President Biden on Monday night issued a plea for supporters to donate to his campaign in the wake of former President Trump’s victory in Iowa. “Looks like Donald Trump just won Iowa. He’s the clea…

President Biden on Monday night issued a plea for supporters to donate to his campaign in the wake of former President Trump’s victory in Iowa.

“Looks like Donald Trump just won Iowa. He’s the clear front runner on the other side at this point,” Biden wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

“But here’s the thing: this election was always going to be you and me vs. extreme MAGA Republicans. It was true yesterday and it’ll be true tomorrow,” Biden added, posting a link to a fundraising page.

  • the_q@lemmy.world
    106·
    10 months ago

    I love the title cutting off a very important part of the quote. You guys are just helping spread fear.

      • the_q@lemmy.world
        83·
        10 months ago

        “Looks like Donald Trump just won Iowa. He’s the clear front runner on the other side at this point,” that’s the full quote. The quote fragment in the title makes it seems like Biden is admitting that Trump is ahead of him. Welcome to modern “journalism” and MicroWave is just a post farm so it doesn’t care what “information” it spreads.

        • stochasticity@lemmy.world
          2·
          10 months ago

          I’m pretty sure in this context frontrunner refers to the choices within the Republican primary, not the general. As in Trump is beating desantis and co.