President Joe Biden unleashed on Donald Trump at a fundraiser in Nevada on Sunday, signaling that he is considering punching his Republican rival and noting that he needs to “keep his Irish temper” around him.
The warring words came as Biden spoke about Trump’s reported comments that fallen American soldiers were “suckers” and “losers,” and he became angry when he brought up his late son Beau, who served in the Delaware National Guard in Iraq, before he died in 2015. .
‘I have to keep my Irish temper in check. I’m glad I wasn’t with him. I’m not sure what I would have done. He said they’re all suckers and losers,” Biden said of Trump.
Biden then raised his voice and sounded angry as he referred to his late son: “My son wasn’t a loser, and neither is yours. Who does this guy think he’s talking about Americans?’
President Joe Biden arrived in Las Vegas on Sunday afternoon
The president was speaking to a small group of wealthy donors in Henderson, Nevada, about 30 minutes outside Las Vegas, when he delivered his combative words.
He has become more forceful in recent weeks when talking about Trump. And Sunday’s speech included a more personal side for Biden, about his late son.
His words also indicated what he thinks of Trump as reports emerged of Biden calling the former president a “sick bastard” in conversations with his closest aides and old friends, Politico reported.
Biden specifically referred Sunday to a time in 2018, when Trump was president and reportedly didn’t want to visit a cemetery near Paris for Americans who fought and died in World War I because it was full of “suckers” and “losers.” claimed his then chief of staff. Trump has denied that.
In his forceful and animated remarks at Sunday’s fundraiser, Biden repeated his accusations that Trump is a threat to democracy.
He also called Trump “Donald Hoover Trump” (a reference to Herbert Hoover) and attacked his record on jobs, as well as Trump’s comments hoping for a recession while Biden was still in office.
“It sounds unbelievable, un-American, that a former president seeking office would hope for a recession,” Biden said.
The Biden campaign sees Trump, who is leading the polls for the Republican nomination, as their rival in the 2024 general election, creating a grudge between the two men.
Polls show that the rematch is statically tied and many other studies show that voters would like an alternative choice for both men.
Biden was in Nevada to court Black voters as polls show his support among that community is declining.
He met with black leaders and held an election rally in a traditionally black neighborhood outside Vegas’ famed strip, according to his campaign.
Then-President Donald Trump at the Suresnes American Cemetery, outside Paris, on November 11, 2018
Courting Black voters has been the theme of Biden’s three-day trip to the West Coast.
The president was in Los Angeles on Saturday night to court the same voting bloc, where he met with black entertainment leaders who were in town for the Grammys.
Biden’s stop in Nevada comes as the state completes early voting for the presidential primaries. Election day for the primaries is Tuesday, February 6. The president last visited Nevada in December.
Biden will face only token opposition in the Nevada primaries, just as he faced on Saturday in the South Carolina primaries, where he won with 97% of the vote.
He visited the historic Westside, an area northwest of the Las Vegas casino strip where black Americans founded their own casinos and clubs about 100 years ago due to segregation.
Biden narrowly defeated Trump in Nevada by 33,596 votes, or less than 3%, in 2020, and polls show that a rematch between the two men, which seems likely in 2024, would be just as close.
Tuesday’s Republican and Democratic primaries also give voters the option to vote for “None of these candidates.”
The president has abused his strong position at the top of the Democratic party to shore up support in states and voting blocs that will be crucial to his reelection.
That includes those all-important black voters. It was Black voters in South Carolina who saved Biden’s bid for the presidency in 2020, giving him a huge win in those primaries that propelled him to the nomination.
On Saturday night in Los Angeles, the president stopped by George Lucas’s $32 million Bel Air mansion to woo Democratic supporters who were in town for the Grammys.
Biden arrived in Los Angeles on Saturday afternoon and headed straight to the 9,000-square-foot, 9-bedroom, 8-bath home in a private, gated community. Jill Biden, who traveled to the West Coast with her husband, left to go to her own event with supporters.
Biden reportedly met with black entertainment leaders. Lucas’ wife Mellody Hobson is the CEO of Ariel Investments and the chairman of Starbucks Corporation. She is the former chairman of DreamWorks Animation.
The president’s meeting comes as polls show the president’s support among black voters waning and Donald Trump appears to be finalizing the Republican presidential nomination.
And it comes after the The United States and Britain hit 36 Houthi targets in Yemen on Saturday in a second wave of targeted attacks to further eliminate Iranian-backed proxy militias.
President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden are greeted by (from left) Senator Alex Padilla, his son Diego Cruz Padilla and Representative Maxine Waters after arriving in Los Angeles
President Biden meets with entertainment leaders at the Bel Air home of George Lucas and Mellody Hobson (see above in 2016)
Biden is on a three-day trip to the West Coast focused on his re-election bid. It’s his third round of political visits this week: On Tuesday he was in Florida for fundraising and on Thursday he went to Detroit to speak to auto union workers.
Many of the attendees for his Los Angeles rally were in town for Sunday’s Grammy ceremony.
The Biden campaign debuted a campaign ad at the Grammys that will focus on Biden’s support for abortion rights, which Democrats are raising as a major issue in the 2024 election.
The Bidens did not attend the music awards ceremony — although Jill Biden did attend last year — but spoke with industry leaders about the issues at stake in the election and how they can use their platforms to to mobilize voters, Deadline reported.
Lucas, the creator of the Star Wars franchise, and Hobson bought the house in 2017 from a company linked to Texas billionaire oilman Ross Perot. They paid $33.9 million for the house, which was built in 1929. It features a swimming pool, fountains and a putting green.
Hobson’s name was in the running for treasury secretary at one point, when some black lawmakers wanted an African-American candidate. Biden ultimately nominated Janet Yellen. Hobson, a black billionaire businesswoman, donated to Biden’s 2020 campaign.
Biden’s declining support among black voters is one of many red flags being waved by Democrats as polls show a Trump-Biden rematch in 2024 is essentially a draw.
After Trump won the New Hampshire primary, the Biden campaign declared that he had essentially blocked the Republican nomination and focused their firepower on the former president.
Some Democrats fear Biden is not being tough enough on his Republican nemesis as his campaign focuses on hiring — especially in key states — and boosting its massive campaign coffers.
Key White House staffers — including Jen O’Malley Dillon, Mitch Landrieu and Mike Donilon — have moved on to the campaign. O’Malley Dillon was the campaign manager for Biden’s successful 2020 run.
Biden raised more than $97 million for his re-election campaign in the last three months of last year.
Trump, meanwhile, is hemorrhaging money from his PAC in the form of legal fees.
Donald Trump’s Save America Leadership PAC and the Make America Great Again PAC spent $56 million on legal fees last year, a figure that includes $30 million in the last half of the year.
The president still has vulnerabilities that worry loyalists. In addition to his age – at 81 years old he is the oldest American ever elected president – a USA TODAY/Suffolk University survey last month showed he has the support of just 63% of black voters, a group he carried by as many as 87% in 2020.
Biden has stepped up his efforts, including making trips to South Carolina, where Black voters gave him his first primary victory in the 2020 election. He easily won Saturday’s Democratic primary with 97% of the vote, but faced only token opposition.