Biden attacks Trump at Detroit rally, says ‘I am running and we’re going to win’
- ‘Americans want a president not a dictator,’ Biden told supporters as more Democrats urged him to quit the US presidential race
A fired up Joe Biden again rejected speculation he would quit the US presidential race and tried to turn the spotlight on rival Donald Trump as he took his crisis-hit re-election bid back on the campaign trail on Friday.
But as he addressed a lively rally in the battleground state of Michigan, the drumbeat of Democrats urging the 81-year-old Biden to step aside kept getting louder following a disastrous debate performance against Trump.
“There’s been a lot of speculation lately. What’s Joe Biden going to do, is he going to stay in the race, is he going to drop out?” Biden told supporters in the city of Detroit, to chants of “Don’t you quit!”
“Here’s my answer: I am running and we’re going to win! I’m not going to change that,” Biden said.
Opposition continued to grow, however, despite a defiant Biden coming out fighting at a high-stakes press conference at a Nato summit in Washington on Thursday.
Nineteen Democratic lawmakers have now called on him to bow out of the race due to concerns over his health and mental acuity in the wake of the June 27 debate debacle.