The US presidential election campaign is heating up. The president, Joe Biden, has decided to go on the attack with an advertising campaign in which he describes his rival, Donald Trump, as a “deranged criminal.” He will invest about 50 million dollars, with the focus on the decisive states in which the Presidency will be at stake in the November 5 elections. The ad portrays Trump as a “unhinged man who will do anything for power, revenge and retribution,” Biden’s campaign says in a statement, although he does not use that word in the ad.
Biden has begun to take advantage of the conviction against Donald Trump for 34 crimes of falsification of invoices, checks and accounting records as an electoral argument. In her first public appearance after the conviction, she limited herself to sending the message that “no one is above the law” and has avoided entering into body-to-hand combat at official events. The campaign, however, is something else.
The Democratic candidate for re-election already took advantage of a closed-door fundraising event in Greenwich, Connecticut, to openly call his predecessor a “convicted felon.” Now, he is betting on that message as a line of argument in the week prior to the first debate between both candidates, which will be held next Thursday in Atlanta (Georgia).
“In the courthouse we see Donald Trump as he is. “He has been convicted of 34 serious crimes, declared responsible for sexual assault and committed financial fraud,” says the narrator of the message approved by Biden, which combines the criminal verdict from a few weeks ago with the civil case in which he was tried and punished for fraud. in his businesses and the civil conviction for sexual abuse and defamation in the lawsuit he had with the writer and journalist E. Jean Carroll.
“This election is between a convicted criminal who only seeks his own benefit and a president who fights for your family,” states the Democratic campaign ad, which alternates images of Trump mostly in black and white with others of the president in full color where Some achievements of his mandate are presented. The advertisement will be broadcast on television and is also being broadcast in specific versions for social networks.
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“The campaign is launching a new ad laying out the choice Americans will see on the debate stage on June 27 between President Biden, fighting every day for the American people, and convicted felon Donald Trump, fighting for himself. ”Biden’s re-election campaign said in a statement.
There has been some debate among Democrats about how to use Trump’s convictions. They do not want to support his unfounded theory that his criminal problems are the result of political persecution by the current tenant of the White House, but neither do they want to waste the unprecedented fact that, for the first time in the history of the United States, one of the candidates of the two major parties, is a convicted felon.
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