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Joe Biden has come out to fight when he asked Americans if they wanted the “toxin” that is Donald Trump to continue to lead the nation.
The Democratic presidential candidate, speaking in a rare public appearance outside his hometown, criticized the president for his handling of the pandemic, police shootings, protests and job losses.
Speaking in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Mr. Biden He said: “The incumbent president is incapable of telling us the truth, incapable of facing the facts, incapable of healing.
Joe Biden came to Pennsylvania before his campaign speech in Pittsburgh.
“It doesn’t want to shed light, it wants to generate heat. And it’s stoking violence in our cities.
Ask yourself, do I see myself as a radical socialist with a soft spot for rioters? Really? I want a safe America, safe from COVID.
“Safe from crime and looting. Safe from racially motivated violence. Safe from bad cops. Let me be clear, safe from four more years of Donald Trump.”
Trump accepted the Republican nomination and attacked what he called Joe Biden’s ‘radicalism’
He told voters that he is “in this campaign for you” and that he is “not thinking about me,” unlike Trump, he said.
The former vice president has used the campaign so far to highlight Trump’s handling of the pandemic, but broadened his attack Monday to several other issues, including public order, one of the president’s main focuses.
“Does anyone think there will be less violence in the United States if Donald Trump is re-elected?” he asked the crowd.
Biden accused the president of failing to protect the nation, as violent protests have dominated several cities in recent months following police shootings of several black Americans.
“He couldn’t protect this nation, so he’s trying to scare the United States,” he said, adding that Trump “has no problem with the right-wing militia” which is “more heavily armed than the police” taking over. of the protests.
Biden dismissed Trump as unable to address the violence “because for years he has fostered it” and said the president does not want to stop it because he plays on their base.
Reacting to the president saying that Biden will not condemn the violence, the Democrat said: “It is an illegality, plain and simple. And those who do should be prosecuted.”
He also accused Trump of playing a “subordinate role” to Russian President Vladimir Putin and said he had a plan for economic recovery, a plan to address COVID-19 and increase homicide rates.
He added that he had a clean energy strategy and stressed that he would not ban fracking “no matter how many times Donald Trump lies about me.”
The president has been a “toxic presence” who is “poisoning” the way Americans speak and see themselves, he said.
“Will we get rid of this toxin or will we make it a permanent part of our nation’s character?”
At the end of his speech, he quoted Pope John Paul II, saying: “Fear not, fear never builds the future, but hope does.”
