Biden blasted Trump’s “campaign of resentment, revenge and revenge.”
Milwaukee:
President Joe Biden took a stab at “underdog” Donald Trump on Wednesday in his first campaign battleground since both rivals secured the party nomination in an election expected to go down in U.S. history One of the most hostile elections ever.
The Democrat, speaking to supporters in the key battleground state of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, also blasted his far-right Republican opponents for describing immigrants as “pests.”
A day earlier, both 81-year-old incumbent Biden and 77-year-old Trump won enough delegates to secure their respective parties’ nominations for a rematch in November.
“A lot of you helped me in 2020, and we made sure he was a loser. We’re going to make sure that happens again, right?” Biden told local supporters and volunteers in Milwaukee — and Trump The party will hold its Republican National Convention in the city in July.
Biden has repeatedly called Trump a loser, knowing it would anger the defeated former president, who still refuses to admit he lost four years ago.
Wisconsin and Michigan, which Biden will visit on Thursday, are among the key states he lost to Trump in the 2020 showdown and will need to win again to secure re-election.
Biden is taking on Trump on immigration, a key issue in the election, with Republicans attacking Democrats and adopting increasingly tough rhetoric over record numbers of people crossing the border from Mexico.
“We are a country of immigrants. They are not pests,” Biden said of Trump’s comments last year. Trump also said immigrants “poison the blood of our country.”
Biden also addressed marijuana reform, which he called a priority during last week’s State of the Union address, which Democrats view as equally important as they seek to reach key young and minority voters.
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Earlier in Milwaukee, Biden unveiled more than $3 billion in infrastructure investments to help “left behind” areas as he sought to tout what he called “America’s economic recovery.”
Biden began a tour of battleground states late last week, inspired by a warm and well-received State of the Union address in which he once again took aim at Trump.
The attacks underscored the pain of the next eight months in American politics, with the two oldest electoral candidates in American history making no secret of their personal feud.
The two lashed out at each other after their nominations on Tuesday.
Trump called Biden “the worst, most incompetent, most corrupt and most destructive president in American history.”
Biden blasted Trump’s “campaign of resentment, revenge and revenge” and called him a threat to democracy.
If re-elected, Trump has pledged to become a “dictator” on his first day in office, saying he would close borders, order oil drilling and free supporters imprisoned in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
He also promised the largest mass deportation ever of millions of undocumented immigrants.
Meanwhile, political divisions in Washington have paralyzed U.S. foreign policy and alarmed allies around the world.
Trump’s Republican allies in Congress are blocking Biden’s request for $60 billion in vital military aid to Ukraine to fight the Russian invasion.
Trump said he would not provide a penny of military aid to support Ukraine and encouraged Russian President Vladimir Putin to attack NATO allies who do not meet their financial commitments.
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