- The 2024 race is expected to be a battle of indecision and stumbling blocks
- President Joe Biden’s campaign is trying to highlight former President Donald Trump’s recent blunders in hopes of improving Biden’s poll numbers given his age
- Currently, more Americans are concerned about Biden’s age than Trump’s age, even though there are three and a half years between the two politicians
The 2024 race will be a slog full of insults and stumbling blocks when it ends up pitting 80-year-old President Joe Biden against 77-year-old former President Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner.
On Monday, Trump’s campaign spokesperson lashed out at Biden and drew attention to his final moments after The Messenger highlighted the Biden campaign’s plan to showcase a “confused” and “ambiguous” Trump.
In recent weeks, the rapid response account @BidenHQ has been mockingSticky sufferers‘ for tactics.
In one post, the Biden campaign account asked, “Is Donald Trump OK?” and included a series of highlights full of gaffes and strange moments.
“The Biden campaign, like its own candidate, must be confused because Biden is in a constant state of confusion, shuffling around like a Roomba and falling on his ass in front of the American people because he is weak and frail,” Trump spokesman Steven said Cheung said in a statement to on Monday morning, hitting back.
The account @BidenHQ
The Trump campaign has mocked Biden’s physical stumbles for months, with Trump straying off stage at his campaign rallies where he pretends to be the president.
“But what’s worse is that Biden is just stupid,” Cheung’s attack continued. “He doesn’t have the intelligence to lead a middle school book club, let alone the entire country.”
Polls have shown that voters are tougher on Biden at his age than on Trump, who is just three and a half years younger than the Democrat.
The latest disastrous New York Times/Siena poll found that 71 percent of voters in six battleground states think Biden is too old to be president, while 39 percent said the same about Trump.
The Associated Press-NORC poll last August showed a similar disparity, although the numbers were higher for both candidates — 77 percent said it was Biden and 51 percent — a majority — said it was Trump.
Biden’s campaign hopes to close that gap by also highlighting Trump’s mistakes.
“What the Biden campaign is amplifying are simply examples of Donald Trump’s erratic and dangerous behavior,” a Biden campaign official told The Messenger. “What we’ve seen fairly regularly is an imbalance in coverage when it comes to these things… What we’re doing is filling the void for a press corps that seems to have no interest in both Donald Trump and Donald Trump To report to Joe Biden. ‘Same.’
Trump’s team has highlighted Biden’s stumbles – both physical and verbal – including his fall over a sandbag in June at the US Air Force Academy’s commencement ceremony
A report released in late October by the left-leaning Media Matters found that among cable news networks, only the liberal MSNBC had covered four recent Trump mishaps and still devoted only 35 minutes to the topic.
Trump had confused the leaders of Turkey and Hungary, called Biden “Obama,” confused former President George W. Bush with his brother Jeb, the former Florida governor – suggesting it was Jeb, a 2016 Republican primary rival, was the Iraq war that brought the country into the election campaign.
The gaffe that received the most airtime on cable news was Trump’s statement that he would keep the country out of “World War II,” a conflict that ended 78 years ago.
Former Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill noted on MSNBC that Trump is a “gaffe machine of incompetence” and Democrats need to call that out.
She said she had spoken to Biden’s team about “punching Trump in the nose for his inability to lead and his incompetence.”
“I think it’s time for them to stop thinking that everyone’s going to say, ‘Oh God, Biden’s done a lot,'” McCaskill said. “And start focusing on the binary choice between someone who is a threat to our democracy and the world and someone who surrounds himself with strong, competent people and runs a competent government.”
The war on gaffes and stumbles in 2024: Trump campaign says Biden is “in a constant state of confusion, shuffling around like a Roomba” and is “weak and frail” – in response to the plan to attack the Donald’s missteps