ATLANTA (AP) – Like Donald Trump campaigns for a return to the White House, he often looks back more than 40 years and seven administrations to belittle the president Joe Biden comparing him to a 99 year old man Jimmy Carter.
More recently, Asset used his first stop of the campaign after his criminal trial began in New York to tease the 46th president by saying that the recently widowed 39th president hospice patient who left office in 1981, was selfishly pleased with Biden’s record.
“Biden is the worst president in the history of our country, worse than Jimmy Carter by far,” Trump said in a variation of a quip he used throughout the 2024 campaign, including as former first lady. Rosalynn Carter was on his deathbed. “Jimmy Carter is happy,” Trump continued of the two Democrats, “because he had a brilliant presidency compared to Biden.”
It was once common for Republicans like Trump to mock Carter. Many Democrats, including Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, also kept their distance for years, after a struggling economy, energy shortages and a long-running U.S. hostage crisis led to Carter’s crushing defeat in 1980. negative waves have diminishedHowever, with the passage of time and reconsideration of Carter’s legacy as a political leader, Nobel laureate and global humanitarian.
That’s leading some observers, Democrats in particular, to question Trump’s attempts to impose on Biden the decades-old baggage of a frail man who quietly ended his public life last November. mourn for his wife 77 years old.
“It’s just a very dated reference,” said pollster Zac McCrary, whose Alabama-based firm worked for Biden. “It’s like a Democrat launching an attack on Gerald Ford, Herbert Hoover or William McKinley. For voters, this means nothing except that Trump is attacking a figure that most Americans believe has brought much to their country and the world.”
Trump loyalists insist that even a near-centenarian is a legitimate target in the difficult reality of presidential politics.
“I probably said it before President Trump: Joe Biden is worse than Jimmy Carter,” said Georgia resident Debbie Dooley, an early national Tea Party organizer during Obama’s first term and a Trump supporter ever since. the start of his 2016 campaign. Dooley said inflation under Biden justifies the parallel: “I’m old enough to remember the gas lines under President Carter. »
Any comparison, of course, involves selective interpretation, and Trump’s decision to introduce a third president into the campaign brings complications for all three — and perhaps some irony for Trump, who, like Carter, was rejected by voters after one mandate.
Neither campaign responded to requests for comment on Trump’s comparisons to Carter.
Carter remains at home in Plains, Ga., where those close to him say he has been following the campaign. Biden is without a doubt the closest white friend Carter has had…
