Critics of President Biden have contrasted the Mother’s Day weekend holiday with former President Trump’s large rally on Saturday in New Jersey, a historically blue state, and contrasted President Biden’s rally in Delaware with He slams beach vacations.
“Supporters camped out overnight on the beach in preparation for Trump’s rally starting at 5pm today in Wildwood. Joe Biden can’t fill the broom closet without staff, media, and angry protesters.” , one X user named Bad Hombre posted on Saturday. .
Trump held a beachside rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, on Saturday night, where the 45th president was joined by at least 80,000 and as many as 100,000 supporters in the historically deep blue state. At the same time, Biden arrived on his Mother’s Day at his home in Rehoboth Beach, 34 miles across Deleware Bay.
Biden’s visit followed a fundraising event in Seattle that featured local leaders such as Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee and Washington Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal, as well as left-wing anti-Israel demonstrators holding signs. A group of attendees greeted Biden. The Seattle Times reported that he was reading “Traitor Massacre Joe Palestine Liberation” and “Massacre Joe Must Go.”
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On May 11, 2024, a crowd gathered on a beach in Wildwood, New Jersey, for former President Trump’s rally. (Fox News Digital Image Direct)
As of last fall, Biden was on track to spend about 40% of his presidential term on vacation. Meanwhile, President Trump reportedly spent 26% of his time outside of Washington, DC during his term in office, while President Barack Obama reportedly spent 11% of his vacation time. As previously reported by the New York Post,
Social media commenters jumped in with comparisons between Trump’s large rally at the Jersey Shore and Biden spending the weekend at a beach house in Delaware.
“Crooked Joe Biden will be heading to his beach house soon for a weekend of rest. Sad!” RNC Research Posted to X This was in response to a video showing a crowd of people gathered on a South Jersey beach.
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Former President Trump’s rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, on May 11, 2024, drew tens of thousands of people. (Fox News Digital Image Direct)
“The crowd in Wildwood, New Jersey continues to grow. People are camping, some sleeping on the beach. President Trump is not scheduled to speak until 5pm ET today. To meet Biden. There’s no one camping,” Mr. X said. An account posted by Political Pom.
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President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden sit under an umbrella in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on August 2, 2023. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
“Meanwhile, Biden goes on vacation to a beach in Delaware and no one rallies for him.” Another X account postedalongside videos of crowds lining the streets expecting Trump.
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Trump supporters gather at large rally in New Jersey to hear former president speak as trial continues
“The crowd in Wildwood, New Jersey continues to grow,” the Political Pom X account posted. (Fox News Digital Image Direct)
“Biden ignores questions, ends fundraising day, heads to beach for weekend rest.” RNC research posted.
Another X account presented “80,000 people attended Mr. Trump’s rally in Wildwood, New Jersey. Will Biden be able to draw that many people to his rally?” the poll asked.
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Fox News Digital interviewed participants at the Trump rally on Saturday who said they were happily waiting for the former president on the beach, adding that they expected Trump to win in a landslide in November. Ta.
5/11/2024 General view: A large crowd gathers on Wildwood Beach today as presidential candidate Donald Trump takes the stage at 5pm ET. Trump supporters reportedly camped on the beach overnight in preparation for the former president’s rally today. (Fox News Digital Image Direct)
“I think this country needs to change, but we already know what President Trump is about,” said one supporter who gave his name as Carlos. “So that change is going to come back to us very quickly, because that’s what we need. We need Trump, because if Biden is getting the job done right now, that’s what we need. Part of it is his fault. Part of it probably is. But I think we need Trump back to get this country back on track. ”
When asked in November about Trump’s prospects, Carlos pointed to the large crowd and said, “Look.”
Former President Trump departs from a campaign rally in Wildwood on Saturday, May 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
“There are probably 6,000 to 7,000 people, maybe more, waiting in line. [The line] Go all the way back to the entrance. That means there are currently 35,000 to 40,000 people in this venue,” he said, noting that some people had been waiting for the venue to open since Thursday.
An attendee named Lisa from Westchester County, New York, described herself as a “turnover” supporter of Trump, despite coming from a liberal family background.
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“It’s like something changed overnight in the culture that I wasn’t aware of,” she said. “I was taking things at face value, but the moment the walls came down, I just started [going] Deep inside everything. ”
Participants at the rally said they were happily waiting for the former president on the beach, adding that they expected Trump to win a landslide in November. (Fox News Digital Image Direct)
Trump was joined by New Jersey Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew, who also left the Democratic Party and joined the Republican Party during the Trump administration. He called the Wildwood event historic for the Garden State.
“This has to be the largest political gathering in New Jersey history,” Rep. Van Drew told the audience. (Fox News Digital Image Direct)
“This has to be the largest political gathering in New Jersey history,” Van Drew told the crowd.
A common theme during the long rally, which ended around 8 p.m., was the assertion that President Trump will win in November in historically blue states.
Signs from Saturday’s Wildwood Trump rally. (Fox News Digital Image Direct)
“We’re going to win New Jersey,” the Republican front-runner told the crowd, leading to wild cheers.
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“We’re going to win New Jersey,” the Republican front-runner told the crowd. (Fox News Digital Image Direct)
“As you can see today, we are expanding the electoral map to win New Jersey,” Trump said. “I think we can win them all. Across America, in so-called blue states, millions of people join our movement on the basis of love, intelligence, and something called common sense. doing.”
In addition to New Jersey residents, the rally drew large crowds from the key battleground state of Pennsylvania, as well as participants from deep-blue New York and elsewhere.
President Trump focused much of the event on the economy and inflation, noting that prices for everything from hot dogs to chicken to gasoline have soared under the Biden administration.
The rally drew Trump supporters from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, and other states. (Fox News Digital Image Direct)
“Biden’s price increases continue to drain more than $1,000 a month from the typical New Jersey household,” Trump said.
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“Biden’s price increases continue to drain more than $1,000 a month from the typical New Jersey household,” Trump told supporters. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
“From day one, we will abandon Bidennomics and bring back Magnomics,” he said. “And we’re going to bring manufacturing, tourism and other industries back to New Jersey like we’ve never seen before.”
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President Trump, in comments to the raucous audience, blasted Biden, calling him a “stupid” and “the worst president in history.”
“He’s turning over college campuses to anarchists, jihadist maniacs, anti-American extremists who want to tear down the American flag,” Trump said before calling out Biden and the Democratic National Committee. “Everywhere they go they go. “I want to destroy it,” he said. , “to return the contributions of all the anti-Semites, American haters, and funders of campus chaos.”
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In response to questions about Sunday morning’s rally and criticism, the Biden campaign told Fox News Digital that a campaign called “No More ‘Juggernaut’: Trump’s Non-Campaign Sells Desperate Spin” Introducing email.
“Republicans* are pleading for support for Trump’s failed campaign,” the email said. “This is a voice from within the Republican Party: We said the campaign is broken, understaffed and alienating moderate voters, and unable to build the election infrastructure needed to win 270 electors in November. “Republicans in battleground states are saying the same thing.” That’s exactly what is sounding the alarm about the outlook for the Trump campaign. ”
The massive and potentially historic rally in New Jersey comes as Trump continues his trial in New York City, where he faces 34 counts of falsifying business records. The former president denies all charges against him. President Trump, who is under a gag order pending the trial, has repeatedly denounced the case as a “fraud” promoted by the Biden administration ahead of the general election.
Fox News Digital’s Andrew Mark Miller and Bradford Betz contributed to this report.
