President Joe Biden continued his re-election campaign in South Carolina.
of the United States president Joe Biden continued his re-election campaign on Monday in Charleston, South Carolina, reports The Guardian. Biden spoke to supporters at the church where nine people were killed in a shooting in 2015.
Biden continued the former president of the United States Donald Trump's criticism in his second campaign speech of the year. Among other things, Biden called Trump a “loser” because Trump has not agreed to accept the election result of the 2020 presidential election.
“There's one thing they don't have. They don't have respect for the 81 million people who voted differently. Who voted for my candidacy,” Biden said of Trump and the former president's allies.
“In their world, these Americans, including you, don't count, but that's not the real world. That's not democracy. That's not America,” Biden continued.
In his speech, Biden also brought up Trump's recent comments regarding the school shooting in Iowa at the beginning of the year. One person was killed and five were wounded in a school shooting in Perry, Iowa, near the state capital, Des Moines, on Friday. The suspected shooter, a 17-year-old boy, was also found dead.
“It's absolutely terrible, it's surprising to see it happening right here. But we have to get over it now, we have to move on,” Trump commented on the incident at his own campaign meeting.
According to Biden, Trump's reaction is hard to believe.
“My answer is that we have to stop him,” Biden said.
of The Guardian According to reports, protesters calling for a cease-fire in Gaza interrupted Biden's speech in the church. Biden's supporters who were there started shouting “four more years” chants at the protesters.
“I understand their fervor. I have been working with the Israeli government to get them to scale back and withdraw in significant numbers from Gaza,” the president then told the crowd.
According to The Guardian, riot police removed the protesters from the premises after the incident.
President Biden launched his re-election campaign on Friday in Pennsylvania. Biden also commented on Trump's actions at the time and stated, among other things, that Trump used language that reminds me Adolf Hitler the nazi party.
At the time, the Democratic president painted a picture of himself as a defender of US institutions and warned that if Trump wins a second term in the White House, democracy itself will be in danger.
Biden's latest attacks on Trump are likely the result of criticism among Democrats that the incumbent president's re-election campaign has gotten off to a slow start.
Biden is behind Trump in some polls, and his approval numbers are worse than any modern president in the United States at this point in his term.
Biden's election campaign already considers Trump the most likely election opponent, even though the official battle for the Republican nomination doesn't even start until the middle of this month.
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