Donald Trump's presidential campaign and its allies see President Biden's highly anticipated and scrutinized press conference as a win-win for the former president.
“It appears Biden did enough to convince his supporters that he should remain on the ticket, but he also reinforced what the American people know. Their lives are affected by his weakness and failure on a daily basis,” a Trump campaign official, who requested anonymity to speak more freely, told Fox News Digital after Thursday night's press conference.
As the president continues to resist a growing chorus of calls from within the Democratic Party for him to step aside and end his 2024 reelection campaign following last month’s disastrous debate with Trump, the news conference appeared to do little further damage. But it is also doubtful it will slow the growing movement to urge Biden to drop out of the race.
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President Biden at a press conference during the NATO Summit in Washington, DC, Thursday, July 11, 2024. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Trump's campaign is hoping Biden will stay in the race. The Trump campaign appears to believe he is the weakest candidate the former president will face. The Trump campaign continues to argue that Biden, 81, is not physically or mentally up to the task of serving as president.
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After Biden mistakenly referred to Vice President Kamala Harris as “Vice President Trump,” Trump's social media account quickly shared a clip of the moment, with the former president writing, “Great job, Joe!”
Trump also posted on social media about some of the president's other gaffes and blunders at the important press conference.
Donald Trump Jr., a leading representative of the father, said on his Rumble livestream that Biden did “well enough to be able to stay,” but then shared a social media post that merged the faces of Trump and Harris and said “Vice President Trump.”
Veteran Republican consultant Dave Carney told Fox News the press conference “couldn't have gone better.”
“He didn't drool, he didn't fall, he didn't freeze,” said Carney, who runs a major pro-Trump super PAC.
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But Carney argued that nothing Biden said at the news conference was “reassuring” to voters or U.S. allies.
He said that as far as Biden's candidacy is concerned, things remain “unstable” and for Republicans, “unstable is good.”
Former President Trump speaks during a campaign event at Historic Greenbrier Farms in Chesapeake, Virginia, on June 28, 2024. (Parker Michels-Boyce/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Veteran Republican strategist Mike Biundo told Fox News that the president “did enough to not be thrown out of the race, but not enough to look like a competent candidate.”
“From the Republican side and from the Trump side, I think it's 100 percent win-win for us,” added Biundo, who served as a senior adviser on Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
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Since the June 27 debate in Atlanta, the Trump campaign and political action committees supporting the former president have refrained from using clips of the president’s missteps in their ads. They have mostly kept a low profile, allowing media attention to focus on Biden and the chaos his candidacy wrought on the Democratic Party.
Asked whether the Trump campaign or allied groups should use clips of the press conference gaffes in their ads, Biundo said: “I've always been a firm believer that when someone is harming themselves, you allow them to do it and you step aside.”
“But some of those clips contain too much gold to not use.”
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