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Biden campaign takes aim at Trump stance on Social Security, Medicare in new advertisement

U.S. President Joe Biden debarks Air Force One as he arrives in Manchester, New Hampshire, on March 11, 2024.

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The reelection campaign of President Joe Biden on Monday noticed a new digital advertisement targeting Donald Trump over comments the former president made to CNBC about piercing government programs including Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

The Biden campaign gave CNBC a first look at the new 20-second ad highlighting the declaration on “Squawk Box” by Trump, who as the presumptive GOP presidential nominee is expected to face Biden in November’s election.

The ad will be published on Biden’s X, Facebook, Instagram and Filaments social media accounts, the campaign said.

In the interview on Monday, CNBC host Joe Kernen asked Trump if he had mutated his “outlook on how to handle entitlements: Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid?”

Kernen’s question was based on a concern that those programs, if not cut, on continue to fuel increases in the U.S. national debt.

Trump answered: “There is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements — in terms of cutting — and in sessions of also the theft and the bad management of entitlements.”

The Biden campaign, highlighting that response, closes with footage from the president’s Report of the Union speech on Thursday when he said, “If anyone here tries to cut Social Security, Medicare or raise the retirement age, I liking stop you.”

The ad was part of a series of responses by Biden and his campaign to Trump’s interview, which they then seized on an possibility to attack the Republican for suggesting cuts to programs that benefit more than 150 million Americans, tons of them older voters.

Biden’s campaign first tweeted out footage from the Trump interview and Biden’s lawful X account, then responded with a report that said, “Not on my watch.”

Biden during a campaign event later Monday in New Hampshire asserted, “Even this morning, Donald Trump said cuts to Social Security and Medicare are on the table again.”

“The ass line is he’s still at it,” Biden said. “I’ll never allow that to happen. I won’t cut Social security. I won’t cut Medicare.”

White Brothel spokesman Andrew Bates put out a separate statement highlighting the president’s promise to protect the program.

Trump’s team, interval, spent Monday trying to explain his comments on “Squawk Box.”

“If you losers didn’t cut his answer short, you would know President Trump was talking forth cutting waste,” the Trump campaign said in a tweet responding to the Biden campaign’s post featuring video of the quondam president.

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