{"id":2295803,"date":"2024-07-16T07:16:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T11:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-campaign-sends-mixed-messages-after-trump-attack-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-07-16T09:18:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T13:18:00","slug":"biden-campaign-sends-mixed-messages-after-trump-attack-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-campaign-sends-mixed-messages-after-trump-attack-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden campaign sends mixed messages after Trump attack &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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-campaign-sends-mixed-messages-after-trump-attack-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=2295803&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>Biden initially paused all ad\u200c reservations and campaign communications after the\u2063 attempt, but then launched renewed \u2062attacks against Sen. J.D. Vance, Trump&#8217;s\u2062 running mate. The article mentions \u200dhow\u200b Biden campaign officials were caught off guard by the\u200b assassination attempt and had\u2062 to adjust their plans\u200c for counterprogramming during the \u2064Republican National Convention. \u2063Biden and other top Democratic lawmakers have urged voters to &#8220;lower the\u2062 temperature&#8221; surrounding politics in the wake of the attack.\u200b The article also touches on concerns about\u2064 Biden&#8217;s fitness for office and his campaign&#8217;s efforts to\u200d ease worries among Democratic \u200cpower\u200b players. Despite \u2062some polls showing Trump gaining ground, \u2063Biden remains competitive in \u2062the race. The article concludes with concerns about \u2064how\u200c resuming regular campaign\u200c programming may affect voters\u2062 in light of the assassination attempt and accusations from prominent Republicans \u2062blaming Democrats&#8217; rhetoric\u200c for inciting violence against Trump.  <\/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\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">\n<div class=\"tdb-search-form-inner\"><input class=\"tdb-head-search-form-input\" placeholder=\" \" type=\"text\" value name=\"s\" autocomplete=\"off\"><button class=\"wpb_button wpb_btn-inverse btn tdb-head-search-form-btn\" title=\"Search\" type=\"submit\"><span>Search<\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Biden campaign whipsaws messaging after Trump assassination attempt and RNC<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-author-name-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-author-by\">By<\/span> <a class=\"tdb-author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/christian-datoc\/\">Christian Datoc<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2024-07-16T07:00:00-04:00\">July 16, 2024 7:00 am<\/time><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1703971\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Monday forced President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden<\/a>\u2018s campaign and supporters to strike a balance between lowering the nation\u2019s political temperature following the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump and launching renewed attacks against Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3059239\/trump-taps-j-d-vance-as-2024-vice-presidential-nominee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"newly minted running mate.\">running mate.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biden made the easy call over the weekend to immediately pause all ad reservations and outbound campaign communications following the Trump assassination attempt and urged voters in a nationally televised address to \u201clower the temperature\u201d surrounding the election.<\/p>\n<p>However, Vance\u2019s selection appeared to mark the end of campaign officials\u2019 brief silence on the airwaves.<\/p>\n<p>Biden campaign Chairwoman Jen O\u2019Malley Dillon in a Monday statement claimed that the reason Trump settled on Vance was \u201cbecause Vance will do what Mike Pence wouldn\u2019t on January 6: bend over backwards to enable Trump and his extreme MAGA agenda, even if it means breaking the law and no matter the harm to the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later Monday afternoon, O\u2019Malley Dillon, campaign spokesman T.J. Ducklo, and top Biden surrogate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) additionally attempted to tie Vance and Trump to Republican efforts to further curtail abortion nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign also lifted its temporary pause on fundraising, sending multiple solicitations to supporters through emails and a tweet from the president\u2019s account all pegged to Vance\u2019s selection as Trump\u2019s running mate.<\/p>\n<p>Bidenworld allies had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/secy-of-state-china-failures-allowed-pandemic-to-get-worse\/\" title=\"Secy. of State: China failures allowed pandemic to get worse\">previously voiced concerns<\/a> about the president\u2019s campaign options moving forward and questioned how long Biden can afford to sit on the sidelines given questions about his fitness for office.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden campaign declined to comment on this story beyond confirming that the president\u2019s pause on paid advertising still stands.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple Democratic operatives, however, told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> that Biden campaign officials and White House staff were caught off guard by the Saturday attempt on Trump\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats had developed a \u201crobust\u201d slate of counterprograming to run alongside the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this week, according to people familiar with the planning of those efforts. <\/p>\n<p>The Trump assassination attempt, and Biden\u2019s decision to halt outgoing campaign messaging while Trump recovers, upended those plans.<\/p>\n<p>Biden himself and a number of top Democratic lawmakers have urged voters to \u201clower the temperature\u201d surrounding politics following the attack on Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no place in America for this kind of violence, for any violence ever. Period. No exceptions. We can\u2019t allow this violence to be normalized,\u201d the president stated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3082172\/biden-lowering-temperature-politics-oval-office-address\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Sunday night<\/a>. \u201cUnity is the most elusive goal of all, but nothing is important as that right now. We\u2019ll debate and we\u2019ll disagree. That\u2019s not going to change. But it\u2019s going \u2014 we\u2019re not going to lose sight of the fact who we are as Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to reduce the rhetoric and the tone. I\u2019d urge folks to turn off their phones and get off of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russian-amphibious-ships-arrive-in-captured-ukrainian-city-of-berdyansk\/\" title=\"Russian Amphibious Ships Arrive in Captured Ukrainian City of Berdyansk\">social media today<\/a>. And take some time with your family and reflect on who we are as a nation and who we want to be,\u201d Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) said that morning in an interview on <em>Meet the Press.