The president of the United States, Joe Biden, expressed strong criticism this Tuesday of former president Donald Trump, who emerges as a possible Republican candidate after his solid results in the Super Tuesday primaries.
Biden affirmed that Trump is “determined to destroy” the country’s democracy and eliminate fundamental rights, such as the ability of women to make decisions about their health, the Efe news agency published.
“Tonight’s results leave the American people in a clear situation: are we going to continue moving forward or will we allow Donald Trump to drag us into the chaos, division and darkness that defined his mandate?” said the Democratic president.
Biden’s message came in the middle of the primaries, in which 15 of the country’s 50 states participated. These elections are shaping the race towards the presidential elections in November, with Biden and Trump as the leading Democratic and Republican contenders, respectively.
At the same time, Biden said that the millions of people who voted for him in the Democratic primaries “made their voices heard, showing that they are ready to fight against Donald Trump’s extremist plan.”
“To all Democrats, Republicans and independents who believe in a free and fair America: this is our moment. This is our fight. Together we will win,” he concluded.
In the United States, 15 of the 50 states voted on the so-called Super Tuesday, the day on which the most delegates are distributed for the Democratic and Republican Party conventions, in which the presidential candidates for the November elections will be defined.
As usually happens with sitting presidents, Biden saw his candidacy for re-election strengthened without Democratic rivals to overshadow him. But Trump also consolidated his path to the Republican nomination with very good results and a poor performance by his only rival in the party, Nikki Haley.
The president did not appear in public to assess the results, but the White House had already announced that he would be informed minute by minute of the results of the day.
Donald Trump: They are “conclusive results”
In a speech delivered from his mansion at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, the former US president stated that the results of the Republican primaries held in fifteen states are “conclusive” and underline his position as the strongest Republican candidate.
“They call it ‘Super Tuesday’ for a reason and it’s been big. There has never been such a conclusive result. “It has been an incredible day and night,” Trump declared, quoted by the Efe news agency.
Of the 15 states in competition, Donald Trump has secured victory in Texas, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Colorado, Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, Maine, Oklahoma, California, Tennessee and Arkansas.
Meanwhile, the former governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley, his only competitor, disputes his victory in Vermont. The results for Utah and Alaska remain to be known.
In his characteristic style, Trump addressed issues such as immigration and expressed his position in favor of secure borders. “They want open borders and open borders are going to destroy our country. We need borders and we need free and fair elections,” he emphasized.
The former president also criticized his Democratic rival, Joe Biden. He alleged that during his term the United States has suffered a “big beating.” “Our country has been sad,” Trump said.
He also used the occasion to address his own legal problems and presented himself as the victim of a “witch hunt” by the Biden administration. “We have a country in which a politician uses weapons against his political opponent, it never happened here. It happens in other countries, but they are from the third world,” he said.
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