A heckler disrupted President Joe Biden’s speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, drawing the attention of the president, who called him an “idiot,” before being escorted out.
In the middle of his speech to a crowd at Laborfest, where labor unions and their members gather annually, a heckler yelled at the president onstage, garnering a reaction. Biden halted his speech to ask security to “let him go,” delivering a quip in the process.
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“All right, God love you. Let him go, let him go,” Biden said as security began to escort the man out. “Let him go. He’s — look, everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”
His quip was met with laughs and applause from the audience.
“Extreme MAGA Republicans don’t just threaten our personal rights and our economic security — they embrace political violence,” he said, returning to his speech.
The remarks of the heckler couldn’t be immediately determined, but video footage showed him being booed and approached by security.
He returned to the heckler later with a much less charitable approach.
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He said everyone in the United States must be “more committed to saving American democracy than the MAGA Republicans and that guy out that door [who] are destroying democracy.”
After the heckler is removed, Biden mentions the need to be “more committed to saving American democracy than the MAGA Repubublicans and that guy out that door are [to] destroying democracy.” pic.twitter.com/RloY4nVtLc
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Biden gave his speech at Milwaukee as part of his Labor Day tour of two key battleground states, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, in order to tout his administration’s accomplishments for workers ahead of the midterm elections.
