Joe Biden delivered his final speech to the US Congress before the presidential election. Seeming to launch his campaign, the president took every opportunity to criticize his main rival: Donald Trump.
Joe Biden was in good shape and determined to do battle with his main rival for the American presidential election who appeared before Congress this Thursday, March 7. For his State of the Union speech, the last before the end-of-year election, the tenant of the White House showed himself ready to go on the campaign trail, despite those who criticize him for his age advance. The 81-year-old man also took pains to respond to criticism assuring that at his age “certain things become clearer than ever”. “I know it doesn’t seem like it, but I’ve been here a long time,” the Democratic candidate for re-election even joked. A speech which, unlike Joe Biden’s previous speeches, was not marked by a new slip of the tongue.
Defending his candidacy for the American presidential election as the best option for the United States, Joe Biden discussed several key subjects of the electoral campaign – the war in Ukraine, that in Gaza, but also the American economy and the defense of the abortion – and took every opportunity to attack Donald Trump, his positions and his ideas. The American president also referred criticism of his old age to the Republican millionaire, calling him “a man of his age”. The two candidates are actually only four years apart, aged 81 and 77 respectively.
Trump “submitted” to Putin?
Offensive, Joe Biden accused his Republican rival, without naming him, of “submitting” to Vladimir Putin in the middle of the war in Ukraine even though American freedom and democracy are “under attack” according to him. “My predecessor, a former Republican president, told Putin ‘do what you want.’ That’s a quote, a former president actually said that, submitting to a Russian leader. I think it’s outrageous. C “It’s dangerous, and it’s unacceptable!”, the Democrat said to Congress.
But there is no point in criticizing if it is not to then show off. And after pinning down Donald Trump, Joe Biden assured that he “would not bend[a] not” in the face of his Russian counterpart. The State of the Union speech was also an opportunity to demand that Congress vote in favor of sending aid to Ukraine to “stop Putin “.
Trump or an America of “resentment, vengeance and revenge”
Joe Biden focused on international subjects, but also national policies during his speech. Touting his economic record which saw “the greatest rebound” in the history of the United States after the Covid-19 pandemic according to him, he pointed to that of his predecessor saying he had “inherited an economy which was on the brink from the abyss” after the mandate of Donald Trump. The Democrat also praised the “record” of “15 million jobs created in three years” and “the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years”.
Important point of the presidential campaign but failure of Joe Biden during his mandate, the removal of the federal guarantee of abortion was cited by Joe Biden. The octogenarian promised to “restore” the protection of abortion if Americans and especially American women elect a Congress favorable to the “right to choose”. Donald Trump’s Republican camp being at the origin of this suppression, the president estimated that “those who boast of having annulled the federal protection of the right to abortion by the Supreme Court have no idea of the power of women in America” but “they will realize it again in 2024”.
The list of direct or indirect attacks made against Donald Trump ended with a point on the migration policy of the United States. “I will not demonize migrants by saying that they are poisoning the blood of our country” guaranteed Joe Biden, not without referring to recent statements by Donald Trump who had initiated the construction of a wall between the United States and Mexico during his mandate. Facing Congress, still pointing out the Republicans’ position, he said: “We can argue about the border or we can resolve the problem.” Joe Biden therefore did not spare his rival who is, according to him, the symbol of “an America turned towards resentment, vengeance and revenge”.