By Maria Ortiz
President Joe Biden has pushed back on aspects of Donald Trump’s speech accepting the presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention (RCC) and lamented being “stuck at home with Covid.”
Biden, who remains firmly in the race for the 2024 elections, wrote on his X account: “I’m stuck at home with covid, so I had the particular bad luck of watching Donald Trump’s speech at the RNC. What the hell was he talking about?”
I’m stuck at home with COVID, so I had the distinct misfortune of watching Donald Trump’s speech to the RNC.
What the hell was he talking about?
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) July 20, 2024
And he continued writing a thread in which he responded to some of the Republican candidate’s statements, in some cases with more sarcasm than political content, such as “Donald, Hannibal Lecter is not real,” and repeatedly pointing out “his 2025 project,” a program developed by ultraconservative groups from which Trump has tried to distance himself.
The Democratic candidate cited Trump’s presidency to warn that, contrary to what Trump said on Thursday, This one will cut Social Security and Medicareraise taxes on the middle class, worsen debt and inflation, or put immigrants “in mass detention camps.”
Shortly before those messages, his campaign spokesman, Kevin Muñoz, sent an email to the media titled “One week, two very different visions” in which he attacked the “anonymous sources” that have leaked these days. doubts within the Democratic Party about Biden’s ability to win the election.
After highlighting the campaign events of the Biden-Harris duo and their support collected this week, Munoz said that next week Both have “more than twenty press events” and reiterated: “As we have said before, President Biden looks forward to returning to the campaign trail as soon as he can.”
Biden is isolated in his Delaware home after testing positive for Covid with mild symptoms last Wednesday and has experienced a “significant” improvement, according to his doctorr.
Another Democratic senator is the fourth to call on Biden to drop out of the race
Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown became a the fourth Democratic senator to call on President Joe Biden to step aside from his 2024 reelection campaign.
Brown, a vulnerable Democrat running for re-election this year, said in a statement Friday that he thought Biden should withdraw from the race.
“Over the past few weeks, I’ve listened to Ohioans speak out on important issues, including how to continue creating jobs in our state, giving law enforcement the resources to crack down on fentanyl, protecting Social Security and Medicare from cuts, and preventing ongoing efforts to impose a national abortion ban,” Brown said.
On Friday, at least 13 Democratic lawmakers expressed their displeasure with Biden’s candidacy, a further sign that much of the party is running out of patience for him to “pass the baton,” as they ask him, after losing the support of several Democratic leaders, major donors and with polls against him.
With these thirteen democrats, The number of members of Congress calling for Biden’s withdrawal rises to 38which makes up more than 14% of the members of the Democratic caucus in both chambers. Of the 38 who are leading the revolt, 34 are representatives of the Lower House and 4 are senators.
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