President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign launched its own account on former President Donald Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, on Monday, Fox News first reported.
“So. Let’s see how that works. Converts welcome!” the campaign wrote Monday in its first post on the platform under the username @BidenHQ.
“So. Let’s see how that works. Converts welcome!”
Speaking to Fox, the campaign said it is joining the site to reach conservative voters and correct any “misinformation and disinformation” related to the president on the platform. So far, the campaign has released several clips in which Republican primary candidates like Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley attack Trump on issues such as the federal debt and his comments about the war in Israel.
Trump decided to start his own social media network after being banned from Facebook and Twitter following the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. For more than a year, Trump posted exclusively on Truth Social to his more than 6 million followers, even after Meta and X, formerly Twitter, reinstated his accounts last winter.
That changed in August after the former president was indicted in an Atlanta prison on charges related to overturning his 2020 election loss in Georgia. His mugshot was taken and he posted the picture on X shortly after.
“The corrupt Joe Biden and his team are finally acknowledging that Truth Social is hot as a gun and the only place where real news happens,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung told Fox on Monday. “Unfortunately for Biden, his continued spread of misinformation to pressure and distract the American people from his disastrous record will not work and they will be forgotten.”
Trump reportedly signed an agreement allowing him to post only on Truth Social for an 18-month period that ended in June. Truth Social’s financial future is unclear. This month, Digital World Acquisition Corp., the SPAC (special purpose acquisition company) that would take the platform’s parent company, Trump Media & Technology Group, public, announced that it would return $533 million to investors.
For many years, Democrats steered clear of trolling their Republican opponents online, opting for the Obama-era strategy of “When they go low, we go high.” But during the 2020 election, Democrats like Sen. John Fetterman began doing so (D-PA) to use their online followers to post memes and make fun of their opponents.
The Biden campaign’s decision to join Truth Social is an extension of that strategy. During the first GOP primary debate in August, the Biden campaign ran an ad campaign that featured the “Dark Brandon” meme on the Fox News website.
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2023-10-17 02:07:44
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