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Biden fundraises off Trump’s Iowa win: ‘He’s the clear front runner’

President Biden on Monday night issued a plea for supporters to donate to his campaign in the wake of former President Trump’s victory in Iowa.

“Looks like Donald Trump just won Iowa. He’s the clear front runner on the other side at this point,” Biden wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

“But here’s the thing: this election was always going to be you and me vs. extreme MAGA Republicans. It was true yesterday and it’ll be true tomorrow,” Biden added, posting a link to a fundraising page.

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"Don't vote for a rapist" is a fine platform to run on at this point, where conservatives are ready to vote for a rapist.
Biden is getting way too much shit for explicitly saying that voting for him is better than voting for a rapist.
This is not his fault, go call your grandma names for voting into the two party system, this dichotomy had been perpetuated for decades.
Biden is the better presidential candidate, and by far the better president, running as a contrast to a rapist traitor is an understandable salient facet of his platform.
It isn't all of it, but if a large minority is ready to vote for a rapist, saying "I don't support rape, if you don't support rape vote Dem" is a good starting campaign point to let the majority know where you stand.
You aren't voting for two rapists.
You're voting for trump, a rapist, or Biden, a center politician who has made several responsible ethical and moral policy decisions in his first term that have benefited the majority of the country.
- "Insurrectionist" is too long a word for most Americans.
  I think "don't vote for a rapist" works quite nicely.
  
  That's so funny, I'm literally looking up other words for insurrectionist right now because I completely agree, haha.
  Maybe traitor, but that's a little nationalist for me and the piece of crap doesn't believe in anything anyway.
- They voted for a rapist last time, and the time before, why would that stop them now? These allegations aren't new, and we've known since epstein was caught that Trump frequented the lolita express, and trump himself said epstein was a 'good friend'.
  Why would that change any of these peoples minds now? They've had ample time to educate themselves, if ever they wanted to, and I doubt they're voting based on trump anyway as much as 'muh elephant better than ur donkey'.
  
  You're not trying to change everyone's minds, you're trying to repeat what happened four years ago, when he lost, even before he was found liable for rape and insurrection in courts.
  They didn't vote for a rapist, they voted for a bully.
  He was, in 2020, in a better position than he is in now, and now if you debate anyone, you can mention that Trump is a rapist, committed direct election fraud and insurrection.
  Which makes him a poor candidate.
- if it wasn't for the whole, bypassing congress to sell weapons to a country actively engaged in genocide... i'd say biden is the clear winner...
  ...
  but now they're going to beat that horse to death, and i can't personally justify it...
  except that trump would've done worse...
  
  The fact that Trump would have done worse is a pretty good counterpoint.
  You have one candidate who says hey Israel you should start pulling back.
  And then you have another candidate who admires dictators and their totalitarian policies, who's a rapist.
No amount of money is going to convince hardcore maga to vote for anyone else.
- There are, crazy to believe, tens of millions of undecided voters every election cycle. The media calls them "moderates" but really it's clueless people that don't understand politics that vote based off gut feeling or "I'd like to have a beer with that guy!". Getting through to these chucklefucks is critical to winning elections, especially when you're campaigning in a swing state like Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, New Hampshire, etc.
- Won't the money be spent trying to scare anyone who's anti trump into not staying at home come voting day?
  
  Yes. Politics nowadays is less about winning the argument and more about actually getting your supporters to show up.
I just checked out the comments on that twitter post. Yikes, that's quite the shit show :D
Fingers crossed for your election, guys!
- Weird how Elon kept whining about bots being rampant until it came out that half of his followers were bots and Twitter started bleeding users and advertisers.
I love the title cutting off a very important part of the quote. You guys are just helping spread fear.
- Which part?
  
