Joe Biden is ready to stand up. Before a dedicated public, the president of the United States has shown himself determined to continue running for re-election despite calls for him to reconsider after his disastrous performance in Thursday’s debate against Republican Donald Trump. Biden reappeared this Friday at a rally in Raleigh (North Carolina), a state where he lost against Trump in 2020, but not by an excessive margin. “I’m here because I want to win the elections in November and if we win in North Carolina we win the elections,” he said, trying to adopt an energetic tone. “I know that I am not a young man, to state the obvious,” he admitted. “I don’t speak as fluently as I used to. I don’t debate as well as I used to. But I know what I know: I know how to tell the truth, I know how to do this job, I know how to get things done.”
“It is difficult to debate with a liar,” he had justified himself the day before. More than his problems in refuting the lies of Trump, who emerged victorious from the debate with his apocalyptic and demagogic messages, his problem was that he was shipwrecked in a tidal wave of lapses, hesitations and incomplete sentences. He coughed frequently, his voice was shaken and he could not shake a certain hoarseness throughout the debate, apparently due to a cold. This Friday he appeared in apparently better shape, although still with some cough.
Between shouts of “four more years” from his followers and reading the speech on the screen, he harshly attacked Trump. She has assured that Trump “broke the record for lies in a debate” and has repeated that his rival, as he told her to her face on Thursday, has “the morals of a stray cat.”
“Lock him up.”
The audience was enthralled. “The only convicted felon on stage yesterday was Donald Trump,” he added, as the audience shouted: “Lock him up!” – a rallying cry of Trump supporters calling for Hillary Clinton to be put in prison.
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Biden has once again presented his predecessor as a threat to democracy, the economy and the future of the country, some of his usual arguments. His intervention was short and direct, much more effective than his performance in Thursday’s debate. “The choice in this election is simple: Donald Trump will destroy our democracy. “I will defend her,” she stated.
The first lady, Jill Biden, whom some are asking to convince her husband to throw in the towel, also participated in the rally, wearing a black dress on which it was repeated in white letters: “Vote.” She has assured that “right now” she is the most appropriate person for the position. “What you saw yesterday in the debate is his integrity and character. “She told the truth, while Trump told lie after lie after lie,” she said minutes before the president appeared on the scene.
Biden’s campaign billed the Raleigh event as the biggest rally of his re-election bid in the state Trump won by the narrowest margin in 2020. He will then travel to New York for a weekend of fundraising that his campaign needs now more than ever.
Biden’s campaign announced it raised $14 million (€13 million) on the day of the debate and the morning after, while Trump’s campaign said it raised more than $8 million from the start of the debate until the end of the night.
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