Joe Biden’s “Dark Brandon” strategy of going full authoritarian against Americans who dare disagree with Democrats’ agenda to grow his 2024 voter base failed miserably.
Now he’s turning to a new strategy that will also surely backfire.
And Joe Biden hit Donald Trump with one vicious insult he’ll live to regret.
For months now, poll after poll has shown that former President Donald Trump is leading President Joe Biden both nationally and in the top-seven battleground states many believe will ultimately decide the election.
Trump leading the race is obviously significant in its own right, but it’s also a stark departure from both 2016 and 2020 polling – former First Lady Hillary Clinton and Biden both held strong leads over Trump in polling throughout both election cycles.
The reality that not even their own warped polls are able to show Biden leading – not to mention the fact that Trump’s lead only seems to be growing – is starting to set in for Democrats.
As a result, they’re once again turning to one of their favorite political strategies: moving the goalposts.
After decades of Democrats and their media allies pointing to polls they exclusively control and manipulate as the Holy Grail of political forecasting, they’re now trying to convince voters that Presidential campaigns’ performance in fundraising is actually a far more important metric than how they’re actually performing in polling.
With both Trump and the Republican National Committee having to fork out tens of millions of dollars to fight Democrats’ many witch hunts against him, fundraising for his 2024 campaign is down across the board.
As usual, the overwhelming majority of elitist RINO donors have balked at supporting his campaign the same way they have establishment candidates in the past, leaving him nearly solely dependent on the small-dollar donations provided by working class Americans – once again, the real fight isn’t Left vs. Right, but rather, the working class vs. the ruling class.
President Biden, on the other hand, is raking in cash from his fellow ruling class elites, filing his campaign coffers to the point he has over $150 million in cash on hand, according to a recent report from The Associated Press.
Just this past week, as Trump took time to attend the wake of New York Police Department Officer Jonathan Diller, who was killed during a routine traffic stop by a career criminal who was repeatedly let back onto the streets thanks to Democrats’ woke policies, Biden held a massive fundraiser in the city.
With former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, as well as celebrities like recording artist Lizzo, and actors Ben Platt and Mindy Kaling, all in attendance, Biden raked in an unprecedented $25 million in donations from that single event.
Rather than even mentioning Officer Diller, the Biden campaign seized on Biden’s fundraising haul in a bid to bait Trump into engaging in a back-and-forth over fundraising, which would inevitably pull all the attention away from his failing policies and disastrous approval rating.
“Trump is ‘scrambling’ to raise cash as he lags behind President Biden in fundraising. Instead of closing the gap to fund his campaign, he is fundraising to pay his legal bills and relying on donors to finance his bond,” a Biden campaign memo read.
According to the Biden campaign, their New York City event raised $5 million more than the Trump campaign raised in all of February, nearly double Trump’s January fundraising haul, more than Trump’s December and January fundraising totals combined, more than double the entire Republican National Committee’s (RNC) total cash on hand, and more than the RNC has raised since the start of 2024.
“This one night builds on the trend of Team Biden-Harris absolutely lapping the Trump campaign in fundraising. The Trump campaign raised $20 million in February, comically less than half the $53 million Team Biden-Harris raised in February. Today, the Trump campaign has less than $42 million cash on hand, which is less than one-third of the $155 million cash on hand that Team Biden-Harris has,” the Biden campaign’s memo added.
Of course, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign raised over $1.2 billion – far more than Trump’s $600 million – and was still unsuccessful in stopping him from winning that race.
In the end, the Biden campaign is desperate to change the narrative hanging over the 2024 election that the Democrat President is destined to serve just one term in office.
But bragging about the hundreds of millions of dollars they’re raising from their fellow ruling class elites might not be the winning strategy they hope.
Political Animal News will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.