Joe Biden is going to take “cocaine” for the debate to appear more reactive. Donald Trump “has spent his life denigrating African Americans. His is blatant racism.” With one week to go before the first debate, tension is high between the two White House hopefuls, engaged in a heavy exchange of mutual attacks while, according to the latest polls, they are neck and neck, both with 49% of the preferences.
Putting aside calm tones and political correctness, the president and his election campaign do not miss an opportunity to push Trump. “He is a convicted criminal. But as disturbing as this is, even more damaging is the full-scale assault he is launching on our judicial system,” Biden said at a fundraising event in Virginia with Bill and Hillary Clinton, during which $8 million was raised. “A second term of Trump is more of a threat than the first. He can’t accept that he lost the 2020 elections, it’s making him go crazy. Not only is he obsessed with the 2020 defeat but, at the moment, he is also out of his mind. I’m serious, listen to him,” he added, reiterating that his greatest concern is the possibility that, in the case of another four years, the former president may nominate two more Supreme Court justices.
Biden’s criticisms slide off the former president who responds in kind, returning to speculate on his alleged cocaine use. Taking inspiration from Hunter Biden’s addictions and the discovery of cocaine at the White House in 2023, Trump has once again suggested, as he had previously done during the State of the Union address, that “the worst president in history” could also use cocaine in the first debate on June 27 to appear more vigorous and lively, compared to the “weakness and confusion” that characterize him. In Racine, Wisconsin, the former president also assured that he “loves Milwaukee,” the city chosen for the Republican convention after saying, behind closed doors, that it is a “horrible” place. His staff also denied rumors about Trump’s stay in Chicago, at his Trump Tower, during the event just to avoid Milwaukee. Rumors deemed “fake news.”
Despite displaying confidence ahead of the debate, the two candidates are already working to prepare for the face-off, aware of their respective weaknesses. Biden will focus on the confrontation in the coming days at Camp David. Trump has already begun but knows that his position could change if the Supreme Court decides on presidential immunity in the coming days, which he claims against criminal proceedings against him.
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