President Joe Biden is returning to Democratic basics, underscoring his record on healthcare as former President Donald Trump criticizes Biden over his border policies.
Biden is scheduled to deliver an address on healthcare in the White House Indian Treaty Room on Wednesday. Biden’s speech comes one day after Trump traveled to Wisconsin and Michigan to denounce the “border bloodbath” under Biden’s administration.
The political split screen emphasizes how Biden is trying to play to his strengths so his campaign is better positioned to respond to the criticism before an expected surge in immigrants this spring.
A political conversation about immigration does not help Democrats, but a conversation about healthcare “works much better” before November, particularly now that Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act, is popular, according to Claremont McKenna College politics professor and former Republican aide John Pitney.
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