While Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden considers Pennsylvania home, President Donald Trump ridiculed him for abandoning the state when he was 10-years-old.
During the 2020 Council for National Policy Meeting in Arlington, Virginia on Friday, Trump garnered laughs and applause from the audience for his remarks about Biden departing Pennsylvania.
“I was in Pennsylvania yesterday, a place that he said he was born in, which is true, but he left when he was like 9-years-old. So he left a long time ago,” Trump said.
He continued, “He left seven decades ago, and he still calls it his home, and his real home is a place he never leaves anymore, never leaves.”
Watch his comments below:
Trump is out here attacking Biden for moving away from Pennsylvania when he was 10 pic.twitter.com/x2KQchMw1F
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 21, 2020
During Trump’s rally outside of Mariotti Building Products in Old Forge just outside Biden’s birthplace of Scranton, the president slammed him for more than just leaving Pennsylvania.
He challenged Pennsylvania voters to “imagine the mayhem coming to your town and every single town in America” if Biden is elected in the upcoming November election, as IJR previously reported.
Trump also told them they are “not going to have law and order.”
His comments come just one day after Biden delivered his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday night, as IJR previously reported.
Biden told Americans they have two choices.
The first being to continue down a path of “becoming angrier, less hopeful, more divided,” and the second being to choose “hope and light.”
Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris implored Americans during her speech on Wednesday night to vote for Biden because he “will bring something different, something better, and do the important work.”
The Democratic National Convention came to a close on Thursday night.
The Republicans will hold their convention from Aug. 24 through Aug. 27 where Trump will formally accept his party’s presidential nomination.