Sources close to President Biden’s reelection campaign tell Axios that the incumbent’s plan is to not just run against his once-vanquished rival, fat former President Trump, but the MAGA movement as a whole for all the white nationalist revanchism and malevolence it represents.
“With every passing day of the GOP primary, the 2024 Republican field lurches further right just to cater to the MAGA base,” DNC spokesperson Ammar Moussa said. “Whoever comes out of this Dumpster fire of a primary to become the GOP nominee will only have done so by being the most MAGA – and alienating millions of voters.” It’s not a bad plan, if a little obvious, given how effective the line of messaging was in draining momentum from the “Red Wave” that wasn’t in 2022.