President Joe Biden hammered former President Donald Trump on threats the Republican made to cut Social Security and Medicare in his first speech since both candidates accepted their parties’ nominations.
On Tuesday, voters in the Northern Mariana Islands and Georgia put Biden over the line, with the president amassing enough delegates in the presidential primary to be considered the presumptive Democratic nominee.
Hours later, Trump was officially the Republican presumptive nominee, enjoying strong support in the states of Georgia, Mississippi and Washington.
“Just this week, Donald Trump said cuts to Social Security and Medicare are on the table,” Biden said Wednesday in a speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. ‘When asked if he changed his mind, he said, “there’s a lot we can do in terms of cutting, a huge amount of things we can do.”
“I want to assure you that I will never allow that to happen,” Biden added.
President Joe Biden hammered former President Donald Trump on threats the Republican made to cut Social Security and Medicare in his first speech since both candidates clinched their party’s nominations Wednesday in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Former President Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee on Tuesday night after winning contests in Georgia, Mississippi and Washington state. He said cutting entitlements was on the table in a recent interview with CNBC
Trump made the comments regarding cut the rights to CNBC.
The president’s itinerary this week is a tour of swing states.
On Monday he traveled to Manchester, New Hampshire and then made the Milwaukee trip on Wednesday.
On Thursday he goes to Michigan.
Currently, Trump leads by one point in Wisconsin, according to RealClearPolitics polling averageand off four points in Michigan.
Milwaukee will host this summer’s Republican National Convention — where Trump will officially become the nominee.
It was chosen in part because Democrats were to hold the 2020 Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee, but held a scaled-down, socially distanced affair in Biden’s adopted hometown of Wilmington, Delaware due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
President Joe Biden visited his Wisconsin re-election campaign headquarters on Wednesday in Milwaukee, the city that will serve as the backdrop for this summer’s Republican National Convention after Democrats called it quits in 2020 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
In return, Biden chose the city — which is 40 percent black — as the site to open his state campaign headquarters over the college-heavy state capital of Madison.
Milwaukee also has a high level of Hispanic voters and suburban independents — groups that can decide presidential elections.
In his speech, which was less than 20 minutes long, Biden talked about how freeways cut through predominantly black neighborhoods in Milwaukee, similar to what happened in Wilmington.
“But instead of connecting communities, it divided them, these highways actually tore them apart,” the president said.
He spoke of ‘redlining’ – the practice of withholding services from majority-minority neighborhoods – and ‘urban renewal’, which saw the destruction of black neighborhoods around the nation.
“For generations, blacks, browns, and Native Americans, Asian-Americans, and Native Hawaiians were not fully included in our democracy or our economy. But out of sheer, guts, heart, and courage, they never gave up, they pursued the full promise of America,’ Biden said.
‘Today we recognize that history in order to create new history. I’m here to announce a first-of-its-kind investment — $3.3 billion, $3.3 billion in 132 in 42 states to help right historical wrongs,” the president announced.
Biden’s re-election pitch to voters in these communities was that he was slowly making things better.
– Folks, we are on our way to providing clean water to all Americans. We’re on track to provide affordable, high-speed Internet to every American at low cost,” he said.
‘To communities that are too often left behind, we rebuild. We rebuild the roads, we fill the cracks in the pavement, we create spaces to live and work and play safely. And to breathe clean air and to shop at a nearby grocery store full of fresh and healthy food,” the president added.