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By Benjamin Lynch
US Politics and National Affairs Reporter
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President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump kicked off the new year with messages that indicated a potentially bitter run for the presidency in 2024.
Biden railed against "MAGA extremism" in a message to followers on X, formerly Twitter.
"Happy New Year, everyone," the 46th president said, posting a picture of himself and Vice President Kamala Harris. "In 2024, we're ready to keep delivering for the American people and fight back against MAGA extremism. Let's finish the job."
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Biden has previously expressed doubt about whether he would be running this year if Trump had chosen not to.
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"If Trump wasn't running, I'm not sure I'd be running," he told a fundraiser in Massachusetts in December.
"We cannot let him win for the sake of our country," Biden said.
Trump likewise sent out a tweet wishing Americans a happy new year but also indicating what the messaging would be like in his 2024 campaign.
Trump wished an "early New Year salutation" to his "crooked" Democrat opponent and continued to falsely claim he lost a rigged election in 2020, for which there is no evidence.
Also in the message were claims that the White House was working to allow illegal immigrants to enter the U.S. in order to influence the next election, despite the fact that non-citizens are not able to vote in U.S. federal elections.
On his Truth Social media platform, Trump wrote: "As the New Year fast approaches, I would like to wish an early New Year's salutation to crooked Joe Biden and his group of radical left misfits and thugs on their never-ending attempt to destroy our nation through lawfare, invasion and rigging elections.
"They are now scrambling to sign up as many of those millions of people they are illegally allowing into [our] country, in order that they will be ready to vote in the presidential election of 2024."
Newsweek has approached the White House and a spokesperson for Trump via email.
Trump and Biden are currently the favorites to win the respective Republican and Democrat nominations, which would lead to a rematch of the 2020 presidential election.
Trump's "crooked" moniker for Biden is the same one he gave Hillary Clinton in 2016, indicating his election-fighting tactics have changed little from his first run for the White House.
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This time, however, Trump has four criminal indictments hanging over his head before voters go to the polls on November 5. It remains to be seen if the four trials in New York, Florida, Georgia and Washington, D.C., will begin and be wrapped up before polling day.
Trump denies all of the charges against him and says they are politically motivated.
A number of recent polls have Trump leading Biden in a 2024 matchup—neither are yet the confirmed candidates for their parties—causing some reported concerns among Democrats.
A poll by the American Research Group from December 17-20 showed Biden's approval rating at just 37 percent, while 57 percent disapproved of his presidency.
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