Joe Biden resumed his campaign for the presidential elections and appeared at the annual conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where He told African-American voters that he is “fully committed.”
Besides, The president harshly criticized the policies of former president and Republican candidate Donald Trump.
“I am fully committed!” the Democratic president proclaimed during his first campaign event since the attempted assassination of Trump.
Biden was greeted with chants of “four more years” at his meeting with the NAACP, the most important lobbying group for the African-American community in its fight for equality and representation.
In the midst of a tense atmosphere following the attack on Donald Trump, Biden said, “It’s a tense moment in this country. It’s time to have a serious conversation. Politics is getting too heated.”
Following up on his Oval Office address on Sunday, Biden said all political actors are obliged to tone down the tensions after years of polarization. “We must reject violence in all its forms. Violence is not the answer,”
The president, for his part, said he was “grateful” that Trump was not seriously injured on Saturday when a man tried to assassinate him during a rally in Pennsylvania and reiterated his calls to lower political tensions in an especially contentious presidential campaign.
Howeverargued that those calls to tone down do not mean that he should not “tell the truth” about what the Trump Presidency is all about, “If you are going to be frank on one issue, you can’t be silent on others.”
In this sense, He accused Trump of being a nightmare for the African-American communitywith attempts to end access to health care, police brutality against black citizens, and the mishandling of the pandemic, which disproportionately affected communities of color.
“The Trump administration was hell for African Americans”“He said, causing applause. “He tried to repeal health insurance and leave millions of people without coverage, gave tax breaks to the richest and made the debt explode. public”, said.
He even recalled that, “In the face of peaceful protests following the death of George Floyd, Donald Trump mobilized the National Guard. What the hell is wrong with this man?” Biden said.
According to the Biden campaign, the NAACP conference, the oldest civil rights organization in the US, was the president’s first stop in Las Vegas. On Wednesday he will speak at the convention of UNIDOS, an influential Latino organization, another group he needs to stay in the White House.
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