President Joe Biden speaks to a conference hosted by Everytown for Gun Safety in Washington on June 11, 2024. (Screenshot from CSPAN livestream.)
Ahead of Thursday’s first presidential debate, President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is launching a new ad that will air only in Pennsylvania and Georgia aimed at drawing contrast between him and former President Donald Trump on economic issues.
Titled “No Plan,” the spot is part of Biden-Harris’s $50 million June ad campaign. It claims Trump is “focused on revenge, and he has no plan to help the middle class. He’d just give more tax cuts to the wealthy.”
The Biden campaign is launching a new ad in Pennsylvania and Georgia focused on the economy (screen capture)
The economy has proven to be a thorny issue for Biden; even though the inflation rate has receded from its high of 9% in 2022 in to 3.4% last month, prices on many consumer goods have stayed high. That’s kept Americans in a gloomy mood about the economy, despite the relatively low unemployment rate and steady jobs growth.
“The American people deserve better than a white-collar crook who’s only in it for himself,” Biden campaign communications director
Michael Tyler said in a statement. “That’s why they fired Donald Trump in 2020, and it’s why Joe Biden will beat him again in November.”
The Biden campaign has touched on economic issues in Pennsylvania-based ads previously; in April, it launched an ad featuring JoJo Burgess, a steelworker, a veteran, and mayor of Washington, Pa. to tout the Biden administration’s focus on union workers.
To keep focus on economic issues in Pennsylvania, the Biden campaign is holding events this week in Altoona, Erie and Pittsburgh, with the latter featuring Mayor Ed Gainey and Allegheny County workers.
The New York Times’ latest polling average finds Trump and Biden tied nationally at 46% in a head-to-head match-up. In Pennsylvania, Trump maintains a slight lead of 48% to 46%.
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