Open full screen Donald Trump addresses his supporters at a party meeting Saturday March 16 in Vandalia, Ohio, four days after securing the Republican nomination. Agence France-Presse Former President Donald Trump, Republican candidate in the US election in November, presented this election as a turning point in the country's history, evoking a “butchery” for the US economy. United States if he was not elected against the Democratic incumbent Joe Biden. November 5 will be the most important date in our country's history, Donald Trump said at a party meeting Saturday in Vandalia, Ohio, four days after his election. be assured of the Republican nomination, as President Joe Biden did in the Democratic camp. Describing his victory in the Republican primary as the fastest ever, he noted that it also meant a wait of more than seven months before the rematch of the 2020 election. It's an eternity when you have incompetent people at the head of the country and leading it to ruin, he said. Criticizing what he described as Chinese plans to build cars in Mexico and sell them to Americans, he said he wanted to impose a 100 percent tariff on every vehicle that leaves the factory . Consult the complete file View full file FollowFollow These cars will be unsaleable if I am elected, he added, estimating on the contrary that the threats weighing on the American automobile industry would be the least of the United States' concerns in the event of Joe Biden's reappointment. If I am not elected, it will be a butchery for the country, said Donald Trump, seeming to evoke a deterioration of the economic situation in this hypothesis.
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US President Joe Biden. (Archive photo)
President Biden's campaign team reacted to these ambiguous remarks widely commented on social networks with a press release calling Donald Trump the loser of the 2020 presidential election, who is doubling down on his threats of political violence.
He wants another January 6, Joe Biden's team said, referring to the attack on the Capitol by Donald Trump supporters in 2021, but the Americans will inflict another electoral defeat on him in November because they continue to reject his extremism, his taste for violence, and his thirst for revenge.
Mr. Biden then spoke directly during a dinner in Washington, where he also warned of an unprecedented moment in history.
Freedom is under attack […] The lies about the 2020 election, the plot to challenge it and join the #x27;January 6 insurrection poses the greatest threat to our democracy since the Civil War, he said. In 2020, they failed, but […] the threat remains, he added.
The Democratic president also humorously swept away the concerns about his age. One of the candidates is too old and mentally unfit to be president, he said. The other one is me.
The advanced age of the two candidates for the November presidential election – 81 years for Joe Biden and 77 for Donald Trump – is a recurring subject of the campaign, which promises to be particularly acrimonious, with cross attacks on the physical fitness and cognitive abilities of the contenders for the White House.