The President of the United States, Joe Biden is taking on likely 2024 election rival Donald Trump in his own territory at least virtually. This was as the campaign team for the 80-year-old Democrat on Tuesday morning made its first post on Truth Social, the conservative social network set up by Republican frontrunner and former president Trump.
‘Well. Let’s see how this goes. Converts welcome!’ the verified @BidenHQ account said, using as its avatar the ‘Dark Brandon’ meme featuring the president as an animated super hero with red laser eyes.
The Biden reelection campaign then went up almost immediately up with a series of posts showing criticisms of Trump by his trailing Republican rivals Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley.
‘We just joined Truth Social, mostly because we thought it would be very funny,’ Biden’s campaign said in a separate message on X, formerly known as Twitter.
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Biden’s campaign team separately confirmed that the account was genuine.
Africa Today News, New York recalls that Trump had in 2021 set up Truth Social after being permanently suspended from the then-Twitter for glorifying violence after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol by his supporters.
The Capitol assault came after Trump falsely claimed that he, and not Biden, won the 2020 election.
The pair look increasingly set for a rematch in November 2024.
Tech tycoon Elon Musk reinstated Trump to Twitter in late 2022 but the ex-president has mainly stayed away, apart from briefly returning to post his police mugshot following his arrest in an election interference case in Georgia.
Meanwhile, it is believed that voters who consume conservative media have long been considered a rich target for Democratic candidates. During the 2020 campaign, Democrats were split on engaging with Fox News, which party officials at the time said had more persuadable voters among its viewers than any other cable network had.
Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts called Fox News a “hate for profit” operation and refused its invitations for a town hall, while Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, an independent, and Pete Buttigieg, then a former mayor of South Bend, Ind., accepted. Mr. Buttigieg, now Mr. Biden’s transportation secretary, is often dispatched to explain the administration’s positions on Fox News.