by Viviana Mazza
The American president speaks about the tycoon at a fundraiser in Boston: “Democracy is in danger with him, we cannot let him win.” The tycoon’s answer: “I will only be a dictator on the first day of the presidency, when I “Close the borders and cancel climate policy.”
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NEW YORK “If Donald Trump wasn’t running, I’m not sure I would run. But we can’t let him win,” President Joe Biden said in the evening at a meeting with his campaign and Democratic Party financers in Boston. Words that surprised the president’s advisers, at a time when doubts about his age (81 years old) continue to appear as a cause for concern among the electorate. But a spokesman said Biden beat Trump once and could do it again.
Returning to the White House, as soon as he stepped off the helicopter, the president responded firmly to reporters who asked him whether he would withdraw if Trump gave up the race: “No, not now.” Sources close to Biden have said He has told reporters in the past that his decision to run again in 2024 is tied to the belief that neither Vice President Kamala Harris nor any other Democratic candidate can beat Trump.
Also in 2020, Biden said his decision to run for the White House was tied in part to then-President Trump, including his words justifying the march by far-right nationalists in Charlottesville. Now at every campaign event, including the three he attended on Tuesday in Massachusetts, Biden repeats that his predecessor is an absolute threat to American democracy, which is “at greatest risk in 2024” because of the tycoon and his allies’ determination are, “to destroy”. the institutions. At Tuesday night’s events, he urged the audience to think about what could happen if Trump returned to the White House, noting that he promised “revenge” to his supporters and said he wanted to eradicate “parasites” from the country . Among those sounding the alarm in recent days, Biden also recalled former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney, who spoke of a nation of “sleepwalkers on the path to dictatorship.”
A few hours later, at a meeting with voters in Iowa, the first state to vote in the Republican Party primary in January, 77-year-old former President Trump responded to the allegations: “I will only be a dictator the first time. “Presidency Day, when I close the borders, cancel climate policy and start drilling,” said the tycoon. “It is the Democrats who are abusing their power, not me.” The former president, who is accused of trying to manipulate the outcome of the 2020 vote, claimed that “the enthusiasm” for his candidacy “is greater than “We have never done so before, more than in the 2016 and 2020 elections, in which we did very well,” and accused Democrats of “bankrolling” his primary rivals, Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley.
Although some recent polls have shown Trump leading against Biden in hypothetical clashes in several swing states over whether they will be the two parties’ nominees, the president’s campaign is downplaying the significance of those results a year before the vote. And Biden ended his evening by calling Trump a “defeated president”: “He didn’t show up at my first inauguration, which I can’t call a disappointment, but I expect he won’t show up at the next one either .” In October, Biden and the Democratic Party said they had raised more than $71 million for his election in the past three months, a sign that donors continue to stand with him. All week long his schedule full of fundraising events takes him to Los Angeles on Friday, amid celebrities like Steven Spielberg, Barbara Streisand and an appearance by Lenny Kravitz.
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December 6, 2023 (modified December 6, 2023 | 05:01)
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