He attacked the American president joe biden His potential Republican rival in the upcoming presidential elections Donald Trump He accused him of threatening democracy and adopting “Nazi” rhetoric, and the former president responded by accusing Biden of failing to run the country.
In a speech he delivered yesterday evening, Friday, in the Blue Bell suburb near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, on the third anniversary of the events Storming Congress On January 6, 2021, Biden accused Trump and his supporters of political violence, warning Americans of what he considered a threat posed by the former president to the United States.
While Biden addressed his supporters from a historic site that was one of the army's main camps during the War of Independence, the former president headed to Iowa, and from there responded to the accusations against him.
During his first election rally of the new year, the 81-year-old US President accused his potential rival in next November's elections of using Nazi rhetoric, saying that Trump “talks about the poisoned blood of Americans, using exactly the same rhetoric that was used in Nazi Germany.”
Biden added, “Trump and his supporters who support the slogan, 'Let's make America great again,' not only embrace political violence, but also make it a laughing stock,” considering that the former president is ready to sacrifice American democracy in order to gain power.
Biden spoke at length about the incident of storming Congress, and said that Americans will choose in the upcoming presidential elections between a man “obsessed with the past” and his own interests, in reference to Trump, and another who only cares about “America” and “the future,” saying that the struggle for democracy “ A sacred cause.”
Trump responds
In Sioux, Iowa, former US President Donald Trump delivered a speech to a crowd of his supporters in which he painted a bleak picture of the situation of the United States during the era of Joe Biden, and in which he launched an attack on the current president and also on his Republican rival, Nikki Haley.
Trump said that America under Biden's rule has become a “weak country” suffering from “terrorists” and the influx of immigrants, he said.
The potential Republican candidate for the upcoming US presidential elections described President Joe Biden as a “fraudster” and his speech in Pennsylvania as pathetic, saying that “Biden's record is a continuous chain of weakness, incompetence, corruption and failure.”
Trump's spokesman also said that Biden is the real threat to democracy, and accused him of targeting his political rival and interfering in the elections.
Trump will hold a second election rally today, Saturday, in Iowa, before the Republican Party primary elections scheduled to be held in the state in mid-January.
Recently published opinion polls showed the former president ahead of the current president, and last December Biden had the worst approval rating for a current president less than a year before the presidential elections.
Agence France-Presse quoted William Galsten, an expert at the Brookings Institution, as saying, “If the elections are held tomorrow, President Joe Biden will lose.”
It is noteworthy that Trump has been charged with criminal charges in various cases, and the states of Maine and Colorado have announced that they will ban him from running in the elections. the Republican Party Primary elections for the 2024 presidential elections.