One Democratic strategist is sounding the alarm over what he expects President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party to use as their main line of attack against former President Donald Trump in a likely 2024 matchup.

Ruy Teixeira compared what appears to be Biden's 2024 strategy to one that Democrats used the last time they lost to Trump. "What did [Hillary Clinton] run on?” Teixeira asked during an interview on the Playbook Deep Dive podcast.

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The co-author of Where Have All the Democrats Gone?, alongside John Judis, explained that campaigning against Trump's personality and rhetoric, or his "MAGA extremism," may not be effective.

"It was all about how bad Donald Trump was, what a bad person he was, how sexist he was, how racist he was," he said of Clinton's 2016 bid.

Trump, however, "talked about issues," Teixeira noted. "You may not have liked how he talked about issues, and he may not have been very specific, but he talked about issues, whereas Hillary talked about Bad Orange Man."

Despite the author's concern, Biden-adjacent strategists and aides have pointed to wins in the 2022 midterm elections and the 2023 statewide off-year elections as evidence that tying candidates to the MAGA slogan is effective. But others, such as Teixeira, warn the only example of this in a presidential race aside from 2020 is 2016, when Clinton lost on the strategy.

Instead, he said Biden needs to seek out voters in the middle who are perhaps disillusioned by Trump's right wing and the "cultural radicalism" within the Democratic Party.

He pointed to successes in Alaska, where "they've allowed more oil and gas permits than any previous administration, and that's a lot of the reason why the energy situation hasn't gotten as dire." But Biden hasn't highlighted this, Teixeira said, for fear of the progressive wing.

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Biden also missed an opportunity to promote his action on the southern border, he noted. "He did this thing recently where we're going to allow a certain portion of the wall to be built between the U.S. and Mexico."

"But the immediate take on that was, 'Well, you know, they forced me to do it. They put a gun to my head. It's in the law.' And they're not going to talk about that," Teixeira said. "They're not going to talk about border security."