As Biden visited Belgrade, some 300 ultra-nationalists protested his presence by wearing T-shirts displaying Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump and chanting “Vote for Trump!”
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“I said in Philadelphia that a man you can bait with a Tweet is not a man you can trust with nuclear weapons. Yesterday, the head of Hezbollah, a terrorist organization, Iran’s top terrorist surrogate, and a direct threat to our ally Israel, repeated Trump’s claim in the entire Muslim world and – I mean, around the world, that President Obama founded ISIS”, he said.
Mrs. Clinton’s campaign stop also drew a handful of protesters supporting Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
Scranton, where Biden lived until he was in grade school, is filled with people defined by “grit, courage and determination to never, ever give up”, the vice president said.
As for his endorsement of the former secretary of state, it was simple and straightforward, and yet it carried just a hint of the pair’s past frictions.
“Someone who lacks this judgement can not be trusted, there’s a guy that follows me, right back here, has the nuclear codes”, Biden said.
He once again called for a temporary ban on Muslims immigrating to the United States, adding that he would suspend immigration from “the most risky and volatile regions of the world” that export terrorism.
“When Joe and I were deciding where to have our first campaign rally, there really was only one answer”.
Biden passed on a run for the White House past year but is reprising a familiar role as a Democratic ambassador to the middle class and serving as the determined critic of Donald Trump. If Trump had been president, Biden says he would have urged his late son, Beau, not to serve in the military because Trump would not be a trustworthy leader.
“Someone who lacks this judgement can not be trusted … with the nuclear code”, Biden said, noting that any president may have to make split second decisions on whether to launch a nuclear attack.
The former longtime senator instead accepted President Obama’s invitation to lead a pubic-private “moonshot” effort to speed up the development of a cure for cancer.
Gail Shoffner, 63, also made the 45 minute trip to Scranton from Monroe County to see Clinton and Biden.
“If I’m elected this fall, I’m going to ask Joe to continue the important work he’s begun”, she said.
Back then, at least one poll had Trump ahead in Pennsylvania by 2 percentage points.
At a rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Monday, Clinton noted that Trump had said he offered care at his businesses.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Vice-President Joe Biden are welcomed to Scranton by a crowd of about 3,000.
When it comes to global affairs, the vice president made sure his role on the world stage was not overlooked Monday.
“You know better than I do what a great governor he is of your state, what he’s done for your state, how he’s improved it and helped it”. “Someone who inherits a million and makes $20 million, no, they’re not a bum, but they’re a mere success”.
Joe Biden worked Monday to convince blue-collar and middle-class voters here that Donald Trump is their enemy, not their friend and champion.
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“Even if he were joking – which he isn’t”, Biden continued, responding to Trump’s pattern of making controversial statements then later responding they were sarcastic or taken out of context, “what an outrageous thing to say”.
