Inside Biden's anti-Trump battle plan (and where Taylor Swift fits in) - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : There are also plans, first reported Sunday by NBC News, to hold a fundraiser with two Democratic former presidents: Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, according to two people familiar with the discussions.
40% : "In a race without historical parallel -- a contest between two presidents, one of them facing 91 criminal charges -- Biden is making an extraordinary gamble, betting that Trump remains such an animating force in American life that the nation's current leader can turn the 2024 election into a referendum not on himself but on his predecessor.
38% : He sent two of his most trusted White House operatives to take the helm of his reelection campaign in Wilmington, Delaware, after Trump seized control of the Republican primary race more rapidly than Biden's advisers had initially expected.
34% : "Yet the election will not be about Trump in a vacuum.
26% : The president's aides plan to couple a direct assault on Trump with a heavy focus on abortion rights, casting the issue as symbolic of larger conservative efforts to restrict personal freedoms.
25% : They believe that the more the public sees and hears Trump, the less people will be inclined to vote for him, and the more the Biden campaign will be able to use his words on issues like abortion and health care against him.
24% : In the 2020 campaign, Clyburn said, "people were voting against Trump.
24% : ""We just can't rely on this anti-Trump stuff because Trump's supporters are going to turn out big, because they are emotionally tied to Trump," he went on.
23% : "The lesson of the last seven years for us in Michigan after Trump won was, a Democrat with outrage is fine -- a Democrat with a plan is powerful," Slotkin said.
19% : They think an anti-Trump message about democracy can persuade Democratic voters to line up behind Biden and win over independents who backed Trump in 2020 but disapprove of his behavior since.
16% : Polls have shown Biden trailing Trump in a head-to-head contest, with many Democratic voters reluctant to back him again.
13% : Resurrecting a version of the argument that worked for them in 2020, Biden's team and his top allies plan to paint Trump as a mortal threat to American government and civil society, and are banking that fears of another turbulent Trump administration will outweigh worries about Biden's age and vitality.

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