By The opinion
For Joe Biden’s campaign manager, Jennifer O’Malley Dillon, the President maintained the central axis of his government during the debate he held with Donald Trumpmainly focused on the protection of citizens’ rights and their well-being.
“Tonight, President Biden laid out a positive, winning vision for America’s future: one where every American has a fair chance to achieve the American dream, where all of our rights are protected, and where our president fights to strengthen our democracy, not to tear it down,” he said.
Ahead of the debate, the Biden campaign launched a flurry of media, online and billboard ads to underscore that Trump “is focused on benefiting only one person: himself” as well as in the Republican’s position against abortion, his role in the storming of the Capitol and in his criminal conviction.
Under that same stance, O’Malley Dillon assured that Trump maintained his same mystique, “offering a dark and retrograde window into what the United States will look like if he sets foot in the White House again: A country where women are forced to beg for the health care they need to stay alive. A country that puts the interests of billionaires above those of working people. And a former president who not once, not twice, but three times, failed to promise that he would accept the results of a free and fair election this November.”
“Trump’s performance tonight reminded the American people why he was fired four years ago and reaffirmed how much is at stake this November for the future of our country,” he recalled.
The adviser, Jennifer O’Malley Dillon, who was Biden’s 2020 campaign manager and has served as deputy chief of staff in the White House since he became president.
Biden attacks Trump for his conviction
During the debate, Joe Biden attacked Donald Trump for being convicted, “This man is a criminal.”
Biden specifically took the opportunity to accuse him of having had relations with Daniels when his wife, Melania, was pregnant, something Trump said was false, as he has done throughout the judicial process.
Trump is scheduled to be sentenced on July 11, just days before the Republican convention in Milwaukee, where he will be officially declared the Republican Party’s presidential candidate.
Trump faces three other criminal charges: one in Washington DC for his efforts to overturn his loss to Biden in the 2020 election, another in Georgia for actions he took to that end in that state, and another in Florida for illegally storing classified material at his Mar-a-Lago mansion after leaving office.
*With information from EFE.
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