'He's a joke': Joe Biden slammed as he campaigns in Pennsylvania following State of the Union address

WALLINGFORD, PENNSYLVANIA: President Joe Biden returned to the campaign trail on Friday, March 8, a day after his State of the Union address which saw one of his largest audiences of the year.

The Commander-in-Chief visited a campaign stop in suburban Philadelphia and is set to fly to Atlanta, Georgia the day after to ramp up his attacks on his presumptive political opponent for November 2024, former President Donald Trump.

"If you're tired, you probably watched my address last night," Biden joked, eliciting a brief laugh from the friendly audience at Strath Haven Middle School in Wallingford, Pennsylvania.

The Biden campaign has announced its intention to spend $30 million on a six-week-long video and digital ad campaign, which will augment his trips to New Hampshire, Wisconsin, and Michigan next week.

The ad campaign will focus on the themes of his annual speech and will seek to galvanize the Democratic base for a decisive electoral battle against Trump, per the New York Daily News.

What did President Joe Biden’s campaign speech on Friday entail?

"I got my usual warm reception from Congress and Marjorie Taylor Greene," Biden recalled the MAGA-aligned Georgia congresswoman who confronted him as he walked to the podium.

Biden accused Greene’s far-right "MAGA Republican" contemporaries, including former President Donald Trump of "trying to take away our freedoms."

During his Friday night speech in Wallingford, the President delivered a recapitulation of his State of the Union address.

He took the opportunity to recount his administration's achievements, while also pledging to build upon them in the months leading up to the November election and beyond, should he be re-elected.

According to The Washington Post, President Biden reiterated his administration’s steadfast stand in support of protecting access to reproductive rights.

At the beginning of his speech, Biden stated, "MAGA Republicans and Donald Trump want to pass a national ban on the right to choose, period."

“Well, take it seriously, folks, because that’s where they’re heading for,” he said. “Hear me loud and clear,” Biden added. “This will not happen on my watch.”

In addition, President Biden pledged to reinstate abortion access across the country should voters return him to Washington with a Democratic majority in Congress.

With successful ballot measures to protect abortion access in multiple states since the Supreme Court removed the constitutional right to abortion in 2022, many Democrats believe reproductive care will be an effective campaign topic in 2024.

The President also highlighted his administration's efforts to reduce prescription drug prices for Medicare beneficiaries and proposed a $35 monthly cap on insulin, as well as a reduction in drug prices all across the board, according to Spectrum News NY1.

Biden also vowed to strengthen and protect the Affordable Care Act against those seeking to repeal it, while also expanding its reach.

Additionally, the incumbent president spoke about the need to revise the tax code to ensure fairness for the average American, with a specific focus on increasing taxes for billionaires.

"Big corporations will finally have to pay their fair share. No really, this is just fairness. It’s about fairness and decency," Biden declared.

The middle class, which the President claimed is the "heart and soul and sinew of the country. If you focus on them, give them an even chance, the poor have a way up and the wealthy still do very, very well."

The 81-year-old further remarked that although he considers himself a capitalist, "capitalism, when it engages in non-competition, it ends up being stealing."

What did Biden say about Trump during his Wallingford speech?

President Biden called out Donald Trump by name, after declining to do so in his State of the Union address on Thursday.

During his speech in Wallingford, Biden repeatedly mentioned the former president by name, instead of referring to him as "my predecessor."

Trump, according to Biden, intends to take away rights and freedoms and strengthen his ties to autocrats. He noted that Trump will be meeting with Hungary's right-wing Prime Minister, Viktor Orban.

Orban, who has fostered authoritarianism, delivered a speech ten years ago condemning "liberal democracy," promoting nationalism, and suppressing opposition within the country.

Biden asserted during Friday’s speech, "Now I’ve spent almost 200 hours with the leaders of Europe, heads of state. Know what everyone says to me, virtually, except Orban? As we leave these meetings, they’ve grabbed my arm, pulled me aside and say, he can’t win again — that their country, [their] democracy is at stake."

Biden's Friday night speech was less formal than the State of the Union address and had fewer Republican hecklers.

However, this didn't work to his advantage since he stumbled over his words twice early on in the speech when talking about January 6 and in another instance while discussing with a guest dealing with in vitro fertilization in Alabama.

Biden also stumbled over a line while praising the electoral power of women in America, but managed to recover his thought after a brief pause.

The President will continue his campaign tour tomorrow and visit Atlanta as he heads to the 2020 swing states that helped him win the White House four years ago.

Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Arizona and Nevada as part of a "month of action" to launch the campaign with momentum on their side.

The Biden campaign has planned to spend aggressively on Black, Latino, and Asian media to win the support of the Democratic base.

They also plan to use the upcoming March Madness college basketball tournament to reach young voters who have yet to give serious thought to the approaching presidential battle.

By April 1, the Biden campaign plans to more than triple its staffing in seven battleground states that will likely pick the next president. They also plan to open 100 field offices to bolster their campaign.

Despite a series of disappointing polls and questions about Biden's age, Democratic strategists remain confident that Trump is their best weapon.

They argue that the former president is incapable of winning over independents and swing voters that decide American presidential elections.

Biden campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon stated, “(Trump) has got to expand his base of voters to find new people to be with him and that is not something that he’s shown that he’s really focused on.”

Internet weighs in on President Joe Biden's campaign speech in Pennsylvania

People on Facebook expressed mixed reactions to President Biden attempting to ramp up attacks against Donald Trump and Republicans by hitting the campaign trail with momentum from Thursday's commendable State of the Union speech.

One Facebook user remarked: "He's a joke!"

Another user said: "This is one election that's will seem like a lifetime or will be here in a matter of months. Which ever way we need to be ready for the ends result of what going to happen and to see who our next president will be."

Another person wrote: "Biden is awful." One user commented: "Let’s go Brandon."

"Love how his wife is always there to support him..," another person said. Another user remarked: "U killed it joe."

Finally, this user commented: "Great answer when Biden was asked if he would debate Trump his answer was that it depends on Trump’s behavior. That was a great answer."

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