The Biden campaign knows that a conviction — even on 34 counts — isn’t enough to keep Donald Trump out of the White House. So while staff was glued to the news and quickly put out a written statement on the former president’s unprecedented criminal conviction, they took every chance to pivot back to beating Trump in November.
A little over 20 minutes after the jury began reading Trump’s guilty verdicts, the campaign put out a statement urging voters to support President Joe Biden.
“[T]oday’s verdict does not change the fact that the American people face a simple reality. There is still only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: at the ballot box. Convicted felon or not, Trump will be the Republican nominee for president,” Michael Tyler, the Biden campaign’s communications director, said in a statement.