Biden’s new $14 million advertising blitz begins with an attack on Trump’s plans to “end” ACA.

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden’s campaign is launching a new $14 million advertising offensive in a half-dozen likely swing states, starting Wednesday with a spot against his predecessor who wanted to “cancel” the Affordable Care Act.

“Donald Trump is openly advocating for repeal of the ACA, severing a lifeline for tens of millions of Americans,” campaign communications director Michael Tyler told reporters on Tuesday. “We will highlight the healthcare contrast clearly in our paid editions this month.”

That spending would include at least $1 million to reach Black, Latino and Asian American voters, including advertising on radio stations aimed at those communities.

“We need to reach every voter we can reach,” said Dan Kanninen, the campaign’s battleground states director.

He added that Trump’s criminal trial on charges in New York, his decision to spend many days out of court and golfing near his country club in South Florida, and his inability or unwillingness to support the former South Carolina governor , Nikki Haley, to woo in Republican presidential race The primaries will make it harder for the presumptive Republican nominee to get the support he needs in November.

“The split screen between our two campaigns is only getting sharper,” Kanninen said. “While Trump is stuck in New York or hiding out at Mar-a-Lago, we are expanding and deepening our reach in all critical battleground communities.”

The Trump campaign did not respond to a HuffPost request for comment. But Trump himself complained again at the end of the trial on Tuesday that his trial was preventing him from campaigning, as he has so often done.

“I’m stuck. I’m here instead of Georgia, instead of New Hampshire, instead of Wisconsin and all the different states we wanted to be in. We can’t be there because we’re stuck in this process that everyone knows about “It’s a hoax,” he said in a hallway outside the courtroom where he has spent most of the last three weeks.

Trump is accused of 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal a $130,000 payment to a porn star to silence her before the 2016 election, when her story could have ruined his presidential campaign. The actress known as Stormy Daniels testified under oath Tuesday that she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006.

Trump also faces three additional charges, two of which relate to his attempted coup on January 6, 2021 and his actions leading up to that day. Both cases could go to trial later this year.

The fourth indictment, based on his refusal to turn over classified documents he took with him to Mar-a-Lago when he left the White House, was postponed Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who has since been assigned the case to her, In general, he is sympathetic to Trump’s claim that he is being unfairly “persecuted.”

Trump also lost civil judgments this year that required him to pay $454 million to New York state for deceptive business practices and $88 million to writer E. Jean Carroll, whom he sexually abused digitally penetrated her against her will, a federal court jury found. The judge in that case wrote that the act constituted rape in common parlance.

At the end of March, the Biden campaign, the Democratic Party and their joint fundraising committee had $171.9 million in the bank, compared to $93.1 million for Trump and the Republicans – largely due to Biden not having any had a competitive primary and that he was able to raise large sums of money for his party. Candidates are limited to donations of $6,600 and cannot collect six-figure checks for their parties until they receive their nominations. For Trump, that didn’t happen until March.

Despite all this, Trump is essentially tied with Biden in national polls and is slightly ahead of him in the seven likely swing states.

Biden campaign officials, however, said they were not concerned.

“We are very confident about where we are now. We will not pay attention to the polls or reverse our strategy based on the results of the polls,” said Quentin Fulks, the principal deputy campaign manager. “We believe this race will be won locally, in the States.”