Republican National Committee slams Biden re-election bid in AI ad
The Republican National Committee hit back at President Biden’s campaign announcement on Tuesday morning with a nightmarish AI-generated ad.
The 30-second clip, which debuted shortly after Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris confirmed they would seek re-election in 2024, features artificial intelligence images that show Biden and Harris celebrating their second term, followed by harrowing scenes of China invading Taiwan, shuttered US banks, and cities overrun by crime.
The pictures are set to imagined audio news reports, while text on the screen asks viewers to consider “What if the weakest president we’ve ever had were re-elected.”
The video is the RNC’s first project that is 100% AI-generated, Axios reported. The disruptive technology is poised to play a major role in the 2024 elections as groups use it to generate realistic images and ads.
RNC Chairperson Ronna McDaniel also released a scathing statement on Biden and Harris’ new White House bid.
“Biden is so out-of-touch that after creating crisis after crisis, he thinks he deserves another four years,” she wrote.
“If voters let Biden ‘finish the job,’ inflation will continue to skyrocket, crime rates will rise, more fentanyl will cross our open borders, children will continue to be left behind, and American families will be worse off. Republicans are united to beat Biden and Americans are counting down the days until they can send Biden packing.”
The Democratic National Committee fired back at the RNC Tuesday, calling the ad “remarkably bad” before snarking: “In incredibly telling fashion, the RNC had to *make up* images because, quite simply, they can’t argue with President Biden’s results.”
Candidates looking to replace Biden in 2024 seized on the president’s announcement to attack the Democrat, who former President Donald Trump called “the most corrupt president in American history” in a statement released late Monday.
“Thanks to Joe Biden’s socialist spending calamity, American families are being decimated by the worst inflation in half a century. Banks are failing. Our currency is crashing and the dollar will soon no longer be the world standard, which will be our greatest defeat in over 200 years,” Trump’s campaign wrote.
GOP candidate Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and ambassador to the United Nations, made similarly strong remarks to Fox News following news of Biden’s bid.
“Biden has been the weakest president in modern history,” Haley said. “Under his administration, we’ve had a disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, an unprecedented border crisis, the worst inflation in 40 years, and an emboldened enemy in China.”
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), who has formed an exploratory committee ahead of a likely presidential run, said Tuesday another Biden term “would be a disaster for the American people.
“Joe Biden and the radical Left’s blueprint to ruin America includes attacking our patriotism, targeting our religious liberties, leaving our border wide open, and wasting trillions of dollars we don’t have,” Scott said.
Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy told the same network Tuesday that Biden is being used as a “puppet.”
“It’s a myth that Joe Biden is actually running for president. He’s not,” said the GOP candidate. “It’s just the managerial class using Joe Biden as a front to advance its own agenda. To them Biden’s cognitive impairment isn’t a bug. It’s a feature.”
Asa Hutchinson, the former governor of Arkansas who is set for formally launch his own campaign Wednesday, was less apoplectic in his assessment during an appearance on “CNN This Morning.”
“No one wants a Biden-Trump replay of 2020,” he said. “It was painful then, it would be painful again. And so I think they’re looking for new leadership.”
Former Vice President Mike Pence, another potential 2024 candidate, called out what he called Biden’s “record of failure” when discussing the prez’s chances on Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Co.” Tuesday morning.
“Whoever is the standard-bearer in the Republican Party, I welcome the opportunity to contrast our record, our policies built on economic freedom with the record of failure of the Biden administration in 2024,” Pence said.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, traveling overseas on a trade mission, had no immediate comment on Biden’s announcement, but the president’s insurgent Democratic challenger Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did share his thoughts on Twitter.
“I have known and liked Joe Biden for many years,” he said, “but we differ profoundly on fundamental issues such as corporate influence in government, censorship, civil liberties, poverty, corruption, and war policy, among others.
“I look forward to engaging him in debates and town hall meetings, in a primary election that is honest, civil, and transparent. I invite him into a new era of respectful dialog [sic] in these times of division.”
Marianne Williamson, another Democrat challenging Biden, said the president’s re-election campaign announcement was “concerning.”
“The Democratic Party establishment has indicated it is planning to subvert the primary process by shoe-horning Biden into the nomination, and Americans most concerned about our democracy must not let this happen,” she said. “With over 50% of Democrats, and 70% of all Americans making it clear they wish to see someone other than Biden run against the Republicans in 2024, it is imperative that the voters hear from all candidates running in this primary – not just the President.”
