President Joe Biden brings in Barack Obama again to help him attract small-dollar donors.
Biden and Obama appeared in a digital ad where the former president stood beside the 81-year-old president as he delivered his line: “Did you know that by pitching in the cost of a morning cup of Joe, you can help re-elect my friend Joe?”
Biden adds, “Whether it’s three dollars or more, no gift is too small to make a difference.”
“We all have a role to play in making sure that Donald Trump never steps foot in the Oval Office again.”
“We are relying on you,” Biden says.
This move is Biden’s attempt to engage his grassroots base to frustrate former President Trump’s bid to reclaim the presidency.
Recent polls show that despite Biden’s wide lead in fundraising, Trump is gaining ground in key demographics, especially among blacks, Latinos, younger voters, and even the LGBT community.
His campaign team crafted these digital ads to aid Biden’s slipping poll numbers.
Biden’s campaign chest reports $192 million in cash, while Trump has $93 million. The former president’s funds are affected by the persistent legal attacks by the left, forcing him to pay outrageous amounts of fees.
And if you’re wondering why Biden kept pulling the Obama card, the former president since last year expressed alarm with the elderly president’s current performance in polls.
According to a report, Obama and Biden met on at least two occasions and discussed the chances that he could lose the 2024 election.
A TIME Magazine article revealed that Obama met with Biden last June and advised the incumbent to be more aggressive and ensure that the presidential race was a referendum on Trump.
A source told the magazine that Obama warned Biden that his campaign was unstable, predicting that it would be harder for him to defeat Trump in this election than in 2020.
“This time, Obama’s message was more urgent. He expressed concern the re-election campaign was behind schedule in building out its field operations and bottlenecked by Biden’s insistence on relying upon an insular group of advisers clustered in the West Wing, according to the same Democratic insider,” TIME noted.
Unfortunately for Biden, his hopes of tying Trump down on a court hearing continue to fail.
His trials led him to campaign locally and engage more in marginalized sectors.
On April 10, he dropped by a Chick-fil-A in Atlanta, where his supporters, mostly black people, welcomed him. The former president bought a group of supporters 30 milkshakes, posed for pictures, and signed a MAGA hat.
After the second day of his bogus New York trial, he visited a bodega in Harlem, where a worker was charged with murder after a thief attacked him. The crowd, full of energy, chanted “Four more years!” while children screamed, “I love you, Trump!”
