President Joe Biden went almost-home to take a victory lap Friday after delivering a State of the Union address that Democrats applauded.
The 81-year-old president flew to Philadelphia and spent the afternoon in Delaware County, adjacent to his adopted hometown of Wilmington.
There he held a kitchen table talking session with a local family and headlined a campaign rally, as Pennsylvania will likely be the most pivotal state in the general election later this year.
Biden told several hundred supporters gathered at Strath Haven Middle School, ‘If you’re tired you probably watched my address last night.’
‘I got an unusually warm reception from Marjorie Taylor Greene,’ he joked, after the Trump-supporting Georgia lawmaker wore a MAGA hat to his speech and shouted out how he needed to call attention to the murder of Laken Riley – at the hands of an undocumented immigrant.
He also took former President Donald Trump to task for hosting Hungary’s Victor Orbán Friday.
‘You know who he’s meeting with today down at Mar-a-Lago? Orbán of Hungary, who has stated that he doesn’t think democracy works,’ the president commented.
President Joe Biden went almost-home to take a victory lap Friday after delivering a State of the Union address that Democrats applauded
‘ I got an unusually warm reception from Marjorie Taylor Greene ,’ he joked, after the Trump-supporting Georgia lawmaker wore a MAGA hat to his speech and shouted out how he needed to call attention to the murder of Laken Riley – at the hands of an undocumented immigrant
He said that Orbán has worked toward a ‘dictatorship,’ the only NATO leader to do so.
‘That’s who he’s meeting with,’ Biden said.
The president also reiterated many of the key points he laid out in his hour-plus State of the Union address.
Dr. Biden also smacked around Trump as she introduced her husband wearing a bright purple ensemble.
‘Donald Trump wakes up every morning thinking about one person and one person only – himself,’ the first lady said, garnering boos from the crowd.
‘He tears people down and pits us against one another. He mocks women’s bodies and devalues our existence,’ she said.
‘And here’s the one thing that really gets my Philly up,’ she said to laugs. ‘As a daughtet of a World War II veteran, a Navy veteran and the mother of an Army soldier. Donald Trump insults our veterans and disparages those those who died in war calling them losers and suckers – how dare he!’ the first lady exclaimed.
He also took former President Donald Trump to task for hosting Hungary’s Victor Orbán Friday. ‘You know who he’s meeting with today down at Mar-a-Lago? Orbán of Hungary, who has stated that he doesn’t think democracy works,’ the president commented
First lady Dr. Jill Biden (left) also hammered former President Donald Trump as she introduced her husband at the Delaware County middle school in Pennsylvania. ‘ Donald Trump wakes up every morning thinking about one person and one person only – himself,’ she said
‘Donald Trump is dangerous – to women and to our famililes and to our country,’ Dr. Biden added. ‘And we can’t let him win.
She warned Democrats that they can’t wake up like they did in 2016 after Trump shockingly beat former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the White House race.
‘Terrified of the future ahead of us, thinking “Oh my God what just happened? What are we going to do now?” she said.
While Trump hasn’t yet amassed the number of delegates to officially become the Republicans’ presumptive nominee, he cleaned up on Super Tuesday, winning all but one state against rival Nikki Haley and forcing her out of the Republican race Wednesday.
Both Biden and Trump are headed to Georgia Saturday for dueling political events as it’s expected to again be a key swing state.