WASHINGTON — In a tactical shift, President Joe Biden has gone from using appearances to defend his own record and plans for four more years to warning about policies Donald Trump has vowed to implement if he gets a second term. Trump, meanwhile, has continued a largely grievance-based campaign. “I have the wounds all over my body.
If I took this shirt off you’d see a beautiful, beautiful person but you’d see wounds all over me,” the twice-impeached and once-convicted former president told evangelicals in Washington on Saturday. “I’ve taken a lot of wounds, I can tell you. More than I suspect any president ever.
” Biden often wraps official White House events with criticism of Trump on everything from abortion access to trade to immigration to taxes to health care to preserving democracy. And at campaign events, Biden focuses remarks at big-dollar fundraisers by going into detail about what he believes Trump returning to power would mean for the country. For instance, during a June 18 campaign fundraiser in the upscale Washington suburb of McLean, Virginia — the last time the president is due in public before his debate with Trump on Thursday — the president said Trump’s name 17 times.
Biden wanted those writing big checks to his campaign to have a clear view of how he thinks about a second Trump term. “The next president could [nominate] possibly two or more Supreme Court justices in the next four years. That would mean, if Trump wins, there would be f.
