An excited and transformed President Joe Biden told supporters in North Carolina that Trump was the lone criminal in the country, and the crowd chanted, “Lock him up.”
Biden said:
About crime. I had to remind him that he oversaw a record increase in the murder rate in 2020. From what I've seen, violent crime is at a 50-year low. There's more to do. And I pointed out that the only convicted criminal on stage last night was Donald Trump. Considering he has 34 felony convictions, he was fined $400 million for his business fraud charges of sexually assaulting women in public places. I thought Donald Trump wasn't just a convicted felon. Donald Trump is a one-man crime wave.
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After Biden said, “He’s not just a convicted felon, he’s a lone criminal,” the crowd stormed a Biden rally. pic.twitter.com/yPLlvPe48k
— Sarah Liz Jones (@PoliticusSarah) June 28, 2024
This was a completely different Biden than the man who stood on the debate stage. It was as if the president's sense of urgency grew as the debate got off to a slow start.
Instead of backing down after the debate, Biden and the Democrats went on the offensive. If Trump and his party think they have won, they could be in for a rude awakening as the campaign officially appears to have begun.