At a rally in Maryland on Thursday night, President Joe Biden denounced former President Donald Trump and “MAGA Republicans” for “destroying America.”
Biden addressed the gathering assembled at the Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville, Maryland, “I don’t have any regard for MAGA Republicans.”
A heckler momentarily interrupted the president, yelling, “You stole the election! You cheated on the election!
The individual, who was dressed in a suit, was promptly booed by the audience and led away.
He made a “V” shape with his fingers, a la Richard Nixon, and then quickly bowed before leaving the room.
As the situation developed, Biden said the words “Let him go – let him go – that’s OK.” The president said, “Ignorance has no bounds.”
Biden was in Maryland to campaign for four Democratic candidates, although he mostly supported Wes Moore, the party’s choice for governor.
Republican Dan Cox, a Trump-backed MAGA candidate who the Democratic Governors Association supported in the hopes that he would be simpler to defeat in November in the purple state, is Moore’s opponent on the ticket.
The state’s popular, moderate Republican governor who served out his term limits, Larry Hogan, does not endorse Cox.
Do not undervalue what we are opposed to. Before presenting Biden, Moore warned the audience, “Do not underestimate what we are up against. “It is not wonderful that we will be facing an election-denier in November.” He is a veteran of battle, Biden said.
The president made a joke about the Rhodes Scholar’s one downside.
To applause, the president said, “And if we all do our bit, the next governor of Maryland.”
Additionally, Biden visited the region to campaign for Sen. Chris Van Hollen, Aruna Miller, the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor of Maryland, and Brooke Lierman, the Democratic candidate for comptroller of Maryland.
Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, a significant member of the January 6 House select committee, and Maryland House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer addressed the audience before Biden arrived.
Despite being invited, First Lady Jill Biden is still at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. On Wednesday, she tested positive for COVID-19 once again as a rebound case despite taking the antiviral medication Paxlovid.
The president stopped by two rooms housing overflow spectators before speaking on stage.
He made light of the situation at first, saying, “The good news of being in an overflow room is that you may leave when I start to talk,” later adding, “I will not be insulted if you leave. In a moment, I’ll get up and talk.
He also addressed his fans, “I just want to say thank you – thank you, thank you, thank you.”
He complimented the Maryland congressional delegation while making light of one audience member.
How do they let you to don a Penn State jersey, I wonder. Given that the University of Maryland—another Big Ten institution—is close, Biden questioned.
He spoke to band students in a separate room as a fan shouted at him to address “immigration” in the cafeteria.
More Latinos work in my administration than any other in American history, according to the president. America looks like my administration,” the president retorted.
Biden had earlier charged the ‘radical’ Republicans and former president Donald Trump with’semi-fascism’ at a fundraiser in Bethesda at a $3.1 million house.
About 100 affluent contributors listened as Biden said, “What we’re witnessing today is either the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA mentality.” “It’s not just Trump; it’s the whole mindset that supports it. I’m going to say it’s like semi-fascism,” the speaker said.
In addition to gay marriage and reproductive rights being on the ballot in November, the president cautioned that the GOP would once again target Obamacare.
“This is not the Republican party of your father.” He recited a phrase he often uses while speaking at fundraising events, “This is a different transaction.
It was anticipated that the tiny gathering in Bethesda, a posh suburb of Washington, D.C., would earn $1 million for the Democratic Grassroots Victory Fund and the Democratic National Committee.
The DNC said on Thursday that the party has raised $92 million so far this year and ‘a midterm record’ of $255 million this cycle.
The president was criticised by an RNC spokesperson for returning from his two-state, three-home vacation on Wednesday, only to headline a fundraiser in the affluent D.C. suburbs the following day.
According to RNC spokeswoman Emma Vaughn, “in true Biden manner, he comes back after weeks of vacation just to hobnob with leftist elites within the beltway, instead of solving the myriad issues he caused.” If only Biden was as committed to helping families and hardworking Americans as he was to arranging his vacations.