President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump hosted dueling rallies Saturday night in the battleground state of Georgia.
former President Donald Trump was declared the presumptive GOP nominee, setting the stage for a rematch election between himself and President Joe Biden.
Now, the two held dueling events Saturday evening in a battleground state that secured Biden’s victory and a Democratic-controlled Senate in 2020: Georgia.
Trump in Rome, Georgia, and President Biden participating in campaign events in Atlanta as the campaign announced plans to aggressively step up its campaign operations.
As the former president continues to campaign heavily on immigration and border security, he used his appearance in Rome to highlight the recent death of Laken Riley, the nursing student from Georgia who was killed.
At Saturday’s rally, the campaign handed out posters with Riley’s face with the phrases „Remember our angels“ and „Say her name“ on them. Trump met with Riley’s parents before he took the stage, he said during his speech.
Trump criticized Biden for getting Riley’s name wrong during his State of the Union address and for walking back on using the word „illegal. „
„Undocumented person,“ Biden said when his use of the word „illegal“ was raised in an interview with MSNBC. „And I shouldn’t have used ‚illegal.‘ I should’ve – It’s undocumented.“
Trump at the rally on Saturday responded to Biden’s apology saying Biden should apologize for apologizing.
„Now he was illegal, and I say he was an illegal alien,“ Trump said. „He was an illegal migrant. He was an illegal migrant and he shouldn’t have been in our country and he never would have been under the Trump policy.“
Trump also again offered a scathing review of Biden’s State of the Union address at the rally in Rome, calling it an „angry, dark, hate-filled rant“ and mocking his speech, imitating his coughs and stuttering.
„Joe Biden should not be shouting angrily at America,“ Trump said. „America should be shouting angrily at Joe Biden.
