Global Courant 2023-04-28 02:54:07
Former President Trump said “Crooked Joe Biden” poses a “threat to democracy,” vowing to “crush” him at the polls in November 2024 and “settle our unfinished business.”
Trump hosted a campaign rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Thursday, welcoming the crowd of nearly 2,000 and touting more than 50 messages of support from Granite State officials as he responded to Biden’s pre-recorded reelection campaign announcement.
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“Joe Biden has officially announced that he will seek four more disastrous years in the White House,” Trump said. He vowed to “save” America from another four years of “disastrous” Democratic policies.
Trump, who currently leads the 2024 Republican presidential primary field by more than 30 points in several new polls this week, including the latest Fox News poll, shifted to make a “major announcement.”
“I will delete Hillary Clinton’s name ‘crooked’,” Trump said. “And I’m going to give her a new name — I don’t know, like maybe the beautiful Hillary or the beautiful Hillary — but I’m going to drop the name ‘Crooked’ so we can use the name for Joe Biden, because he will be from now on. be known as Crooked Joe Biden.”
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Trump joked that Clinton is “celebrating somewhere” that his nickname for her was retired in 2016, adding that “never in the history of American politics has anyone been as crooked or dishonest as Joe Biden.”
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“And the press absolutely refuses to report it,” Trump said, criticizing Biden for appearing to use a cheat sheet with a reporter’s name and a pre-planned question during a White House press conference Wednesday afternoon.
Trump, pointing to Biden’s re-election campaign announcement and his comments that “MAGA is a threat to democracy,” insisted that “there’s no threat there.”
“No,” Trump said. “It’s Biden who threatens democracy because he’s extremely incompetent. He has no idea what he’s doing and actually he has no idea, and that’s a very bad position to put our country in.”
He added: “Our country is in a very, very dangerous position right now. Very, very dangerous.”
Trump said the United States is a nation “in serious decline” that has “lost its way”.
“We are led by a hopeless person, but we will win in 2024 and make America great again,” Trump said. ‘We can do it. It’s not too late.’
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“He wants to finish the job of destroying our country,” Trump said. “But in that regard, he’s actually very close — he’s very close to finishing the job.”
Former President Donald Trump (NRA)
He added: “We’re going to beat them at the ballot box and we’re going to settle our unfinished business. It’s not finished yet.”
The crowd erupted in chants of “we love Trump.”
“I love you too,” he said. “That’s why I’m doing this. I had a good life. I didn’t have to appear before grand juries every time I flew over a state — if I fly over a state that happens to be run by the Democrats, they subpoenaed me for to appear in front of a grand jury. These people are sick – they use that stuff as a weapon.”
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Trump’s campaign event was one of the first since he pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records as part of the year-long investigation by Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg.
According to the latest Fox News poll, released late Wednesday, Trump leads the Republican presidential primary field with 53% support.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was at 21%, former Vice President Mike Pence at 6%, former Amb. Nikki Haley with 4%, Vivek Ramaswamy with 3%, and Senator Tim Scott and former Rep. Liz Cheney with 2% each. Greg Abbott, Chris Christie, Larry Elder, Chris Sununu and Glenn Youngkin each get 1%. Asa Hutchinson, Kristi Noem and Francis Suarez get less than 1%.
Trump used his speech to lay out some of his proposed policies — including restoring the economy, securing the border, holding China accountable for COVID, enforcing the Second Amendment, “restoring” freedom of speech, “restoring” free speech, banning “men from women’s sports, and, among other things, banning “child sexual mutilation in all 50 states”.
“This is what we must do to save our country from destruction,” Trump said. “2024 is the final battle.”
He added: “If we don’t take over, we’re out of land.”
Brooke Singman is a digital political reporter for Fox News. You can reach her at Brooke.Singman@Fox.com or @BrookeSingman on Twitter.
