President Joe Biden traveled to the other Wilmington on Thursday, the one in North Carolina, and criticized Republicans for not supporting his stimulus and infrastructure bills, which he said brought clean water to the state.
“In fact, your Senator Ted Budd called the infrastructure bill part of ‘a socialist agenda,'” Biden said. “I don’t know about you, but I don’t think ensuring kids can drink clean water to prevent brain damage is a socialist agenda.” “.
“I think it’s pure decency,” Biden added.
North Carolina could be a key state in the November election, as former President Donald Trump barely eked out a victory there in 2020.
Now, a controversial Republican gubernatorial candidate could appeal to Democratic voters.
President Joe Biden traveled to the other Wilmington on Thursday, the one in North Carolina, and criticized Republicans for not supporting his stimulus and infrastructure bills, which he said brought clean water to the state.
Biden slapped North Carolina Sen. Ted Budd and former President Donald Trump during a day trip to North Carolina on Thursday. She mocked Trump for never being able to get an infrastructure bill passed.
Biden slapped Trump, referring to him as his “predecessor,” as he has done before.
The president spoke gleefully of the many times Trump tried to hold an “infrastructure week,” only for some sort of scandal to occur.
“He didn’t build anything,” Biden said.
“At the same time, he and his MAGA allies in Congress were happy to deliver a $2 trillion tax cut that benefited the super-rich and the largest corporations, while exploding the federal debt,” added the president.
Biden’s comments at the end of the day came after he diverted his original plan to come to Wilmington and stop in Charlotte, to meet with the families of the four police officers who were shot and killed earlier this week.
They were: Sam Poloche and William Elliott of the North Carolina Department of Adult Corrections; Charlotte-Mecklenburg Officer Joshua Eyer; and Deputy United States Marshal Thomas Weeks.
“The entire nation is grieving with these families,” Biden told the crowd in Wilmington.
President Joe Biden greets Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Chief Johnny Jennings as he arrives on Air Force One at Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Biden met with families of law enforcement officers shot and killed on the job
Actor Ralph Fiennes (second from right) watches the departure of Marine One on Thursday from the White House. The actor, known for his portrayal of Voldemort in the Harry Potter series, is in Washington performing Macbeth at the DC-based Shakespeare Theater Company.
His meetings with family members were private.
They took place in North Carolina Air National Guard Base, instead of downtown Charlotte, so there will be a smaller police footprint because the entire community will be affected.
Biden’s trip to North Carolina came after he finally addressed pro-Palestinian unrest on college campuses.
The president spoke for less than four minutes Thursday, saying he supported nonviolent protests but suggesting that campus protesters were causing “chaos.”
‘Destroying property is not a peaceful protest. It’s against the law,’ he said Thursday from the Roosevelt Room. ‘Vandalism, breaking and entering, breaking windows and closing campus, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations. “None of this is a peaceful protest.”
“There is a right to protest,” he continued. “But not the right to cause chaos.”
As he left, he told reporters that he did not want to see the National Guard deployed on university campuses.
He also said that the protests at universities did not influence his thinking on Middle East policies.
And as he left the White House on Thursday, actor Ralph Fiennes was seen in the crowd watching Marine One take off.
Fiennes stars in Macbeth at the DC-based Shakespeare Theater Company.
