Former Vice President Joe Biden released a new ad Tuesday that features numerous clips of Donald Trump referencing the Democratic candidate by name, highlighting the Biden campaign’s core message that he is best positioned to defeat Trump.
And it’s quite a doozy.
The 30-second ad, released just hours ahead of Tuesday night’s Democratic primary debate in Iowa, features a montage of Trump saying Biden’s name, followed by a narrator saying, “Donald Trump has made it clear he’s got Joe Biden on his mind because Trump knows Biden will beat him in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin — the states we need to take back the presidency.”
The ad also gets at Biden’s core message in his campaign — that he is the Democrat best positioned to beat Trump in November. Electability and winning in the general election have been a central component of Biden’s campaign during the primary.
“Number one, whoever we pick has to have really good chance of being able to beat Donald Trump, and you guys have to decide who is best equipped and most likely to beat him,” Biden told voters in Anamosa, Iowa, in early January. “Not just based on what the polling says today, who is candidate who can stand up and is the antithesis of who Donald Trump is. I think I am, but that’s for you to decide.”
The ad is part of the $4 million investment the campaign has made in the first-in-the-nation caucus state between November and caucus day. The ad will air on TV for one day and will continue to air on Hulu and YouTube thereafter, accompanied by a video testimonial from an Iowa resident.
WATCH:
Why are you so obsessed with me, Mr. President? pic.twitter.com/BbAawEvQo6 [1]
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) January 14, 2020 [2]