The Biden campaign has released a new video ad going after expected general election opponent Donald Trump for a series of what could be termed gaffes in public comments. The video uses Trump’s recent remarks in which, while trying to discuss former Speaker of the House and California Democratic Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, Trump instead referred repeatedly to Nikki Haley — a former governor of South Carolina and a current presidential primary opponent of his.
The ad relies nearly completely on Trump’s own words and context given by remarks from Haley, who lambasted Trump in her own public commentary for getting “confused.”
Trump has responded publicly to the obvious hubbub about him getting just basic facts wrong by claiming he was just being sarcastic. While you could perhaps follow the argument that saying he ran against Obama instead of Biden was some kind of ham-handed attempt to credit the former president, meaning Barack Obama, with moves undertaken by the Biden campaign… where’s the correlation between Haley and Pelosi?
The more Trump flubs the facts, the more his own defenses seem to fall apart. Trump’s complaints about who in reality was Pelosi were about her supposed failures in curtailing what became the violence of January 6, 2021. Haley had nothing to do with any of that. “I don’t agree with Nikki Haley on everything, but we agree on this much: She is not Nancy Pelosi,” a caption for the ad said on Biden’s personal account on X, the site formerly called Twitter.
Somehow, the narrative has been cultivated around Biden himself that he’s the one in cognitive decline or just unfit for the stresses of the job considering his age and related factors, but it’s Trump who also keeps claiming he himself won the 2020 presidential election despite the overwhelming cascade of evidence indicating otherwise! In the meantime, Trump remains on track to win the 2024 presidential nomination from the GOP, with even one of his own primary challengers (Ron DeSantis) recently predicting another Trump win in the next state-level nominating contest.
I don’t agree with Nikki Haley on everything, but we agree on this much: She is not Nancy Pelosi. pic.twitter.com/hjNgmcrwAP
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) January 21, 2024
