Biden says Trump’s July 4 spectacle ‘misses the point’
Posted July 4, 2019 3:49 pm.
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MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa — Former Vice-President Joe Biden says President Donald Trump’s Fourth of July spectacle in Washington “misses the point.”
Biden was speaking to a few hundred supporters in working-class Marshalltown, Iowa.
The Democratic presidential candidate says, “I wonder what Donald Trump will say this evening, when he speaks to the nation at an event designed more to stroke his ego than celebrate American ideals.”
Earlier, the 76-year-old Biden, in well-worn running shoes, zigzagged across a parade route in Independence, Iowa, often jogging from curb to curb, sometimes trotting backward.
Clearly in his element as a hand-to-hand politician, Biden posed for innumerable photos with supporters, such as Elizabeth Washburn, who travelled with her husband and son more than an hour from Iowa City to see Biden.
The Associated Press
