Pro-Biden super PAC set to spend up to $40M amplifying Trump's legal woes
A super PAC backing President Joe Biden plans to spend upwards of $40 million starting in late spring focusing on Donald Trump’s mounting legal issues.
A super PAC backing President Joe Biden plans to spend upwards of $40 million starting in late spring focusing on Donald Trump’s mounting legal issues and his "threat to democracy," an issue that Biden's campaign itself has so far avoided directly attacking.
The idea is to try and amplify ads the group, called Unite the Country, feels are most likely to influence swing state voters who are moderate or conservative-leaning, and either anti-Trump or on the fence about the former president because of his four indictments — including two related to allegations he tried to overturn the 2020 election.
Those indictments proved to be political rocket fuel for Trump in the Republican primary. GOP voters saw him as the target of a weaponized justice system trying to end his political career. Trump dominated the first two nominating contests, getting over 50% of the vote in both Iowa and New Hampshire, and most public polling showed his support with Republicans intensified as his legal problems grew.
In June, an NBC New poll found Trump's lead grew to nearly 30 points over former Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who at the time was in second place. And over the summer, his standing with Republican voters only grew stronger as the indictments piled up.
But the pro-Biden group is betting that moving into the general election, that calculation will change and the legal troubles will be a drag on Trump's chances.
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