US President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump spoke yesterday at campaign rallies in the US state of Georgia, which is emerging as a strategic territory in their race for the highest office in the country in the elections on November 5 this year, Reuters reported, noting, that the two contenders from the Democratic and Republican parties have called each other a “threat to democracy.”
The Associated Press points out that both Biden and Trump have warned that “there will be dire consequences for the country” if the other enters the White House for a second presidential term in his political career.
It was the first time this year that opponents campaigned in the same state at the same time.
Trump said once again that Democrats have turned the “Biden government into their weapon,” referring to the series of lawsuits filed against him, according to Reuters.
In turn, the current president attacked his rival on the occasion of his meeting in Florida with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. “When he (Trump) says he wants to be a dictator, I believe him,” Biden said.
Trump is on course to win his party’s presidential nomination outright on Tuesday, when Republicans go to the polls in the state of Georgia, as well as in the states of Mississippi and Washington. At a Biden campaign rally, a protester was led away by police after loudly calling the president “genocide Joe.”
The head of state won the support of Georgia in the 2020 general presidential election.
“Biden can’t beat me here again if the young, black, Muslim, Arab-American, Jewish and others who supported him last time decide to stay home or vote for a third candidate,” Edward Ahmed Mitchell told Reuters. spokesperson for the Listen Georgia Coalition.
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