President Trump and his Republican allies were quick to accept Thursday night Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
The president accused the former vice president of making false promises when the Trump campaign reiterated his claim that Biden “is a pawn of the radical left.”
In his acceptance speech, Biden promised to tear America apart by crises varying from the coronavirus pandemic and the economic upheaval it has caused to partisan divisions and racial inequalities.
“Here and now I give you my word, if you entrust me with the presidency, I will not draw the best of us the least,” Biden explained. “I will be an ally of the light, not of our darkness. And make no mistake, unite that we can and will overcome this season of darkness in America.”
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However, Biden’s promises fell on deaf ears to Trump and his supporters.
“In 47 years, Joe did none of the things he’s talking about right now,” Trump tweeted while Biden spoke. “He will never change, just become!”
The president’s campaign expanded on his tweet by dredging Trump’s criticism that Biden’s campaign was co-opted by the Democratic Party’s progressive wing led by screenwriter Bernie Sanders of Vermont, an independent who is caucus with the Democrats, and Newcomers Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez of New York.
“By accepting his party’s nomination tonight, Joe Biden has formally become a pawn of the radical left,” said Tim Murtaugh, Trump 2020 communications director, in a statement. “His name is on the campaign logo, but the ideas come from the socialist extremists.”
The Trump campaign’s fierce attacks on Biden contrasted with what was for the most part a speech by Biden that called on Americans to “come together” and at historic moments drew on President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal the civil rights movement represented by late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga.
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Biden, however, made some pointed attacks on Trump – though without specifically mentioning the president’s name.
“The current president has dressed America for too long. Too much anger. Too much fear. Too much distribution, ”said Biden. “America is at a disadvantage. A time of real danger, but of extraordinary possibilities. We can choose the path to become angry, less hopeful, and more divided. A path of shadow and suspicion. Or we can choose another path, and together take this opportunity to heal, to be reunited, to unite. A path of hope and light. ”
Republican officials had none of Biden’s words, with GOP faction leader Ronna McDaniel calling Biden’s career “a complete failure” and mocking his priorities for foreign policy in the House and as deputy the president.
“Joe Biden’s career has been a complete failure, from the slowest economic recovery since WWII to ‘having failed on almost every major foreign policy and national security issue in the past four decades,'” she tweeted.
The president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., also waited in, referring to Biden as a “swamp creature in Washington, DC.”
“After 48 years as a swamp in Washington DC, does Joe Biden now want to concentrate on making in America?” Trump Jr. tweeted. ‘Why did he not do it in the first half century in DC? Why did he push so hard for NAFTA and TPP that destroyed American manufacturing and American jobs? What a joke. ”
If the words of Trump and his supporters are any indication, the tone for this week’s Republican National Convention seems far different from that of this week’s DNC.
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Trump claimed during a campaign stop at Biden’s birthplace in Scranton, Pa., On Thursday that if Biden is elected in November, law and order in the country would break and progressive Democrats would take control of federal policy.
“At stake in this election is the survival of our nation,” Trump said. “We are dealing with crazy people on the other side, away standing cold crazy.”
Trump attacked Biden by playing off the unrest in cities with democratic leadership.
“If you want an idea of life under Biden, think of the smoldering ruins in Minneapolis, Portland, the blood-stained sidewalks of Chicago, chaos coming to your city,” Trump said.
While polls suggest the race between Biden and Trump has come closer in recent weeks, the former vice president still has a more than seven-point advantage over the current White House resident, according to an average of polls by RealClearPolitics.
