The 30-second ad, titled "Unhinged," focuses on Biden's response to Trump's public and private efforts to get foreign governments to investigate Biden and his son Hunter. It will run in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada.
The ad is geared to show a Democratic audience that Biden, who polls show battling Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont at the top of the polls, is the most electable candidate -- or at least the one Trump fears the most -- in the party's 2020 field.
It is also a response to the Trump campaign's ads in early states that include false claims about Biden, his son and Ukraine and hit Democrats for beginning impeachment proceedings over Trump's effort to pressure the Ukrainian President to investigate the Bidens. There is no evidence of wrongdoing by either Biden in Ukraine.
After a narrator says Trump is lying about Joe Biden, the ad features footage of Biden's speech this week in Reno, Nevada, in which he forcefully responded to Trump.
"Now, fearful about his reelection, he's becoming more unhinged," Biden says in the video. "He wants a campaign on his terms. He imagines that this tactic will allow him to pick his opponent and face only the candidates he thinks he can beat."
Leaning into microphones, Biden adds: "We're not going to let Donald Trump choose the Democratic candidate."
The ad, which will hit the airwaves early next week, comes after Biden announced he had raised $15 million in 2019's third quarter -- putting him behind Sanders, Warren and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg but ahead of other Democratic 2020 hopefuls.
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