![]() Last month, the account released a video of Jean-Pierre saying “I don’t have anything” 100 times when she didn’t have an answer for reporters. They also take credit for getting inside the head of White House press secretary KARINE JEAN-PIERRE. “The philosophy is, how we are getting a message out there that convinces people to vote Republican,” TOMMY PIGOTT, the RNC’s rapid response director, who helps manage the account, told West Wing Playbook.Īnd it’s not just Biden who they’re targeting. Magoo, the elderly bumbling cartoon character. The account takes credit for advancing an image of Biden as the modern day Mr. ![]() “They think crowing about intentionally lying makes them tough when it really just worsens the feedback loop.”īut for all the eyebrows they raise, the individuals behind believe they’ve had the impact they set out for, and that Biden - through act and action - has helped them do it. “It’s like they handed the keys over to some nihilist teenage shitposters who wanted to see how fast they could get reporters to discount everything they say,” a Biden campaign alum told West Wing Playbook. Its critics find it bewildering, the stuff of trolls. To a degree the account, with its attention-grabbing and bellicose offerings, has become a reflection of the current age of personality politics and hyperpartisanship. “If only the Biden White House and Democrats were focused on real issues instead of spending their day whining about an RNC Twitter account,” said RNC spokesperson EMMA VAUGHN. They’ve also accused those who complain about them of having misplaced priorities. DANIEL DALE, CNN’s fact checker, said in January the account blocked him after he followed it. Rather than own up to the inaccuracies, the team behind has sometimes sought to stop being called out for them. The Washington Post’s Fact Checker, GLENN KESSLER, called the tweet “dumb” because Biden’s medical report has long disclosed the removal of non-melanoma skin cancers before he was president.Īll told, West Wing Playbook counted roughly a dozen fact-checks of the account - including by PolitiFact, CNN and WaPo - that have found claims wrong or misleading. In July, asked whether Biden, during a climate change speech, had just announced he has cancer. The same month, when Biden stood alongside his ATF director STEVE DETTELBACH and joked that he “was responsible for the weather,” tweeted that Dettelbach is Jewish, implying the president was adopting antisemitic tropes. But a Des Moines Register photographer in Menlo, Iowa, noted the president’s jacket was actually stained by distillers grains. In April, claimed Biden was pooped on by a bird at an indoor event in Iowa. Many observers noticed a president acting polite. ![]() The idea was to frame Biden as a pushover. The account also featured a snippet of the president asking Kentucky Gov. This week, highlighted a clip of Biden struggling to put on his jacket in the wind - an otherwise innocuous moment that led to complaints of triviality. Over the course of the Biden presidency, the account, which has more than 242,000 followers and about 30 GOP dedicated researchers who contribute to it, has occasionally been hit by the arrows it’s tried to sling. But its hostile approach has not always been synonymous with accuracy. The RNC says its account has played a role in knocking Biden down multiple pegs. “You are speaking my language,” the official recounted telling a colleague when they talked about having a truly pugnacious account early last year. The early goal, one RNC official recalled, was to be dog-on-a-bone aggressive in an effort to boot Biden out of his political honeymoon. The conservatives behind the feed deliberately took a page from the Trump war room when charting out how they wanted to attack President JOE BIDEN at the start of his term last year: Flood the zone and bully opponents. Send tips | Subscribe here | Email Alex | Email MaxĪsk any Democratic operative these days, including some who work in the Biden White House, about the Twitter account they find most noxious and you’re likely to get the same - the handle for the Republican National Committee to sling mud, tar opponents, and try to shape news cycles - is perhaps the purest distillation of GOP politics in the DONALD TRUMP era. Welcome to POLITICO’s West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration. ![]() Presented by The Coalition to Protect America's Regional Airports
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