WASHINGTON – When Donald Trump released his video President Joe Biden’s campaign was poised for provocation Monday morning over his stance on abortion, launching an aggressive strategy to undermine the presumptive Republican nominee’s record and Roe v. It fueled his desire to take credit for ousting Wade.
The re-election effort has mobilized every tool at its disposal in the past two days to take the fight directly to Trump on an issue it believes will be the most mobilizing for voters in November, he said, moving faster than other key. moments in the post-Roe era.
The more aggressive strategy underscores how the Biden campaign plans to go on the offensive on reproductive freedom, a larger effort clearly led by Vice President Kamala Harris.
Hours after Trump said it should be up to states to decide abortion policy — while refusing to say whether he would sign a national abortion ban if elected president — Biden already shot a direct-to-camera response videoRecorded at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, before taking a day trip to the Midwest.
In a coordinated broadcast, the Biden campaign was released later 60 second ad Texas woman nearly died twice in childbirth because she was denied care. It ended with “Donald Trump did it.”
Now after the Arizona Supreme Court almost certainly supported the abortion ban Since 1864, the Biden campaign plans to increase its paid media presence in the state with more abortion-related ads, a source familiar with the plan first told NBC News.
“Trump is running because he knows voters will hold him accountable for his extreme record on abortion — we’re not giving him an inch,” said Sarafina Chitika, a senior campaign spokeswoman.
Last week, Harris already told aides he wanted to hold an abortion-rights event in Arizona, with a decision likely this week, a person familiar with the discussions said.
After Trump’s video was released Monday, Harris stressed the need to act quickly, and her team rallied in Tucson on Friday with the mayor and abortion rights advocates.
But unlike previous reproductive freedom events Harris has officially headlined, this one will be by design, a campaign so she can go after Trump more forcefully and frame him as the one responsible for fixing the country’s abortion laws. , said a person familiar with the strategy.
Harris himself told his aides that he wanted to take a more aggressive approach to the matter and did not want to “waste time” at this critical moment.
Harris on the eve of the likely Arizona decision last week registered Here are some videos on the specifics of the 160-year-old abortion law, so the content is ready to go at a moment’s notice. The source said that he wrote them himself.
On Tuesday, Harris called Arizona’s attorney general and applauded him for “holding the line” and refusing to enforce the 1864 ban.
While Harris will travel later in the week, the Biden campaign and state parties have held press conferences around the country “highlighting Donald Trump’s dangerous record on abortion,” particularly in battleground states like Arizona, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina and New Hampshire.
The campaign plans to send Amanda Zurawski and Kaitlyn Joshua, two women directly affected by abortion bans, to North Carolina on Wednesday and Wisconsin next week.
Biden team ad featuring Zurawski “Trump Did It,” is part of a $30 million ad campaign that, according to the campaign, generated 35% more engagement on X than Trump’s original video on Truth Social.
The ad has more than 58,000 combined likes and reposts, compared to 43,000 combined likes and reposts for Trump’s 4-minute message.
In all, the Biden campaign posted information about reproductive rights nearly 70 times in the 24 hours after Trump’s video was posted, garnering more than 10.4 million views, a campaign official said.
A clip of him bragging about his direct involvement in ending Roe over Supreme Court justices appointed by Trump has garnered more than 3.7 million views on X alone.
“Trump is responsible for overturning Roe, Arizona’s overreaching ban, and the brutal abortion bans that undermine women’s liberties across the country — and he’s proud of it,” Chitika said. “We’ll be working around the clock through November to make sure voters know that, too.”