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden sets the tone for his campaign, but there\u2019s also a sense of urgency from aides to continue with this momentum,\u201d one veteran Democratic strategist told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Following the first 2024 debate with Trump, Biden launched a full-court press aimed at easing concerns about his candidacy among Democratic power players. <\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s outreach slowed, though never fully bottled, the drip of Democratic lawmakers calling on the president to exit the race, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/07\/14\/biden-trump-post-debate-polls-nbc-news-cbs-fox-00168085\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>string of polls<\/a> published over the weekend showed Biden remaining competitive with Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News now shows Trump up one on the president following the debate, compared to a 2-point Biden lead heading into Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also led Biden by 2 points in the NBC News poll, the same margin he held over the president in NBC\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americans-trust-non-mainstream-news-sources-as-much-as-mainstream-survey\/\" title=\"Americans Trust \u2018Non-Mainstream\u2019 News Sources As Much As \u2018Mainstream\u2019: Survey\">previous poll<\/a> in April.<\/p>\n<p>And CBS News\u2019s latest\u00a0battleground poll\u00a0shows Trump up 2 points over Biden across seven critical swing states, virtually unchanged from the week prior.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president appears to have fended off the worst calls for change atop the ticket, and the campaign needs to press his advantage,\u201d a Democratic operative close to the Biden campaign assessed. \u201cBut now, everything\u2019s out the window.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A third Democratic operative sounded anxious about how resuming Biden\u2019s regularly scheduled campaign programming might alienate some voters shocked by the assassination attempt on Trump, and even inflame voices blaming the administration for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Several prominent Republicans have openly accused Democrats\u2019 rhetoric of fomenting\u00a0violence against Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday is not just some isolated incident,\u201d Vance claimed over the weekend. \u201cThe central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led directly to President Trump\u2019s attempted assassination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor weeks Democrat leaders have been fueling ludicrous hysteria that Donald Trump winning re-election would be the end of democracy in America,\u201d House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), who, like Trump, was also previously shot in an act of targeted political\u00a0violence, wrote in a press release. \u201cClearly we\u2019ve seen far left lunatics act on violent rhetoric in the past. This incendiary rhetoric must stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reporters pressed White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on those claims during Monday\u2019s press briefing, but she stopped short of saying that Biden regretted any of his past rhetoric framing Trump as a threat to democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Later, in an interview with NBC News\u2019s Lester Holt, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3083943\/biden-admits-mistake-using-word-bullseye-talking-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"expressed regret\">expressed regret<\/a> over his use of the term \u201cbullseye\u201d when describing Trump.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biden stressed that he wasn\u2019t speaking literally and only meant to focus attention on Trump. His use of the word was scrutinized following the attempted assassination of Trump on Saturday, and it resulted in his backtracking.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign and Democratic National Committee are expected to resume their RNC counterprogramming later this week.<\/p>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1703971\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1703971\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden campaign had to adjust its messaging strategy following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump and the selection of Sen. J.D. Vance as Trump&#8217;s running mate. Biden initially paused all campaign communications and urged for a decrease in political tensions, but later resumed attacks on Vance. The campaign also lifted its fundraising pause and sent out solicitations tied to Vance&#8217;s selection. Democratic operatives were caught off guard by the assassination attempt and had to rethink their counterprogramming plans for the Republican National Convention. Biden and other Democrats called for unity and a reduction in political rhetoric following the attack. Despite concerns about Biden&#8217;s candidacy, polls showed him remaining competitive with Trump. The campaign now faces the challenge of resuming its regular programming without alienating voters or inflaming accusations of inciting violence against Trump. Biden expressed regret over his past rhetoric about Trump and the campaign plans to resume its RNC counterprogramming later in the week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2645,"featured_media":2295804,"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\/07\/biden-trump-assassination-timing.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[32245,35178,34961,32076],"class_list":["post-2295803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-biden-campaign","tag-mixed-messages","tag-trump-attack","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/biden-trump-assassination-timing.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295803","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=2295803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2295804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2295803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2295803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2295803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}