'Imbalance of coverage': Biden campaign aims to amplify Trump’s 'slurring' and 'erratic behavior'
President Joe Biden's presidential campaign is arguing that political reporters should focus more on former President Donald Trump's "erratic" behavior on the campaign trail to give voters a full picture of his mental fortitude.
The Messenger reported that the rapid response X (formerly Twitter) account @BidenHQ has lately been posting videos of Trump making verbal gaffes during stump speeches as part of an effort to suggest that the 45th president of the United States is losing his mental faculties. The latest examples include Trump mistakenly referring to Biden as "President Obama," accusing Biden of "using the fear tacksicks[sic] of a police state" and a video montage of various slip-ups during public events, like calling Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán "the leader of Turkey" and mistakenly referring to Sioux City, Iowa as "Sioux Falls," which is in South Dakota.
"Is Donald Trump okay?" @BidenHQ tweeted.
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“What the Biden campaign is amplifying is simply examples of Donald Trump's erratic and dangerous behavior,” a Biden campaign spokesperson told The Messenger. "What we've seen pretty consistently is an imbalance of coverage when it comes to these things."
"What we’re doing is filling the void for a press corps that doesn’t seem interested in covering both Donald Trump and Joe Biden the same," the spokesperson added.
To bolster its argument, Biden's campaign is pointing to the latest New York Times/Siena college poll in which 71% of voters in various swing states felt that the 80-year-old Biden was too old to be president, yet only 39% said the same of the 77-year-old Trump. Additionally, 54% of respondents said that Trump had the necessary "mental sharpness" to perform presidential duties, with just 35% of those polled saying the same of Biden.
President Biden's campaign isn't the only one ridiculing Trump's gaffes. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' own rapid response X account, @DeSantisWarRoom, launched its own project dubbed the "Trump accident tracker," posting its own videos of Trump making verbal errors on the campaign trail.
"Every time Trump veers off the teleprompter, what happens?" DeSantis' campaign posted on X. "He becomes a major liability for his campaign."
