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full screen President Joe Biden on Monday. Photo: Susan Walsh/AP/TT
US President Joe Biden defends his language against Donald Trump but admits after criticism from Republicans that it was a mistake to use one word: “Bullseye”.
– I meant to focus on him. Focus on what he’s doing, focus on his policies, focus on the number of lies he told in the debate, Biden said in a televised interview with NBC.
A group of Republicans has previously criticized Biden for, according to media reports, using the word “bullseye” in a private phone call with donors last week.
– I have a job, and that is to beat Donald Trump. I am absolutely sure that I am the best person to do that. So we have finished talking about the debate. It’s time to put Trump in the “bullseye,” Biden said in the conversation, according to Politico.
Bullseye, the inner circle on a dart board, can also be translated into Swedish as “full hit”.
Biden emphasizes in the television interview, which will be broadcast in its entirety on the night of Tuesday Swedish time, that it is Trump’s normalization of violent rhetoric that is the problem.
– I’m not the guy who said I want to be a dictator on day one, I’m not the guy who refused to accept the election results, Biden said, stressing that the threat to democracy is real.
After the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, Biden has said that it is time to “cool down” the tone of the debate, and emphasized that it is everyone’s responsibility to do so.