Wasting no time building momentum from his State of the Union speech, President Joe Biden on Friday announced a $30 million ad blitz over the next six weeks in seven key battleground states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
On Saturday, the president’s reelection campaign unveiled the first ad to be aired during the television offensive. “For You,” the one-minute spot, focuses on acquainting the public with Biden’s successes, and contrasting his commitments with those of former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
“Look, I’m not a young guy. That’s no secret,” Biden says while speaking directly to the camera. “But here’s the deal. I understand how to get things done for the American people.”
Biden then ticks through a list of what he sees as some of his biggest achievements: shepherding the country through the end of the COVID-19 pandemic; presiding over an economic recovery; capping insulin at $35 a month for Medicare beneficiaries; passing an infrastructure bill; and passing “the biggest law in history to combat climate change, because our future depends on it.”
Wherever relevant, Biden intersperses descriptions of his accomplishments with jabs at Trump’s record.
“For four years Donald Trump tried to pass an infrastructure law, and he failed,” Biden says as clips of Trump looking either sinister or goofy flash across the screen. “I got it done.”
While Biden is determined to pass a law codifying the abortion-rights standard laid out in the now-defunct Roe v. Wade ruling, he notes, “Donald Trump took away the freedom of women to choose” by appointing Supreme Court justices who struck down the constitutional right to an abortion.
“Donald Trump believes the job of the president is to take care of Donald Trump,” Biden concludes. “I believe the job of the president’s to fight for you, the American people.”
Biden’s campaign and allies were…
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