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Video appeared on ex-president’s Truth Social account, prompting president’s campaign to warn ‘Trump is not playing games’
Good morning, US politics blog readers. The Biden campaign is on the offensive against Donald Trump after a video appeared on his Truth Social account that included the words “unified reich”. The text appears in the background of a 30-second clip that makes staple Trump campaign promises, such as closing the border and mass deportations, and it may have been lifted from Wikipedia, the Associated Press reports. But Joe Biden’s re-election operation insists that the video, which was posted during a lunch break in his business fraud trial in New York and remains online, is further proof of the ex-president’s dictatorial intent if he is returned to the White House. “America, stop scrolling and pay attention. Donald Trump is not playing games; he is telling America exactly what he intends to do if he regains power: rule as a dictator over a ‘unified reich,’” Biden-Harris campaign spokesman James Singer said in a statement last night.
The president is looking for an edge over Trump as he contends with polls that continue to show him trailing his predecessor in crucial swing states. We’ll see if this makes a difference.
Biden is scheduled for a lengthy day of campaigning, with a speech set at 1.30pm ET in Nashua, New Hampshire on legislation that expands health care to veterans exposed to toxins, followed by two campaign receptions in Boston in the evening.
It is primary day in a bunch of states, including Georgia, where Fani Willis, the Fulton county district attorney who is prosecuting Trump and others for election fraud, faces Democratic voters.
The Senate will vote Thursday on legislation to tighten immigration policy, Democratic majority leader Chuck Schumer announced yesterday, but the measure is certain to go nowhere in the Republican-led House of Representatives.
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