President of the United States, Joe Bidenwho is confined to his home in Delaware after contracting Covid-19, announced Friday that he will resume his campaign activities for the November elections next week.
The campaign made the claim in a statement attacking “dark vision” that former President Donald Trump (2017–2021), outlined in his Republican nomination acceptance speech Thursday night at the party’s convention in Milwaukee.
“I look forward to getting back to the campaign trail next week,” Biden said in a statement as Pressure was increased on him to withdraw his candidacy.This Friday, more members of Congress publicly asked him to “pass the baton” to someone younger.
In this statement, Biden makes no mention of the insurrection within his party, but merely presents the election as a dilemma between his vision of the United States and what Trump laid out during his speech. “The task is great and the choice is clear. “Together we will win”he claims.
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He spends much of his statement criticizing Trump, saying his 90-minute speech “focused on his own grievances” and He didn’t put any plans on the table. “unite” the country or “improve the lives of workers.”
“Donald Trump’s dark vision of the future is not who we are as Americans. Together, as a party and as a country, we can and will defeat him at the polls,” he says.
Last Thursday, Trump gave a 90-minute speech that began in a somber tone: alluding to the assassination attempt he had survived a few days earlierand in which he called for unity, although he also sparked conspiracy theories about 2020 election fraud and returned to his tough rhetoric against migrants.
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Biden is in isolation at his home in Delaware after He tested positive for Covid-19 last Wednesday. during the election campaign in Nevada, a key state for the November elections.
About thirty members of Congress have publicly asked Biden drop out of the presidential race and some have publicly asked him to “pass the baton” this Friday, adding to the pressure on the president.
Biden has seen his support among key party figures slip in recent hours, according to a report Thursday Washington PostFormer President Barack Obama (2009-2017) told his inner circle that Biden should ‘seriously reconsider’ future of his candidacy.
The call for his resignation came after a debate against Trump on June 27 in which Biden, who at 81 is the oldest president in U.S. history, projected an old image and he had difficulty finishing some sentences. (EFE)