Biden's 'Retaliation' to Spoil Trump's Speech

"Using the White House as a Prop"
Announcement to Resume Mass Rallies on the 7th of Next Month

[Asia Economy New York=Correspondent Baek Jong-min] Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential candidate in the United States, fiercely criticized President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, saying he is "using the White House as a prop."

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is showcasing his health by riding a bicycle in a commercial. (YouTube capture)

On the last day of the Democratic National Convention on the 20th, President Trump scattered ashes around his acceptance speech, and Biden retaliated a week later.

On the 27th (local time), Biden, along with his vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris, launched a preemptive attack on President Trump, who was preparing his acceptance speech at the White House.

In an interview with MSNBC that day, Biden targeted Trump's White House speech, saying, "The White House has become a prop," and asked rhetorically, "Can you imagine what would have happened if Barack Obama had done something like this while running for re-election, or if I had done it on the White House lawn or in the Rose Garden?"

Biden then counterattacked by referring to Vice President Mike Pence's acceptance speech the previous day, in which Pence mentioned that "it would not be safe in Joe Biden's America," saying, "Our problem right now lies within Donald Trump's America."

Senator Harris also raised the intensity of her attacks on Trump during her first solo speech in Washington DC since being nominated as the vice-presidential candidate. She said, "Donald Trump is frozen and scared. He is petty, vindictive, obsessed with the stock market, and has bowed to the Chinese government."

Biden also announced plans to launch full-scale offline campaigning centered on key battleground states around Labor Day on September 7. Although he had rarely conducted in-person campaigns due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it seems he felt the need to increase face-to-face contact with just over two months left until the election.

In particular, it is also evaluated that the Republican National Convention's combination of offline events served as a stimulus. The Biden campaign released a "counter" advertisement timed with President Trump's speech. The ad compared Biden energetically leaping up at the U.S. Military Academy graduation ceremony with Trump awkwardly walking down. Biden also called Trump a dictator and a totalitarian.

The advertisement sought to differentiate Biden from the Republican candidate by showing Biden alongside the late John Lewis, a pioneer of the Black civil rights movement who was a fierce opponent of Trump, and scenes from Lewis's funeral, which Biden attended. This advertisement was broadcast on major terrestrial TV channels in sync with President Trump's speech.

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