President Joe Biden hammered former President Donald Trump on the Republican’s threats to cut Social Security and Medicare in his first speech since both candidates won their parties’ nominations.
On Tuesday, voters in the Northern Mariana Islands and Georgia put Biden over the edge, with the president collecting enough delegates in the presidential primaries to be considered the presumptive Democratic nominee.
Hours later, Trump was officially the Republican’s presumptive nominee, benefiting from strong support in the states of Georgia, Mississippi and Washington.
“Just this week, Donald Trump said cuts to Social Security and Medicare are on the table,” Biden said in a speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Wednesday. ‘When asked if he had changed his position, he said: ‘There’s a lot we can do in terms of cuts, there’s a huge amount of things we can do.’
“I want to assure you that I will never let this happen,” Biden added.
President Joe Biden hammered former President Donald Trump over the Republican’s threats to cut Social Security and Medicare in his first speech since both candidates secured their parties’ nominations on Wednesday in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Former President Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee on Tuesday evening after winning contests in the states of Georgia, Mississippi and Washington. He said cutting duties was on the table in a recent interview with CNBC
Trump made the comments reducing rights to CNBC.
The president’s itinerary this week includes a tour of swing states.
He traveled to Manchester, New Hampshire on Monday and made the trip to Milwaukee on Wednesday.
He leaves for Michigan on Thursday.
According to the American newspaper, Trump is currently one point ahead in Wisconsin Polling average from RealClearPoliticsand with four points in Michigan.
Milwaukee will host the Republican National Convention this summer — where Trump will officially become the nominee.
It was chosen in part because Democrats were scheduled to hold the 2020 Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee but held a small-scale, socially distanced affair in Biden’s adopted hometown of Wilmington, Delaware due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday visited his Wisconsin re-election campaign headquarters in Milwaukee, the city that will serve as the backdrop for this summer’s Republican National Convention after Democrats abandoned it in 2020 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
In turn, Biden chose the city – which is 40 percent black – as the place to open his state’s campaign headquarters, instead of the state capital of Madison, which has a large student population.
Milwaukee also has a high number of suburban Hispanic voters and independent voters — groups that could decide the presidential election.
In his speech, which lasted less than 20 minutes, Biden talked about how highways were cutting through predominantly Black neighborhoods in Milwaukee, similar to what happened in Wilmington.
“But instead of connecting communities, it divided them; these highways basically tore them apart,” the president said.
He spoke of “redlining” — the practice of denying services to majority-minority neighborhoods — and “urban renewal,” which has devastated black neighborhoods across the country.
For generations, Black, Brown, and Native American, Asian American, and Native Hawaiian communities were not fully included in our democracy or our economy. But through sheer courage, heart and perseverance, they never gave up, pursuing the full promise of America,” Biden said.
‘Today we acknowledge that history to make new history. “I’m here to announce the first investment of its kind: $3.3 billion, $3.3 billion in 132 in 42 states to right historic wrongs,” the President announced.
Biden’s reelection pitch to voters in these communities was that he was slowly making things better.
“Folks, we are on our way to bringing clean water to every American. “We are on a path to bringing affordable high-speed internet to every American at a low cost,” he said.
‘We are busy rebuilding communities that are too often left behind. We repair the roads, we fill the cracks in the sidewalks, we create spaces to live, work and play safely. And to breathe clean air and shop at a nearby supermarket full of fresh and healthy food,” the president added.