“I am running and we’re going to win,” Biden tells an energetic crowd at a rally in Detroit
President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign rally at Renaissance High School in Detroit on July 12.
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President Joe Biden charged forward with his campaign before an enthusiastic crowd in Detroit on Friday, declaring unequivocally, “I am running.”
He attacked Donald Trump in a number of new ways, including explicitly saying that Trump raped a woman.
“Fourteen million Democrats like you voted for me in the primaries,” Biden said. “You made me the nominee, no one else. Not the press, not the pundits, not the insiders, not the donors. You the voters. You decided, no one else, and I’m not going anywhere.”
“I am running and we’re going to win,” he said to cheers.
Supporters attend President Joe Biden’s campaign rally at Renaissance High School in Detroit on July 12.
Supporters attend President Joe Biden’s campaign rally at Renaissance High School in Detroit on July 12.
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The speech at a Detroit high school comes as the president has remained defiant in the face of growing calls from Democratic lawmakers and donors for him to step aside in the race. The Michigan crowd encouraged Biden to stay in the race, breaking out in a chant of “Don’t you quit!”
For the first time, Biden also laid out what his priorities would be for the first 100 days of his second term, which included codifying Roe v. Wade, making the child tax cuts permanent, expanding Medicare and Medicaid, raising the minimum wage and banning assault weapons.
Biden was clearly engaged with the crowd throughout his lengthy remarks which ran for 36 minutes.
