Joe Biden on President Trump's comments toward him Wednesday: 'He should get a life.'
Former Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday excoriated President Donald Trump for a “toxic tongue” that he said has inflamed the nation’s divisions, saying that he lacked the moral authority to lead America.
Biden has long framed the 2020 election as a battle for the “soul of the nation,” a point he underscored again Wednesday. Biden said America has always been a nation in struggle between the ideals of its founding documents but the stain of slavery, racism and injustice. But time and time again, presidents have “stood against hate at moments when we were most tested.”
Biden’s remarks at an event in Burlington, Iowa, came as Trump visited El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, where another mass shooting occurred on Sunday. Twenty-two were killed in Saturday’s massacre at an El Paso Walmart and nearby shopping area by a gunman who allegedly had driven across Texas to target the largely Hispanic community, a senior law enforcement official told NBC News.
Warning that"people’s very lives are in the balance," Booker said that"we can't let these conversations devolve into the impotent simplicity of who is or isn't a racist, because if the answer to the question, ‘Do racism and white supremacy exist?’ is yes, then the real question isn't who is or isn't a racist, but who is and isn't doing something about it," according to excerpts provided to NBC News.
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