Speaking from New Hampshire, Joe Biden asserted that at every international meeting he attended, the global leaders began to pull him aside, one after another, to whisper, ‘Joe, Trump can’t win.’
US President Joe Biden said global leaders whom he met recently are terrified of what Donald Trump’s return to the White House could do to democratic rule around the world.
“Every international meeting I attend,” Biden said, particularly mentioning his whirlwind trip to Germany last week, “They pull me aside — one leader after the other, quietly — and say, ‘Joe, he can’t win.’ My democracy is at stake.”
On Tuesday, Biden commented on New Hampshire’s capital, Concord, when he was supposed to give a speech on healthcare.
Wrapping up his speech, Biden headed to a campaign office to stump for Democratic candidates in New Hampshire. There, too, he continued his broadsides against Trump, and at one point, he said: “We’ve got to lock him up.”
The Democratic ticket lost some of its energy at midsummer when Biden stepped down to care for his ailing wife’s health. He was replaced in July by Vice President Kamala Harris.
Some of Biden’s boosters – indeed, some of Harris’s most ardent supporters – have shouted during her rallies that she would put Trump in jail on inauguration day; such chants, however, have their origin with Trump backers demanding jail time for his 2016 opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Mobilizing the crowd gathered at the campaign office, Biden quipped, “Lock him up.” But he quickly followed up with, “Politically lock him up. Lock him out; that’s what we have to do.”
