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Despite the teleprompter, not everything went according to plan: Joe Biden in Pittsburgh on Monday. Image: keystone
Joe Biden goes on the offensive, but has strange dropouts
Presidential candidate Joe Biden attacked President Donald Trump head-on in a speech in Pittsburgh. However, a failure of the Democrat could be remembered.
It was only ten days since he gave a speech at the Democratic Convention in the United States that Joe Biden did not even mention the name of Donald Trump. On Monday in Pittsburgh, things looked very different: Time and again, the Democratic candidate directly attacked the president of the United States.
Biden didn’t beat around the bush in a half-hour speech Monday. He accused Trump of ineptitude and failure, both in the Corona crisis and in reaction to the ongoing violent protests in American cities. Biden spoke in front of the cameras in a room at Carnegie Mellon University, but without an audience.
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Biden held Trump directly responsible for the riots in several cities in the United States, where there were deaths. “This president cannot end the violence,” the Democrat said during his speech. “Fires are burning and we have a president who lights the flames instead of fighting them.”
Trump sees the escalation of violence as an opportunity to save himself politically, Biden said.
At the same time, the 77-year-old distanced himself from looting and destruction. Those who do not obey the law should be prosecuted, Biden said.
Biden also challenged allegations by Republicans that he was a socialist. Do I really look like a radical socialist? Really? “He wanted a safe America, without Covid, without crime, without looting, without bad police and without racially motivated violence, said the former vice president, who immediately launched the following attack on the president:” Certainly four more years ago with Donald Trump. “
Trump tried to give voters the feeling that only he could ensure safety, Biden said. But the truth is that Donald Trump did not protect the United States. He’s already president, whether he knows it or not. “
Biden’s slip of the tongue
The Democratic presidential candidate, who is not exactly considered a brilliant speaker, also made a big mistake this time, although he refrained from using the teleprompter.
Biden said: It’s difficult to translate because it doesn’t make sense even in English:
“COVID has taken this year, just since the outbreak, it has taken more than 100 years. Look, here’s the lives, it’s just, it’s, uh, I mean, you think about it. More lives this year than any other year in the last hundred years. “
The confusing statement is gleefully exploited by his opponents. The dropout video is spreading rapidly on the Internet. Critics accuse the 77-year-old of not being mentally fit for the presidency. This thesis received additional nourishment on Monday, when Biden left the lectern again without answering the reporter’s questions.
Trump’s reaction
And how did the government react to the speech? After the speech, Trump’s campaign leadership accused Biden of failing to condemn Antifa and of not turning against people police described as “cancerous growth.”
Nor did he call on the governors of the Democratic Party to call the National Guard against violence in cities. “These left-wing rioters are supporters of Joe Biden.”
In an America under Biden there is no security. Trump tweeted: “I just saw what Biden had to say. It seemed to me that I was accusing the police much more than the rioters, anarchists, agitators and looters. “
Of course, Biden’s failure did not escape the president. He has already retweeted the corresponding sequence, so it is very possible that in the end this scene of Biden’s appearance in Pittsburgh will be remembered.
(With sda / dpa material)
That was Biden’s speech at the Democratic Convention:
Video: watson / a
