Biden campaign weighs in on Iowa caucuses: Candidates all 'singing the same, terrible song'

Monday night's Iowa caucuses are the first chance for voters to weigh in on the Republican presidential candidates — and President Joe Biden's campaign has already readied their argument on the results.

Advisers tell ABC News that while GOP candidates are racing to the right, Biden is focused on fighting for democracy and American freedoms.

That is likely to be a familiar refrain throughout the 2024 race. The president, whom Republicans assail as too «feeble» and ineffective on issues like inflation and immigration, is pushing back on his would-be opponents, labeling them as election deniers enthralled to Trump-style rhetoric and opposed to abortion rights.

«There is no difference between the Republican candidates in the field… all of these Republican candidates are singing the same, terrible song,» Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said at a press conference on Monday, focusing his remarks on contrasts between Biden and Donald Trump, the GOP primary front-runner.

Biden's campaign dispatched top allies to Iowa ahead of the caucuses, including Pritzker, Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith and Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, to counterprogram Republicans' message even as they acknowledge many voters still aren't fully tuned in.

A campaign official said they will have a war room set up at campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, to monitor the Iowa caucuses. Aides will dissect data like results from precincts and GOP turnout.

The president has his own issues. He's received months of poor or mediocre polling and has an approval rating mired in the 30s, according to 538. Republicans «think anyone can beat him,» Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said on ABC's «This Week» on Sunday.

Pritzker seemed to acknowledge that on Monday, telling reporters,