President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump held dueling events Saturday in Georgia, where they each attacked the other as their rematch for the White House ramps up.
Here’s what you should know:
Biden continues post-State of the Union campaign swing
The president delivered fiery remarks during his rally in Atlanta, slamming Trump for hosting Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at his Mar-A-Lago club Friday. Biden said the former president “has been sucking up to wannabe dictators and authoritarian thugs all over the world.”
Biden repeated his view of the 2024 general election, calling it “a contest between competing forces in the battle for the soul of this nation.”
Trump slams Biden over his State of the Union address
At his first rally since emerging as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Trump criticized Biden’s State of the Union address as “partisan” and “angry.”
“Two nights ago, we all heard crooked Joe’s angry, dark, hate-filled rant of a State of the Union address,” Trump said at his rally in Rome, Georgia.
Killing of Laken Riley
Biden said in an interview with MSNBC on Saturday that he should have used the term “undocumented” to describe Laken Riley’s alleged killer after calling him an “illegal” during Thursday’s State of the Union.
Riley, the 22-year-old nursing student who police say was killed by an undocumented immigrant on the University of Georgia campus last month, was a focal point of Trump’s event Saturday. Signs featuring Riley were passed out to the crowd, and Riley’s parents met with Trump backstage before he spoke.
Trump slammed Biden after the president said he shouldn’t have used the term “illegal.”
“He was an illegal immigrant. He was an illegal alien. He was an illegal migrant, and he shouldn’t have been in our country, and he never would have been under the Trump policy,” the former president said. “Biden should be apologizing for apologizing to this killer.”
Source: www.cnn.com