Joe Biden says Donald Trump 'hasn't stopped losing,' knocks … – coloradopolitics.com
President Joe Biden speaks to reporters in Nantucket, Mass., on Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023, about hostages freed by Hamas in a third set of releases under a four-day cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas. On Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023, Biden attended a fundraiser at a private residence in Cherry Hills Village on the first leg of his Colorado trip.
President Joe Biden speaks to reporters in Nantucket, Mass., on Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023, about hostages freed by Hamas in a third set of releases under a four-day cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas. On Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023, Biden attended a fundraiser at a private residence in Cherry Hills Village on the first leg of his Colorado trip.
President Joe Biden said Tuesday night at a fundraiser in Cherry Hills Village that Donald Trump’s record of rolling back abortion rights and recent vow to revamp the national healthcare system spell defeat for the likely Republican nominee in next year’s election.
“Donald Trump’s about to find out the power of women in America in 2024,” Biden told donors, according to a pool report, adding that since the former president came off the sidelines, “We haven’t stopped winning and he hasn’t stopped losing.”
“The only reason a fundamental right has been stripped away from the American people is Donald Trump,” Biden said.
Biden also got in a dig at U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, a vocal critic of his administration, calling it “pretty unbelievable” that the Silt Republican called the Democrats’ signature infrastructure package “garbage.”
It was likely a preview of Biden’s remarks on Wednesday, when he is scheduled to conclude the Colorado trip with an appearance in Boebert’s congressional district at Pueblo’s CS Wind factory, the largest wind turbine tower manufacturing plant in the world.
CS Wind credited the Democratic-sponsored Inflation Reduction Act when the company broke ground this year on an expansion it said will double manufacturing capacity, with an anticipated 850 additional jobs at the plant by 2026.
The White House postponed a Colorado trip in mid-October just hours before Air Force One was scheduled to depart for the state so the president could conduct national security meetings about the escalating Israel-Hamas conflict.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, billed as a “special guest” at the fundraiser, spoke briefly before Biden took the stage.
Biden spoke for about 22 minutes to a crowd that included U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser and Secretary of State Jena Griswold at the home of Tamara Totah Picache, managing partner of the Flatiron Group, a private investment firm.
During his remarks, Biden said that Trump “is running for president bragging that he killed Roe v. Wade,” referring to the landmark 1973 ruling overturned last year by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Noting that Trump this week turned his sights on the Affordable Care Act, Biden said, “His plan is to throw every one of them off that legislation.”
“Trump gets his way — it’s all gone,” Biden added. “It’s not going to happen on my watch.”
Biden said he feels it “in his bones” that the country at an inflection point and said he suspected his audience felt the same.
Criticizing the Republican frontrunner’s rhetoric, Biden said that Trump’s recent comments characterizing his political opponents as “vermin” was similar to language used in Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
“Those of you over 40 like I am — we never talked this way in American politics,” he said. “We just can’t fall numb to Trump and the threats he poses.”
In a statement released Monday, Polis welcomed Biden’s visit to Pueblo, which he noted is known as the “home of heroes” and Pueblo chile, which he described as the “best chile in the world.”
“Colorado is leading the nation in transitioning to 100% renewable energy, and our wind manufacturing capabilities are helping to power our clean energy economy, create jobs, and save people money on electricity,” the governor said.
Biden mocked Boebert in August during a speech at a wind tower plant in Albuquerque, noting that the nearby CS Wind plant is slated to bring hundreds of jobs to the Republican’s congressional district.
Referring facetiously in the earlier speech to Boebert — who drew headlines earlier this year for heckling Biden during his State of the Union address — as “the very quiet Republican lady,” Biden knocked his opponent for voting against the Democrats’ signature Inflation Reduction Act, which included nearly $400 billion to address climate change.
“And it’s making all this possible,” Biden said. “And she railed against its passage. But, that’s OK, she’s welcoming it now.”
Rather than welcoming that particular federal spending in her district, Boebert greeted Biden’s impending visit earlier Tuesday by criticizing the administration and Biden’s policies.
“Families in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District are being crushed by so-called ‘Bidenomics,'” she said in a statement.
“On Joe Biden’s watch, credit card debt, inflation, groceries, and gas prices have all reached record highs. These high prices are squeezing working-class Coloradans and rural America. Rather than cutting wasteful federal spending and unleashing American energy production, Joe Biden continues to pander to radical extremists, lock up more land, and spend his time focused on campaign stunts and vacations rather than doing the job he was elected to do,” she said.
While en route to Denver on Air Force One, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that Biden plans to talk in Pueblo about how the president’s economic agenda — dubbed “Bidenomics” — “is mobilizing investments in clean energy, manufacturing, and creating good-paying jobs in communities across the country, including more than $7 billion in Colorado since he took office.”
Also on tap, the press secretary said, will be highlighting how “self-described MAGA Republicans, like Rep. Lauren Boebert, are threatening those investments, jobs, and opportunities” by trying to repeal major legislation, including the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
According to a pool reporter, Air Force One landed at Denver International Airport at 4:18 p.m. He was greeted by Polis and Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, who told reporters that they chatted about their children and families.
Biden flew to Denver from Atlanta, where he attended a service for former first lady Rosalynn Carter, who died on Nov. 19 at age 96.
Tickets to the fundraiser ranged from $1,000 to $100,000 and benefited the Biden Victory Fund, according to an invitation obtained by Colorado Politics. Seats priced $1,000 to $6,600 were listed as sold out by Tuesday morning. The joint fundraising committee allocates donations to Biden’s reelection campaign, the Democratic National Committee and state Democratic parties.
It was Biden’s first stop in Colorado since June 1, when he delivered the commencement address at the Air Force Academy in El Paso County. He’s visited the state three other times since the start of his administration — on Oct. 12, 2020, to designate a national monument at Camp Hale in Eagle County; on Jan. 7, 2022, to visit with families in Louisville affected by the Marshall fire; and, on Sept. 14, 2021, to talk about clean energy jobs at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory outside Arvada.
Tuesday’s fundraiser was the first campaign event Biden has attended in the state since a February 2020 fundraiser at the Denver home of former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and his wife, Hope Hernandez-Salazar.
Biden carried Colorado by 13.5 percentage points in 2020 and is widely favored to win the Democratic-leaning state’s 10 electoral votes next year.
The chairman of the House Oversight Committee says an offer from Hunter Biden to testify publicly before Congress doesn’t satisfy a subpoena they sent him amid an impeachment inquiry into his father, President Joe Biden. Rep. James Comer of Kentucky said Tuesday he expects the president’s son to fully cooperate with the demand for a closed-door interview. Hunter Biden has offered to testify publicly as Republicans pursue an impeachment inquiry into his father. He says closed-door sessions can be manipulated into a one-sided narrative. The high-stakes face-off comes during an impeachment inquiry that has so far failed to uncover evidence directly implicating Joe Biden in any wrongdoing.
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