President Joe Biden's reelection campaign has claimed they raised over a million dollars in online donations during the 24 hours following his January 6 anniversary speech.
Former President Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner for the nomination, panned the speech as a “pathetic fearmongering campaign event.”
“In election after election, democracy and freedom are mobilizing issues for the American people. In 2024, that will be no different, and we are encouraged by the strong grassroots enthusiasm we are seeing around the President’s core campaign message,” Rob Flaherty, Biden’s deputy campaign manager, told The Hill.
On Friday, Biden spoke in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, and Trump later spoke in Sioux Center, Iowa.
During Biden's speech, he claimed that “democracy is on the ballot.” BIDEN (whose party is attempting to remove President Trump from the ballot): "We must be clear: democracy is on the ballot!" pic.twitter.com/9QsEbbVxfS
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“Today we are here to answer the most important of questions: Is democracy still America’s sacred cause” Biden said. “This isn’t rhetorical, academic, or hypothetical. Whether democracy is still America’s sacred cause is the most urgent question of our time. It is what the 2024 election is all about.”
Biden also spoke about January 6 at length and referred to Trump as a "dictator." Joe Biden is calling Trump a “dictator” while simultaneously supporting his chief political opponent getting kicked off the ballot pic.twitter.com/dER9htucqu
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Trump responded by calling Biden's speech a “pathetic fearmongering campaign event” and said that the Democrat is railing about "democracy" because he can't hit him on any other issue. TRUMP: “Our military leaders have gone woke and we're teetering on the brink of World War III. And I am the only candidate in this race who's up to the task of saving America from every single Biden disaster, starting on day one.”“Our military leaders have gone woke and we're teetering on the brink of World War III. And I am the only candidate in this race who's up to the task of saving America from every single Biden disaster, starting on day one.”
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Biden's approval rating has long been on a downward spiral, which Trump was sure to mention.
“Joe Biden’s record is an unbroken streak of weakness, incompetence, corruption and failure. Other than that he’s doing quite well,” Trump said, mocking Biden's stutter. Trump responds to Biden’s speech by claiming that Biden stuttered through it. He then does his impression of people who stutter pic.twitter.com/DwZo4SITHA
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Trump's Biden impersonation drew laughs from the crowd.
“Biden, if you take a look at what he’s doing on the border or inflation, or our military, that horrible day in Afghanistan, you look at what he’s done with energy,” Trump continued. “All throughout the world, we’re an embarrassment as a country. We’ve become an embarrassment as a country.”
