Both the president and his reelection campaign are going after his coup-attempting predecessor even before the first GOP primary ballots are cast.

Both the president and his reelection campaign are going after his coup-attempting predecessor even before the first GOP primary ballots are cast.

A full year out from the 2024 presidential election and nearly two months before Republicans cast their first primary ballots, President Joe Biden and his campaign are assuming that Donald Trump will be his opponent and have already started reminding voters why they threw him out of office in the first place.

Biden personally has stepped up criticism of his coup-attempting predecessor and is framing the likely rematch as one that will determine the survival of American democracy.

“The same man who said we should terminate the rules and regulations and articles of the Constitution — these are things he said — is now running on a plan to end democracy as we know it,” he said last week at a fundraiser in Chicago.

“This next election is different. It’s more important. There’s more at stake. And we all know why: Because our very democracy is at stake,” he told a San Francisco audience on Wednesday.

  • @Bernie_Sandals
    5•1 year ago

    Obama didn’t spearhead efforts to outlaw a union strike

    He would’ve if he had a situation like the rail strike happen under his watch.

    Obama’s climate bill wasn’t poisoned with millions of acres of new oil drilling permits.

    This article shows how Obama was just better with the optics of it, oil production still rose

    Biden hasnt made any progress on Obamacare

    Not for lack of trying. He’s not the one in Congress shooting it down any time healthcare reform bills show up.

    As for Bill to Obama, Bill raised minimum wage, the last time it’s gone up under a democratic president, and he raised taxes on the wealthy more than Obama

    Obama raised the minimum wage to 7.25$. This is also totally discounting the fact Bill embraced neoliberalism and hollowed out the New Deal welfare state even further with his “workfare” reforms.

    Biden, who has not done anything with the wealthy’s tax rate.

    Again, not for lack of trying. Build Back Better would’ve included taxes on the rich not as much as I would like for sure, but more than Obama or Bill.

    Biden also supports the PRO Act, the most pro-union piece of legislation in almost a century if it passes. so while the rail strike was disappointing, it’s disingenuous to say he is against worker rights.

    • blazera
      -7•1 year ago

      Im not saying millions of acres of new oil drilling as simply private production rising under Biden, I mean his hailed climate bill legislatively demands millions of new acres of oil drilling, going as far as barring federal land being used for renewable energy until more land is first leased for oil. Bernie brought it up but I think it mostly flew under the radar for people.

      The 7.25 min wage increase was actually a Bush legislation, just taking effect under Obama’s term.

      • @assassin_aragorn
        3•1 year ago

        And in spite of that drilling, analysis shows that the bill will result in 2030 having 35-45ish% less emissions than in 2005 (which seems to be the benchmark).

        I can assure you this has infinitely more impact and is more climate friendly than anything the Green Party has ever done. And it exists because of the drilling provisions that placated Manchin types into voting for it.

        Ideological purity fails the ideology. Democrats have accomplished a more environmentally friendly policy with a bill that has drilling for oil than any “pure” bills from Greens which never came to fruition.