Priorities USA, the main Democratic super PAC focused on the presidential race, says it will back Joe Biden with ads rebutting GOP attacks
Democrats' flagship 2020 super PAC plans to launch ads aiding Joe Biden in the presidential race, arguing that as the party’s likely nominee for president, Biden needs to be defended from attacks being waged by President Donald Trump and his allies.
"Donald Trump and his Republican allies in Congress have made it clear that they view Joe Biden as the likely Democratic nominee, and are beginning to attack him in an effort to define the race before our primary is officially over and the nominee can defend himself. We will not allow that to go unanswered," Guy Cecil, chairman of the outside group Priorities USA, said in a statement provided to POLITICO.
Republicans have started building lines of attack on Biden in the days following his string of victories in South Carolina and Super Tuesday states. Trump and allies on Capitol Hill have re-upped their focus on the Biden family's business dealings, a likely line of attack against Biden in a general election campaign. And Trump has repeatedly questioned Biden's mental fitness.
"He doesn’t even know where he is or what he’s doing or what office he’s running for. Honestly, I don’t think he knows what office he’s running for,"
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