The 2024 election is nearly one year out and has seen over a dozen candidates enter the race to win the nomination of their political parties. Despite the numerous candidates running, voters may ultimately get a rematch of the 2020 election, which saw Joe Biden defeat Donald Trump.
A potential rematch could be highly anticipated and also see some familiar name-calling.
What Happened: Former President Donald Trump remained the current leader in election polls of Republican voters to win his party’s nomination.
While he continued to campaign to win the GOP nomination in the 2024 Republican primary votes, the former president was wasting no time ramping up attacks on the current president and potential Democratic opponent Biden.
In the 2020 election, Trump made strong use of the nickname “Sleepy Joe” in reference to Biden.
As reported earlier this year, Trump appeared ready to move on and refer to Biden as “Crooked Joe.” According to a new NBC News report, Trump seemed to be going all-in on using the “Crooked Joe” nickname, as he worked to convince Americans the president had been far from honest.
As Trump faces multiple lawsuits and indictments, the former president was making it known that he believed Biden has interfered with the investigations.
“These indictments and lawsuits are all part of my political opponents campaign plan,” Trump said in a social media post. “Crooked Joe pushed this litigation hard to get it done. This is a new low in Presidential Politics.”
While he is moving away from the “Sleepy Joe” nickname, Trump is still making sure to get shots in about Biden’s health.
“I think he’s worse mentally than he is physically. And physically, he’s not exactly a triathlete or any kind of an athlete,” Trump said of Biden in a recent interview.
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Why It’s Important: Trump has been indicted four times in 2023 and faces over 90 charges with multiple court dates coming in 2023 and 2024.
The four indictments target charges against Trump related to the 2020 election in Georgia, the national 2020 presidential election, federal classified documents and hush money paid to adult actress Stormy Daniels.
NBC News highlighted in their report there was no evidence Biden influenced the indictments against Trump, with several of the cases involving prosecutors that don’t answer to Washington D.C.
“Donald Trump is running on the same, unpopular agenda that lost him the election in 2020. No name-calling that he shouts into his MAGA echo chamber changes that fact,” Biden campaign spokesperson Kevin Munoz said.
Election polls have shown many Americans don’t support the notion that the indictments against Trump were politically motivated.
There could be a level of irony in Trump calling Biden “crooked” given the number of charges he faces and the fact that he was the first president to face federal charges.
During his presidency, Trump was also impeached twice, becoming only the third president to face potential removal and the first to ever be impeached twice. Impeachments against Trump came with charges related to abuse of power and obstruction of Congress and incitement of insurrection.
The switch from “Sleepy Joe” to “Crooked Joe” could also lead to a divide among Republican candidates on what their key offense is against the president. At the first Republican primary debate, several candidates took on Biden’s role in the indictments, while others said that Biden was too old and weak to serve another term as president.
Trump faces multiple charges and court dates that could see the possibility of jail time, which could be another item voters will likely weigh into their 2024 decision.
If he is to spend time behind bars, Trump would still be able to run for president. As previously reported by Benzinga, Trump will also keep control of his media company known as Trump Media & Technology Group even if behind bars.
Trump Media & Technology Group is in the process of merging with SPAC Digital World Acquisition Corporation DWAC to become a publicly traded company.
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