;s stumbles, as misinformative &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-goes-motionless-at-swanky-fundraiser-and-gets-led-offstage-by-obama-white-house-responds\/\" title=\"Biden Becomes Unresponsive at High-End Fundraiser, Escorted Offstage by Obama - White House Issues Statement\">cheap fakes<\/a>.&#8221; These edited\u200c clips are contrasted with more comprehensive versions which reveal a different context.\u2064 Simultaneously, Biden&#8217;s advisors\u2062 are aggressively highlighting questionable moments from Donald Trump, suggesting that he \u200btoo is unfit for presidency. This back-and-forth forms part of a broader strategy to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/four-ways-hunter-biden-could-drag-down-joe-biden-in-2024\/\" title=\"Potential pitfalls for Joe Biden in 2024 due to Hunter Biden\">influence \u200bpublic perception<\/a> as \u200dBiden, \u200cthe oldest U.S. president, and Trump, who is slightly younger, prepare for the upcoming elections. Success amid this high-stakes media strategy is still uncertain, as voter skepticism about both candidates&#8217; fitness persists.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>White House<\/a> is countering Republican attempts to paint President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden<\/a> as in mental decline with a strategy that casts GOP-cut videos of his alleged stumbles as misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s advisers even believe they can go on offense with their own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jamie-raskin-should-have-kept-his-mouth-shut\/\" title=\"Jamie Raskin should have remained silent\">social media scrutiny<\/a> of apparent missteps by former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a> on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p>Voters have consistently cited Biden\u2019s age as a concern as they weigh whether to give him a second term as president. Trump, his Republican rival, is not much younger, but Biden\u2019s seeming forgetfulness, reinforced by a bombshell report from special counsel Robert Hur earlier this year, has become a focal point in the 2024 contest.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican National Committee has found viral success amplifying the narrative by sharing clips of Biden at official and campaign events from its account on X, while the Trump campaign has taken a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TrumpWarRoom\/status\/1802782381822156978\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>similar approach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is a perception the White House has been saddled with for much of Biden\u2019s presidency. He is the oldest president in U.S. history and would be 86 at the end of a second term, while Trump\u2019s long-winding speeches and campaign schedule have so far largely insulated him from the same critiques.<\/p>\n<p>Biden is sure to face the same scrutiny at Thursday\u2019s presidential debate, his first with Trump since 2020, where Republicans will be hoping to seize on any verbal blunders.<\/p>\n<p>However, the White House believes it can flip the narrative on its head with a two-part campaign to cast doubt on the authenticity of Republicans\u2019 video clips while sharing footage of Trump they say will reinforce the idea he is unfit for office.<\/p>\n<p>The White House has dubbed the GOP clips as \u201ccheap fakes,\u201d a play on the recently coined term \u201cdeepfake.\u201d Cheap fakes selectively edit or crop video with the goal of promoting a narrative, while deepfakes use technology, including artificial intelligence, to manufacture the videos entirely.<\/p>\n<p>In one recent instance, a video seemingly showed Biden trying to sit in an \u201cinvisible\u201d chair while in France, whereas the chair comes into view in the full clip.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans say there is no need to deceptively edit the videos and that Biden\u2019s demeanor is to blame for voter impressions about his age. But the White House has attempted to discredit the \u201cbad faith\u201d videos altogether by highlighting examples in which the clips were debunked by fact checkers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne dimension to this is defense, but sometimes good defense can turn into offense in the sense that it might introduce people to the idea that, \u2018Wait a second, maybe the next time that I see one of these, I should be skeptical,&#8217;\u201d a senior White House official told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That is only one-half of the approach by Biden\u2019s advisers, however. The official noted that the Biden campaign routinely goes on \u201chonest\u201d offense with a focus on Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign confirmed the approach, telling the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> that staffers are keeping eyes on \u201cevery moment of Donald Trump\u2019s every move\u201d and amplifying what campaign officials called \u201chis unhinged rants, threats of political violence, and promises to ban abortion nationwide in real time and making sure voters see them on their feeds and understand the stakes of this election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s campaign launched its BidenHQ social brands in September 2023, with accounts logging nearly 2 billion impressions since then and doubling their rate of growth in 2024 compared to 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump and MAGA Republicans have to resort to pathetically manipulating and distorting footage of President Biden because they can\u2019t successfully attack his record of delivering results for the American people,\u201d Biden campaign spokesperson Mia Ehrenberg told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. \u201cMeanwhile, Trump\u2019s extreme rants look deranged and unhinged without any editing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Trump campaign discounted the Biden campaign\u2019s defense, arguing that the former president, who is just under four years younger than Biden, is \u201csharp as a tack as evidenced by his hour-long off-script rally speeches, near daily interactions with the hostile news media, and incomparable memory recall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur team is simply posting real videos of brain-dead Joe Biden for the American people to see,\u201d Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said in a statement to the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. \u201cThe Biden campaign\u2019s team, made up of imbecilic junior staffers, is working overtime to cut out-of-context clips of President Trump\u2019s words, like the infamous \u2018Bloodbath\u2019 hoax which was quickly debunked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear whether the war for viral moments on social media will do much to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/it-was-just-a-tsunami-leader-of-powerful-democratic-org-says-nobody-expected-such-a-narrow-victory-for-murphy-in-nj\/\" title=\"\u2018It Was Just A Tsunami\u2019: Leader Of Powerful Democratic Org. Says \u2018Nobody\u2019 Expected Such A Narrow Victory For Murphy In NJ\">change voter perceptions<\/a>. Voters were almost twice as likely, 67% to 37%, to describe Biden as too old to be president compared to Trump in a Gallup poll released Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>But the Biden team is relying on what it calls a network of \u201ctrusted messengers\u201d who have countered Republican lines of attack since he entered office to make a dent in that impression. The group, which includes both traditional grassroots organizers and social media influences, is being used to help challenge \u201ccheap fakes\u201d as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe coordinate with those folks on just about everything, whether it\u2019s like an announcement that we\u2019re making, like the immigration one last week, or if we\u2019re responding to some kind of criticism,\u201d a senior White House official told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. \u201cBecause we think that you basically always have to give everybody the same resources to try and break through because breaking through is increasingly hard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of people that don\u2019t take in any news, and you\u2019re hoping that you can just get across to them,\u201d that person continued. \u201cSo it\u2019s wise to just try and make sure that everybody who amplifies you has the same song sheet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The debate will yet again provide a chance for each side to clip the moments they see as portraying their opponent in the worst light, but one veteran Democratic operative predicted voters seeing both men onstage for 90 minutes will give the public a truer impression.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not a surprise Republicans are resorting to these cheap gimmicks to try to damage President Biden, and given just how close this race is, it\u2019s too soon to say if voters are listening to either side over the other,\u201d the operative told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. \u201cThat\u2019s why this debate is going to be so critical. It\u2019s one thing to see some clip be edited and taken out of context, as opposed to both men appearing in the same space to pitch voters on their visions for America.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House is combating GOP claims of President Biden&#8217;s mental decline by labeling edited videos of his stumbles as misinformation. Biden&#8217;s team plans to highlight former President Trump&#8217;s missteps on social media, turning the tables on Republicans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2645,"featured_media":2284675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/biden-cheap-fake-age-defense.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[3620,4087,3728,3634],"class_list":["post-2284674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-biden","tag-campaign","tag-election","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/biden-cheap-fake-age-defense.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2284674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2284675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}