Biden resumes campaign against Trump after assassination attempt

Photo: Kent Nishimura Agence France-Presse At a rally in Las Vegas, President Joe Biden blasted former President Donald Trump's record in office, resuming his barbs after holding back for a few days.

Danny Kemp – Agence France-Presse respectively in Las Vegas and Washington

Published yesterday at 10:35 p.m.

• United States

Back on the campaign trail for his first rally since the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, Joe Biden on Tuesday in Las Vegas lambasted his rival's record and remarks while reiterating his calls for calm in the country.

At a rally organized by the country's leading civil rights association, the 81-year-old Democratic president called for a lower temperature in an America on edge and a ban on the type of weapon used against Donald Trump on Saturday.

“Help me rid the streets of America of these weapons of war. An AR-15 was used in the shootings against Donald Trump… It's time to suppress them,” said the American president.

He said he was “relieved » that his Republican rival, injured in the ear, is fine after the shootings that occurred during one of his rallies in Pennsylvania.

Joe Biden, however, castigated the assessment of the former president's mandate, a “hell for African-Americans”, thus resuming his barbs after holding back his blows for a few days.

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He criticized the mention of “black jobs” by Donald Trump during their debate at the end of June, during which the president himself delivered a poor performance, often struggling to express himself clearly.

“I know what a black job is, it’s that of vice-president of the United States,” Biden retorted, referring to Vice-President Kamala Harris, the first African-American in this position.

“Full of energy”

After this disastrous debate, calls from Democrats to withdraw the president from the race for the White House have multiplied. The assassination attempt on Donald Trump offered him a small reprieve that his team is trying to take advantage of.

Democrats are now trying to speed up his nomination, preferably before the Democratic convention in August, despite calls to postpone it and persistent tensions in the Democratic camp.

“It is our duty as a campaign team to do everything to get President Biden on the ballot,” Quentin Fulks, an executive on the Democrat’s team, said at a press conference in Milwaukee.

< p>At the rally in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Joe Biden supporters appeared determined.

“I found the president really full of energy,” Donna said Jackson-Houston, a member of the civil rights group NAACP.

She admitted that she and “many others had doubts” about the age of the Democrat and his debate gaffes, but that he had done “a good job today convincing me.”

Tony Fields of New Jersey , also praised a “very insightful” speech and judged that the debate had only been “a bad evening” for the president.

On the attempt to assassination, Joe Biden admitted Monday to having made a “mistake” by calling for “targeting” Donald Trump during an event with donors, just days before the attack on him.

“I wanted to say, focus on him, on what he's doing,” the Democrat said in an interview with NBC.

But he doesn't did not, however, deny the substance of his remarks, which is to present the former guest of the White House as a danger to American democracy.