Biden reelection campaign says Trump-Hitler comparisons ‘not a coincidence’

The reelection campaign for President Biden said comparisons between former President Trump and Nazi leader Adolf Hitler are “not a coincidence” in a Wednesday post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

“This is not a coincidence,” read the campaign’s post, which also featured a graphic in which the campaign says the former president “parrots” Hitler while highlighting statements by the former president alongside statements by the Nazi leader. One of the statements it references, in which Trump has said immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” has drawn pushback from both sides of the political aisle recently.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) has called Trump’s “poisoning” remark “unhelpful rhetoric.” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) also said she didn’t agree with the former president.

“We’re all children of immigrants,” she said. “It’s just part of his campaign rhetoric, I guess. I don’t know, I can’t explain it.”  

The Biden campaign made a similar comment Sunday when a campaign spokesperson for Biden said the former president had “parroted Adolf Hitler” at a rally last Saturday.

“Trump is not shying away from his plan to lock up millions of people into detention camps and continues to lie about that time when Joe Biden obliterated him by over 7 million votes three years ago,” Ammar Moussa said in a statement.

Despite the pushback against Trump’s rhetoric, a recent Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom poll found that 42 percent of likely Iowa Republican caucusgoers said that Trump’s recent remarks about immigrants “poisoning the blood” of the country makes them more likely to support him. 

The former president has pushed back against the comparisons to Hitler, who wrote in “Mein Kampf” that German blood was being poisoned by Jews. At a rally in Iowa on Tuesday, Trump mirrored his recent “poisoning the blood” comments and tried to distance himself from Hitler.

“They’re destroying the blood of our country. That’s what they’re doing. They’re destroying our country. They don’t like it when I said that — and I never read ‘Mein Kampf,’” Trump said.