  “Looks like Donald Trump just won Iowa. He’s the clear front runner on the other side at this point,” that's the full quote. The quote fragment in the title makes it seems like Biden is admitting that Trump is ahead of him. Welcome to modern "journalism" and MicroWave is just a post farm so it doesn't care what "information" it spreads.
a younger candidate puppet would have drawn in the millenials/genz vote this time around but boomers gonna boom..
This is the best summary I could come up with:
President Biden on Monday night issued a plea for supporters to donate to his campaign in the wake of former President Trump’s victory in Iowa.
He’s the clear front runner on the other side at this point,” Biden wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
News outlets called Iowa for Trump roughly 30 minutes after the caucuses officially got underway.
Polling in other early primary states, such as New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, also show Trump leading.
Biden used his first campaign speeches of 2024 to warn that Trump poses a grave threat to U.S. democracy, citing his refusal to accept the 2020 election results, his refusal to condemn political violence and his vows for revenge if reelected.
Trump, speaking to supporters Monday in Des Moines on Monday night, slammed Biden as “the worst president we’ve had in the history of our country.”
The original article contains 217 words, the summary contains 144 words. Saved 34%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
Biden’s campaign slogan, forever and always: “Yeah, I might stab you in the stomach with a pitchfork, but at least I’m not Trump!”
- But that's better than getting shot in the face.
  
  Yeah, a hundred percent. I’m mocking the fact that Biden’s got nothing going for him aside from not being Trump. Which is definitely something, don’t get me wrong. But it fucking sucks
"My name is not Trump. Please donate money to me." - Biden
biden thinks it is him and the citizens he kept down struggling versus trump who did the same
fucking laughable this guy thinks he can do a piss poor quartered assed at best job and thinks we should just blindly follow
- More like "okay guys, it's clear that Trump is going to be the GOP candidate. We need to beat him".
  I need you to do more learning on how FPTP and electoral college voting affects general elections.
I wonder how many rail workers will donate to his campaign
- They'd be justified in being angry, but they'd also be shafted just as quickly if not quicker under Trump if there was another labor dispute.
  
  Its a good point but a bad campaign slogan, s'why i brought it up. The guys i know say their local is still for joe but some of em are gonna vote Trump even though back in 16 the carrier left the bargaining table simply because Trump won
- Plenty. Maybe do your own research.
  
  Calm down buddy, we've only just met. Hiya, i used to work for BNSF and i know some real rail workers personally. While i don't expect you to take me at my word i do expect you to be respectful when you speak. If you don't then we can flail our dicks at each other like this. Do you want to do the first thing where we learn from each other or the second thing, where we each try to roll the other person's ego in gravel?
We need a serious 3rd party candidate to step forward. I'm tired of have to choose the least bad candidate.
- We can't have a third party that is viable while we have first past the post voting. We need election reform to include new voting procedures like ranked choice voting or something similar along with the elimination of gerrymandering.
- This is America. A 3rd candidate would just be the lesser of 3 evils.
You know... if he really cared about beating trump in november, he should step down and then campaign for his successor.
- He's said the only reason he's running is trump...
  But also he said "50 other Dems" could beat trump.
  So it seems like less that he's running to stop trump from winning, and more knowing trump is his easiest opponent.
  If all he cares about was stopping trump, yeah, he wouldn't have ran in the 2020. Let alone 2024 when he's polling even worse.
  Like Clinton before him, he's willing to risk trump because he thinks trump is one of the few candidates that would make someone vote D to prevent.
  
  I hear that.
  And what's hilarious is... most democrats are eating that shit up.
- And, who, pray tell, is this mythical successor that would do better?
  Give me a name, please. It's so easy to say "young Democrat that everyone likes" should run instead of Biden. But what actual person is that?
  
  I see your name far too often zaph, and the reason it's too often rather than nice to see is you lower the discouse of every thread you touch.
- No. Bringing in fresh blood now would only confuse people and ruin his political brand. Biden is the only person who can beat Trump at this point. Not voting, or voting for Trump because you think Biden is too old for the job is asinine. Trump is literally 3 years younger than Biden.

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