Jill Biden launched her strongest attack yet against Donald Trump as she kicked off the ‘Women for Biden’ event in Atlanta, Georgia, on Friday.
She went after her husband’s rival over his record on abortion rights, a key issue for Democrats in the 2024 elections.
“Donald Trump is dangerous to women and to our families. We just can’t let him win,” the first lady said to cheers from the crowd.
“He tore us down for a lifetime and devalued our existence. He mocked women’s bodies, disrespected our achievements and bragged about abuse. Now he’s bragging about killing Roe v. Wade,” she said.
Jill Biden kicked off the ‘Women for Biden’ campaign movement in Atlanta
The first lady also pointed to comments Trump made in an interview with Fox News on Thursday in which he indicated he was considering a ban on 15-week abortions.
‘I hear more and more often fifteen weeks and I haven’t made a decision yet. We also brought it back to the states where it belongs,” Trump told Fox’s Sean Hannity.
The former president has taken credit for the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Roe vs. Wade, which sent abortion rights decisions back to the states.
President Joe Biden, Jill Biden and other Democrats are using the abortion issue to unite their bases after it was a successful rallying cry for the party in the 2022 midterm elections, where their candidates performed better than expected, largely thanks to abortion rights issues . mood.
The first lady is taking the lead in the Biden campaign by getting women – an important voting bloc – on her husband’s side.
She was a staunch supporter of the Democrats during the midterm elections and is the leading defender of her husband’s record as president.
She spends her time on the campaign trail describing the human side of Joe Biden. One of her favorite stories to tell is their first date, where Biden showed up in a suit and loafers to take her out.
‘It was the 1970s and that evening a handsome young senator showed up at my door. Remember, the boys wore baggy pants and clogs. Okay, so I’m going to the door. I opened the door. I glanced at his perfect suit and leather loafers. And I said, thank God it’s only one date!’
Jill Biden delivered her strongest attack yet on Donald Trump (above), condemning him for suggesting he supports a 15-week abortion ban
Jill Biden was husband Joe Biden’s biggest defender during the campaign
But she is now raising the stakes as Trump appears to be the likely Republican nominee for the 2024 elections.
‘My husband is the author of the Violence Against Women Act. As I watched him write that bill by hand on stacks of yellow legal paper, and he spent his career raising women,” Jill Biden said.
She compared that to Trump, pointing out that the former president “last night again took credit for allowing states like Georgia to pass cruel abortion bans that deprive women of the right to make their own health care decisions.” How far will he go? When will he stop? You know the answer? He won’t do that.’
“He said it himself last night in his own words. He’s considering a national abortion ban.”
Jill Biden is on a three-day campaign swing to kick off the Women for Biden event. After Georgia, she heads to more battleground states: Arizona, Nevada and Wisconsin.
“Women put Joe Biden in the White House,” she told the cheering crowd in Atlanta. She said she even launched Women for Biden there because “Georgia put us in the White House.”
Joe Biden won the 2020 election in Georgia, becoming the first Democrat since Bill Clinton to hold the state. Trump falsely claims he won the state, but now faces both federal and state charges for his efforts to overturn the election results there.
After her event in Atlanta, Jill Biden stopped by a wine story in Atlanta, where she sampled the goods and bought a bottle of red and a bottle of white.
At the event, Jill Biden praised the young women who attended and said they would vote in their first election this year.
“The first time I ever voted, I voted for my husband Joe. I didn’t even know him and thank God I voted for him,” she joked.