President Joe Biden believes Donald Trump’s decision to pick Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) as his running mate has cemented the Republican Party into the mold of “Make America Great Again” politics.
“He’s decided that MAGA Republican politics is going to be the future of the Republican Party,” Biden said of Trump’s running mate selection during an interview with BET News’s Ed Gordon released Wednesday evening.
Trump announced Vance would be his vice presidential candidate on Monday. The Ohio senator, known for his hard-line nationalistic policies, formally accepted the nomination to be vice president in a wide-ranging speech at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday evening.
In a raspy voice, Biden praised Vance as “a bright guy and a hard-working senator” but worried that the Ohioan is “a really, really, really conservative MAGA Republican.”
While reiterating that violent rhetoric must be “toned down” in the wake of the assassination attempt against Trump, Biden claimed that he will “take on” Trump as he has “been taking him on: based on the issues.”
“There’s no room for violence, you can’t be talking about violence,” Biden told Gordon before criticizing past comments Trump has made and then clarified. “You can’t be saying that if I lose the election, there’ll be a blood bath, which he says, that the January 6 folks were good folks and should be released from prison.”
His words came as Republican critics held the Democratic Party at least partly responsible for raising the political temperature to a degree they say fueled the assassination attempt on Trump.
Biden says political rhetoric needs to be toned down, claiming he wants to talk about the “serious, serious differences we have on the issues and the future of the country.”
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In a preview of his interview with BET News released earlier on Thursday, Biden said he would consider dropping his reelection bid on one condition.
“If I had some medical condition that emerged, if somebody, if doctors came to me and said, you got this problem and that problem,” the president told Gordon.
