


President Joe Biden's 2024 reelection campaign is refocusing its attention on former President Donald Trump as it becomes more and more likely he will be the Republican presidential nominee.
Trump, who has been federally indicted three times this year, is slated to deliver remarks in Windham, New Hampshire at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday afternoon. His appearance at Windham High School will be the first rally the former president has held since being arraigned last week on four counts relating to his action surrounding the Jan. 6 Capitol
riot, and the Biden campaign is using his speech as an opportunity to soft-launch its new messaging campaign.
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"Donald Trump failed New Hampshire as president like he failed all of America — with empty promises and an economic agenda that only served his friends and the ultra-wealthy," Kevin Munoz, a Biden campaign spokesman, told the Washington Examiner. "Now, he’s running on that same divisive and losing MAGA agenda that rips away fundamental freedoms, creates incentives to ship American jobs overseas, and gutsSocial Security and Medicare."
"President Biden has delivered where Donald Trump failed — helping create millions of jobs, lowering prescription drug costs, and working across the aisle to rebuild our roads and bridges — and Granite Staters will remember that next November," he continued.
Since entering office, Biden has never been shy about blaming legislative and other setbacks on "ultra MAGA" Republicans.
Just one week ago, the campaign sought to blame the previous administration and its policies for Fitch's decision to downgrade the US economy.
"This Trump downgrade is a direct result of an extreme MAGA Republican agenda defined by chaos, callousness, and recklessness that Americans continue to reject," the campaign said in a statement at the time. "Donald Trump oversaw the loss of millions of American jobs, and ballooned the deficit with the disastrous tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations."
However, sources familiar with Biden's campaign strategy now say that these "very aggressive" attacks against Trump will increase in the near future as he "solidifies in the primary."
Senior Democratic officials previously told the Washington Examiner that the president had hoped to avoid "punching down." Those people would say that by focusing his campaign on his economic and social agenda, Biden would make it impossible for voters not draw "clear" differences between Biden's policies and the Republican platform, regardless of the nominee.
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Despite Trump's legal problems, his standing in the 2024 Republican primary has solidified in recent weeks. Meanwhile, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), Trump's chief GOP competitor, is in the midst of overhauling his campaign staff amid financial concerns. He currently trails Trump by 38-points in Real Clear Poltics' polling aggregate, the widest such margin since DeSantis entered the race this spring.