Vice President Joe Biden went on the offensive against Donald Trump, criticizing his reality TV show catchphrase “You’re Fired”, saying he has “no clue” in his speech on Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
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US Vice President Joe Biden accused Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump of being an opportunist who had no clue about how to make America great.
The vice president gave Trump one distinction: “No major-party nominee in the history of this nation has ever known less or has been less prepared to deal with our national security”.
Vice President Joe Biden says he thinks Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn’t want Hillary Clinton to become president.
Biden was introduced by his wife, Jill, and with a six-minute video that summed up his four-decades-plus political career as a congressman, senator and vice president.
Biden also had harsh words for Donald Trump.
“Tonight he reminded us that we can’t be limited by our cynicism and bound to a leader so out of touch with the stresses of being middle class as to build a brand based off of firing people”, said Andrew Wilson, a state Democratic Party member.
“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing”, Trump told reporters. Biden highlighted his relationship with President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.
The president made the comments in a taped interview aired Wednesday.
But Trump got a boost in opinion polls from his convention. “There is a path to the White House for the Democratic Party”. Democrats have little noted the threat of terrorism or the Islamic State group, though both were expected to be more relevant in Wednesday’s program. “He’s playing directly into the hands of a guy who says his overarching goal with Putin is to break up North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and to fracture Europe, makes him stronger”, Biden alleged.
A son of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Biden appealed directly to the working class white voters who have been drawn to Trump’s populism, warning them against falling for false promises and exploitation of Americans’ anxieties.
President Bill Clinton, filling the role of devoted political spouse, joined the crowd packed to the arena rafters in cheering the attacks on Trump. Former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley, who failed in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, said “It’s time to put a bully racist in his place, and a tough woman in hers, the White House”.
During the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, many Sanders supporters have protested and chanted slogans such as, “lock her up”.
Liberals, particularly those who supported Vermont Sen.
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A focus on gun violence: The principal of Sandy Hook Elementary School speaks Wednesday night, as do two victims of the shooting at a Charleston, S.C., church a year ago.
