Biden campaign hits Trump for planning to skip Milwaukee debate
MADISON – President Joe Biden’s marketing campaign on Friday accused former President Donald Trump of wanting “to keep away from showing in Wisconsin” because it appears possible the present Republican frontrunner will skip the primary GOP presidential main debate in Milwaukee subsequent week.
“In fact Donald Trump needs to keep away from showing in Wisconsin as a result of he is aware of Wisconsin is a state that illustrates his failed management,” Biden marketing campaign spokesperson Kevin Munoz mentioned in an announcement to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
The marketing campaign referenced Foxconn Expertise Group’s venture in Racine County that had promised 13,000 new jobs and had been touted by Trump however finally never came to fruition.
“Wisconsinites soundly rejected his ongoing efforts to ban abortion within the state’s Supreme Court docket election earlier this yr,” Munoz added. “He can’t disguise from the truth that Wisconsinites rejected him in 2020, and can reject the MAGA agenda once more in 2024.”
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The assault comes as Trump seems to be taking a move on attending the controversy, as an alternative planning to take part in a web based interview with former Fox Information host Tucker Carlson, in accordance with information reviews. The choice from the previous president would finish months of speculation as to whether he would be on stage in Milwaukee on Wednesday, although Trump has beforehand hinted he wouldn’t attend.
On his social media web site Reality Social on Thursday, Trump famous that he’s polling far forward of his Republican rivals, writing of the controversy: “Reagan did not do it, and neither did others. Folks know my File, one of many BEST EVER, so why would I Debate? I’M YOUR MAN. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
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A spokesperson for Trump in an announcement to the Journal Sentinel didn’t verify whether or not Trump plans to skip the controversy. “We look ahead to debating the failed insurance policies of a weak and failed Joe Biden — if he can get out of his basement lengthy sufficient,” the marketing campaign mentioned.
Democrats plan to use the Wednesday debate to aim to color Republicans as excessive and tie different candidates on stage to the previous president as a part of a sweeping media blitz. Officers from each the Biden marketing campaign and the Democratic Nationwide Committee can be on the bottom in Wisconsin partaking with voters.
They are going to put up three billboards round Milwaukee forward of the controversy that can try to distinction “the MAGA agenda with Biden’s file of accomplishments,” in accordance with Biden’s marketing campaign. One other cellular billboard truck will circle Fiserv Discussion board, the controversy venue.
Trump’s obvious determination to skip the controversy is a shot to each the Republican Nationwide Committee, which is organizing the controversy, and Fox Information, which can average the occasion. Each organizations had pushed Trump to attend in latest weeks. His determination additionally comes on the heels of his fourth felony indictment — this time from a prosecutor in Georgia who accused Trump of main a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election.
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Nonetheless, Trump is anticipated to have an effect on the controversy. Fox Information anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum told the Journal Sentinel this week that Trump will “be part of this debate whether or not he is there or not.”
A few of Trump’s strongest allies in Washington, together with Georgia U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Florida U.S. Reps. Matt Gaetz and Byron Donalds, plan to be in Milwaukee for the controversy, according to NBC News. Kari Lake, who misplaced a race for governor in Arizona and has since embraced false claims of election fraud, might additionally make an look.
The Republican Get together of Wisconsin had not responded to Trump’s obvious debate snub as of Friday afternoon.