“Sleepy Joe” Biden extends his claws – and not everyone likes it
The swatter in the Iowa primaries hit the former US vice president hard. Instead of the expected victory, Biden only got the fourth most votes.
This may have caused some pain to the 77-year-old Strahlemann. Because instead of him, the supposed outsider Pete Buttigieg beamed into the cameras as the winner. “Mayor Pete,” as he is called, is not even half the age of Biden and is the only experience that has the Mayor’s Office of a town in Indiana.
Then Biden’s campaign team probably thought: “Not with us, little one!” Without further ado, they produced an election campaign ad that compares the performance records of the two. And of course praises Biden’s achievements in all tones.
In the clip, the 77-year-old Biden highlights his political successes as vice-president of the then President Barack Obamas and portrayed the 38-year-old Buttigieg as an inexperienced local politician.
While Biden helped boost the economy and solve international crises, Buttigieg, as mayor of South Bend, took care of “decorative lanterns” and “the revitalization of sidewalks”, the clip says. Biden’s successes are accompanied in the video with dramatic music, Buttigieg’s with childish music.
So far, Biden and other Democratic presidential applicants had been reluctant to bite negative advertising about each other.
Buttigieg’s spokesman Chris Meagher said on Twitter that it was his success in reviving a tumbling city and his experience as a former soldier that made him a good president.
Biden’s new video only underlines how badly his campaign is doing, he continued.
Second swatter in New Hampshire?
Buttigieg is also given good chances in New Hampshire, where voting will take place on Tuesday. Biden had already criticized the former mayor’s lack of experience during a TV debate on Saturday night.
Buttigieg, on the other hand, praised Biden for his fight against the charges against his son Hunter Biden.
“Damn it, Joe!”
The reactions to Biden’s somewhat unexpected attack on Buttigieg follow at the same time.
(Aeg)
