UPDATE: According to WMUR, the New Hampshire for Biden campaign has now canceled the anti-Trump presser scheduled for tomorrow morning.
Less than 48 hours after an assassination attempt nearly took former President Donald Trump’s life, local Democratic leaders are scheduled to “slam Trump’s plan to serve as a dictator.”
That’s according to a press release the Biden campaign sent on Friday.
“Ahead of RNC, New Hampshire Democrats to Slam Trump’s Project 2025 Agenda, Plans to Ban Abortion Nationwide and Serve as a Dictator,” the press release reads. “On Monday, July 15, New Hampshire Democrats will hold a press conference on the first day of the Republican National Convention to highlight the threat Trump’s Project 2025 agenda poses to Granite Staters.”
Scheduled speakers include New Hampshire Democratic Party chair Ray Buckley, who has publicly called Trump “unhinged,” “mentally ill” and, in one explicit social media post, said Trump is a “cult leader” and “a pedophile, money laundering, sell out who sh*ts his pants.”
Also scheduled to speak is Republican-turned-Democrat Bill Marsh, who’s running for state Senate in Wolfeboro; and state Rep. Alexis Simpson (D-Exeter).
Multiple requests for comment to the Biden campaign and Buckley went unanswered on Sunday.
If the press conference goes as planned, it will represent a break with the strategy of the national Biden campaign. In the wake of the assassination attempt, it has pulled down its television ads and paused all “outbound communications,” according to reports.
And a planned trip to Florida by Vice President Kalama Harris has been postponed because of the shooting, campaign sources said.
New Hampshire Democrats have made no secret of their plan to make Trump the centerpiece of their November campaign. In particular, candidates like U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas and the Democrats running to replace U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster have repeatedly claimed Trump is “a danger to democracy.”
That’s a very different stance than Democrat U.S. Rep. Jared Golden in a competitive seat next door in Maine.
“Biden’s poor performance in the debate was not a surprise,” Golden wrote in a recent Bangor Daily News op-ed. “It also didn’t rattle me as it has others, because the outcome of this election has been clear to me for months: While I don’t plan to vote for him, Donald Trump is going to win. And I’m OK with that.”
Granite State Democrats are not. And they are scheduled to say so Monday, even after the assassination attempt.
State GOP chair Chris Ager, who is in Milwaukee preparing for the Republican National Convention, told NHJournal Sunday he was outraged over the Democrats’ planned attack presser.
“These Democrats have no shame,” Ager said. “They are so full of Mr. Malarkey that it’s gotten to their heads and they don’t know how to act any differently.
“I’m just beside myself as to why. Why can’t they say, ‘Here’s what we’re going to do for America?’ Well, I know why: because we’ve seen what they’ve done, and it’s disastrous. So they have nothing else to do but lie about us.”
In a brief speech to the nation Sunday afternoon, President Joe Biden told Americans, “Unity is the most elusive goal of all, but nothing is more important than that right now, unity. We’ll debate and we’ll disagree — that’s not going to change. But we’re going to not lose sight of the fact who we are as Americans.”
