Former President Donald Trump, Republican candidate in the American election in November, presented this election on Saturday March 16 as a turning point in the country's history, evoking a "butchery" for the United States economy. he was not elected against the Democratic incumbent Joe Biden.
Shortly before, he had mentioned the threats weighing on the American automobile industry, which according to him will be “the least of the worries” for the United States in the event of Joe Biden’s reappointment.
Criticizing what he described as Chinese plans to build cars in Mexico and sell them to Americans, he said he wanted to "impose a 100 percent tariff on every vehicle that leaves the factory." “They won’t be able to sell these cars if I’m elected.”
“November 5 will be the most important date in the history of our country,” assured Donald Trump during a meeting of his party in Vandalia (Ohio), four days after securing the Republican nomination, as President Biden did in the Democratic camp.
Describing his Republican primary victory as "the fastest ever," he noted that it also meant a wait of more than seven months before the rematch of the 2020 election. "It's an eternity when you have incompetent people at the head of the country and who are leading it to its downfall,” he said.
“He wants another January 6.”
Joe Biden's campaign team reacted to these ambiguous remarks widely commented on social networks with a press release calling Donald Trump a "loser" of the 2020 presidential election, who "is doubling down on his threats of political violence."
“He wants another January 6,” Joe Biden’s campaign team continued, referring to the attack on the Capitol by Donald Trump supporters in 2021, “but the Americans are going to inflict another electoral defeat on him in November because they continue to reject his extremism, his taste for violence, and his thirst for revenge.”
Mr. Biden then spoke directly during a dinner in Washington, where he also warned of “an unprecedented moment in history.”
“Freedom is under assault... The lies about the 2020 election, the plot to undermine it and join the January 6 insurrection pose the greatest threat to our democracy since the Civil War ", did he declare. “In 2020, they failed, but (…) the threat remains.”
The leader also brushed aside concerns about his age. “One of the candidates is too old and mentally unfit to be president,” he said. “The other one is me.”
The advanced age of the two candidates: 81 years for Joe Biden and 77 for Donald Trump is a recurring subject of the campaign, which promises to be particularly acrimonious, with cross attacks on the physical form and cognitive abilities of the contenders at home White.
