The Biden campaign on Thursday slammed former President Trump’s convention speech as a disjointed attempt to hide his “extreme vision” for a second term, while touting Biden’s intention to continue campaigning.
In a statement, Biden campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon sought to link Trump to the Heritage Foundation’s controversial policy plan, Project 2025, but Trump and his campaign have actively sought to distance themselves from it.
“Tonight, Donald Trump rambled for over an hour and did not mention Project 2025 once,” O’Malley Dillon said in a statement. “He did not mention the pain and cruelty he has inflicted on American women by overturning Roe v. Wade. He did not mention his plans to seize the civil service and pardon the January 6th rioters.”
“Instead of offering solutions, he tried to find problems in America. But at the end of the day, it was Donald Trump who destroyed our economy, disenfranchised us, and ruined middle-class families,” she continued. “Now he’s pursuing the presidency with an even more extreme vision of where he wants to take this country.”
O’Malley Dillon argued that President Biden “want to build an America that protects democracy, not weakens it. He wants to build an America that restores rights and protects freedoms, not one that takes them away.”
“The stakes have never been higher and the choice has never been clearer,” she said. “President Biden is more determined than ever to defeat Donald Trump and his Project 2025 agenda in November.”
Trump’s convention speech lasted more than 90 minutes and was essentially two speeches crammed into one: The first 20 minutes were spent talking about the bullet he received in his ear during an assassination attempt last weekend, and the rest of the speech was essentially a rally speech, with him going off script and jumping from one topic to the next.
The former president’s keynote speech comes as Biden faces intense scrutiny from Democrats over whether he should retain his lead in November’s presidential election and whether he can beat Trump.
Further complicating matters, Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday and is in isolation in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
Neither he nor his campaign have indicated they intend to withdraw from the race.
