In Las Vegas, Trump Turns His Focus Back to Biden – The New York Times

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In Las Vegas, Trump Turns His Focus Back to Biden – The New York Times


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At a rally in Nevada, a key battleground state, Donald Trump sought to pivot to a general election message. A mile away, Vice President Kamala Harris framed the election as a battle for democracy.
Michael Gold and
Reporting from Las Vegas
Former President Donald J. Trump, who has been itching for months to focus on a likely matchup between him and President Biden in November, previewed on Saturday a likely general-election message, extensively attacking Mr. Biden at an event in Nevada, a critical battleground state.
Further proof of Nevada’s importance could be seen a mile away, where Vice President Kamala Harris cast the fight against Mr. Trump, should he wrap up the nomination, as a battle for democracy.
Though Mr. Trump was ostensibly visiting Las Vegas to encourage his supporters to turn out for the Nevada caucuses on Feb. 8, he devoted much of his speech to Mr. Biden’s handling of the surge of crossings at the southern border, which he called “a weapon of mass destruction” internally destroying the United States.
And Mr. Trump, who currently faces four criminal cases that he casts — without evidence — as attempts by Mr. Biden to wrest the election from him, wielded the language of the justice system to suit his purposes.
“What Joe Biden doing is a crime against our nation,” Mr. Trump said. He later added: “With your vote, he will be judged and convicted by the American people for this atrocity that he’s done.”
Saturday’s speech was in many ways a return to form after a month in which Mr. Trump had escalated his attacks against his rivals in the Republican presidential primary as he scored decisive wins in Iowa and New Hampshire.
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