President Joe Biden purposely avoided using former President Donald Trump‘s name for three years, but the Republican’s surge in the polls and dominance in the primaries has caused Biden to change his tune.

After years of referring to Trump as “the other guy” or “my predecessor,” Biden is making a point to say Trump’s name directly — a sign that his campaign is preparing for a general election framed as a choice between protecting and abandoning democracy, rather than a review of Biden’s first term.