Joe Biden’s official campaign kickoff was a plea for unity against the president, with more of an eye on November 2020 than on next year’s primaries.
“I love that, and the fact that Trump is responding shows that Biden is getting under his skin,” said Angie Johnson, 50 years old.
Some at the rally said part of why they weren’t put off by Biden attacking Trump is because they think the standards of political discourse have changed. Others at the rally drew a distinction between the kinds of attacks the president has been tweeting about Biden and how Biden has been phrasing his criticisms of Trump.
One Biden supporter, John Schock, 68, said he thought Biden could stand to talk a little less about Trump.
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