Biden campaign rips page from Trump playbook with name-calling strategy

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President Biden's 2024 campaign has employed a new strategy, one taken right out of former President Donald Trump's playbook: name-calling.

Trump, during his 2016 primary campaign, referred to top Republican primary opponents as "Lyin' Ted" Cruz and "Little Marco" Rubio. He took jabs at Democrats like Sen. Elizabeth Warren as "Pocahontas" and Sen. Majority Leader "Cryin'" Chuck Schumer and Speaker of the House "Crazy Nancy" Pelosi.

He called his 2016 presidential opponent "Crooked Hillary" and then, in 2020, called Biden, "Crazy Joe."

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The Biden camp distributed an email this week calling the president's opponent "Broke Don" – a reference to Trump's financial troubles. The 45th president recently failed to secure an appeal bond to delay payment of the $464 million he owes, due to AG Letitia James' civil investigation of The Trump Organization.

"Trump can't raise money, isn't campaigning, and is letting convicts and conspiracy theorists run his campaign," the email claims.

Trump has mocked Biden for years, saying the 46th president allegedly was avoiding the press and "hiding" in his Wilmington, Del. basement during the 2020 race – which the email appears to reference.

"We have a guy that