Biden campaign eager to seize more opportunities to make their case once Trump’s New York trial ends

Biden campaign officials have no idea what next week will bring in Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York – including whether the former president will be convicted, found not guilty or if the whole saga ultimately ends in a mistrial.

Biden campaign officials have no idea what next week will bring in Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York – including whether the former president will be convicted or found not guilty or whether the whole saga will ultimately end in a mistrial. But regardless of precisely how the weeks-long historic trial ends, President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is preparing to enter its next, more aggressive phase. On everything from the ads the campaign runs to the messaging and rhetoric that comes from the president himself to growing the campaign’s infrastructure, a person familiar with the campaign’s thinking said, the Biden team recognizes that once the Trump trial – and the aggressive media coverage of it – is over, there will be more room and opportunities to make their case to the American people ahead of November. Biden campaign officials are still grappling with the reality, this person said, that a substantial part of the population still doesn’t see that the choice on Election Day will be between Biden and Trump. And while the campaign will need to calibrate its messaging and strategy based on how exactly Trump’s trial ends, this person insisted that at the end of the day, the thrust of their case against the former president won’t change – whether Trump emerges a convicted felon or not. As CNN reported on Friday, the Biden campaign on Friday effectively launched the start of that next phase by releasing a scorching new ad called “Snapped,” narrated by actor Robert De Niro.