Problems pile up for Trump as Biden team preps 'avalanche' of attacks: report
Former President Donald Trump started the year with a modest lead in polling against President Joe Biden — but there are already cracks starting to emerge in his bid to retake the White House.
And the Biden campaign is planning to unleash a blitz of attacks capitalizing on these vulnerabilities.
According to Politico, Trump is already beginning to take messaging hits as he assumes the role of presumptive nominee.
"On a call with staff on Friday, a senior Trump campaign adviser lamented some of the recent news coverage, saying it had been a bad press week for the campaign, according to two people with knowledge of the call and granted anonymity to describe a private conversation," Politico reports.
In particular, Trump's campaign was frustrated with coverage about the newly appointed Trump loyalists at the Republican National Committee shutting down minority outreach centers — a decision they swiftly reversed — and pushing to restrict mail-in voting.
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Moreover, Trump has had to endure national outrage over his off-the-cuff remarks, reported Adam Wren and Natalie Allison.
"After making marginal gains with Latino voters, Trump on Saturday said some migrants were 'not people,'" they write. "His campaign scrambled over the weekend to push back on coverage of his remarks predicting a 'bloodbath' if he loses in November, explaining that he was only talking about the auto industry. And then Trump ignited another controversy, saying Jews who vote for Democrats 'hate everything about Israel' and their religion."
All of this comes at a time when Trump and the GOP are being massively outraised by their Democratic counterparts — something President Joe Biden plans to take advantage of.
"Parrying attacks from Democrats is something any Republican would have to do," said the report. "But Trump is about to face an avalanche of spending from Biden and his well-financed allies. Biden’s campaign said this week that it has a staggering $155 million on hand between the campaign, the Democratic National Committee and related joint fundraising committees, and as of the end of January, Biden and the DNC held a $41 million cash advantage over Trump."