What was the reason for the confrontation between Biden and Trump in Georgia?
For all intents and purposes the 2024 presidential election is under way with Biden and Trump facing off via dueling rallies in swing-state Georgia.
While neither party has formally nominated a presidential candidate, after the results of Super Tuesday the two frontrunners Joe Biden and Donald Trump have basically cemented their places at the top of the ticket. The 2024 presidential campaign got into full swing on Saturday evening when the two candidates held dueling rallies in Georgia.
There are eight months to go until the general election but the two candidates are taking on each other’s record to sway voters that aren’t already decided in the rematch. The swing state will be crucial to come out on top in November with Biden and Trump running neck-and-neck in the polls.
What was the reason for the confrontation between Biden and Trump in Georgia?
Fresh off his State of the Union address the current President was looking to capitalize on the momentum from is fiery speech before a joint-session of Congress. Speaking at a rally at Pullman Yards in Atlanta, Biden’s opening salvo blasted Trump’s character, who was set to hold his own rally just an hour-and-a-half drive away.
“It can tell you a lot about a person who he keeps company with,” he said getting a laugh out of the crowd. Trump was in Rome, Georgia for his own rally with Marjorie Taylor Greene, the firebrand GOP US representative from the Peach State, and had hosted the authoritarian prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, the day before at his Mar-a-Lago club.
Biden went on to list the other “dictators and authoritarian thugs” that Trump has been “sucking up to” including Kim Jong Un, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin. “When he says he wants to be a dictator, I believe him,” he added.
He went on to attack his predecessor and Trump’s adherents in the Republican party for “trying to take our freedoms away.” As well for the GOP candidate calling immigrants “vermin,” and saying that they were “poisoning the blood of America.”
Trump, at his own rally, once again attacked Biden’s State of the Union address calling it a “angry, dark, hate-filled rant.” One of the former president’s main focuses was on immigration saying “the border is the biggest problem.” Besides criticizing Biden for not bringing up the topic until well into his speech, he also blasted him for a pair of blunders.
He slammed Biden for mispronouncing Laken Riley’s name during the State of the Union. As well for apologizing for using the word “illegal” to describe her suspected killer, saying that he should’ve used the term “undocumented” in an earlier interview prior to going on stage in Atlanta.
In his rambling speech Trump, beside talking about Biden’s handling of the border crisis, also railed against other Biden policies and proposals as well as his handling of the economy.