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Trump Slams 'Loser, Dummy' Joe Biden Ahead of Competing Iowa Events
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19:22Now PlayingPresident Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden are assailing each other in overlapping visits to the key state of Iowa on Tuesday, previewing what the country might get in next year’s election if Biden becomes his party’s nominee.
The president unleashed a series of schoolyard taunts of the former vice president before taking off from the White House, declaring “Joe Biden is a dummy.”
“I’d rather run against Biden than anybody,” he said. “I think he’s the weakest mentally and I like running against people that are weak mentally.”
Biden, too, was going on the offense, campaigning alone in Iowa in an effort to present himself as the front-runner in a field of two dozen Democrats. He released an advance text of his speech in which he slams Trump, essentially goading the president to respond to him directly.
In it, he calls Trump an “existential threat to America.” That was part of his effort to emphasize the economy— an issue the president often promotes as his chief strength in a time of low unemployment — during a speech in Davenport, a center of eastern Iowa’s agricultural manufacturing industry.
“How many sleepless nights do you think Trump has had over what he’s doing to America’s farmers?” Biden will ask, according to the prepared remarks. “Zero.”
Though the race for the Democratic nomination is early and fluid, the dueling visits to Iowa offer a glimpse into what a Trump-Biden matchup might portend. Trump and Biden have been circling each other for months .
Despite the private counsel of his advisers, Trump had thrown a steady stream of public insults at Biden even before his fresh round Tuesday. Since March, Trump has mocked or criticized Biden on Twitter nearly 40 times.
In one of his most brazen attacks, during a recent state visit to Japan , Trump echoed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s description of Biden as “low-IQ.”
Biden, in turn, has hit at Trump. At a recent Houston fundraiser, Biden vowed not to “get down in the mud wrestling with this fella,” only to say later at the same event, “We all know this guy doesn’t know anything.”
Both men have something to prove during this trip.
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