Biden team seeks to pin 'basement' campaign reputation on Trump

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President Biden's re-election campaign has been touting recent swing-state appearances as evidence of his presence on the trail ahead of the general election, while suggesting former President Donald Trump was avoiding the important battlegrounds.

"Joe Biden has hit 8 swing states in 18 days, all while being POTUS. Donald Trump has golfed a lot, all while truth-socialing really hard," Biden spokesperson James Singer wrote Wednesday on X, alongside a graphic of the core swing states.

"Campaigning by the numbers: Biden visited 8 battleground states in 18 days. Trump? One. Just one battleground state," campaign staffer Daniel Wessel added.

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In a press release last week, the Biden campaign slammed Trump, claiming "Broke Don Hides in Basement." In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Biden was notably criticized for campaigning over Zoom webcasts in a temporary basement studio at his home in Delaware. Since then, a candidate who is relatively absent from visibility has been referred to as running a "basement" campaign.

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However, Trump's campaign pushed back on the claim that he isn't visible in the critical states, noting he will be in two of