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Biden used to keep quiet about Trump. Now Biden's invoking his name to raise alarms

In the 2024 election, President Biden hopes to benefit from talking more directly about former President Trump. The latest example is their exchange of words about the Affordable Care Act.
President Biden speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Pueblo Memorial Airport in Pueblo, Colo., on Nov. 29.

On the Saturday after Thanksgiving, when not a lot of people were paying attention, former President Donald Trump posted on his social media site that Republicans should "never give up" on repealing and replacing Obamacare.

It would be easy for something like this to get lost amongst the torrent of memes and complaints about his legal travails that Trump posts at all hours. But Biden and his team weren't about to let that happen.

Monday, when people were paying attention again, Biden slipped

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