美国总统乔·拜登周二晚上声称，前总统唐纳德·特朗普“拥抱政治暴力”，并淡化早期投票显示他在2024年的假设复赛中输给了特朗普。
据媒体报道，拜登在马里兰州贝塞斯达的一次竞选筹款活动上说:“他威胁要在美国街头使用美国军队。”
“他又一次拥抱政治暴力，而不是拒绝它。我们不能让这种情况发生，”拜登告诉捐助者。
总统已经准备在明年的大选中可能面对特朗普，他一直专注于一个论点，即特朗普对该国的民主构成威胁，因为他质疑选举的完整性，并发誓要追捕他的政治对手。
特朗普反驳说，拜登是反民主的，因为特朗普面临各种刑事案件，这些案件与1月6日国会大厦的骚乱有关，涉嫌滥用政府机密，并在2016年大选前向一名成人电影女演员支付金钱。
检察官反驳了他们是出于政治动机的说法。特朗普否认所有不法行为，并辩称无罪。
在周二的竞选活动中，总统还打消了特朗普将在大选中击败他的担忧，此前纽约时报/锡耶纳学院(New York Times/Siena College)当天公布的一项民调显示，特朗普和拜登的支持率接近。
其他调查也发现了类似的结果。
相反，拜登强调了民调显示他以微弱优势获胜，然后说现在下结论还为时过早。
“在我看来，现在这并不意味着什么，”他谈到民意调查时说。
2023年12月13日，美国总统乔·拜登在华盛顿特区白宫举行的国家基础设施咨询委员会会议上发表讲话。
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引发特朗普争议的言论周六在新罕布什尔州的集会上拜登警告说，这位前总统将在第二个任期内滥用总统权力，并指出特朗普继续称赞威权领导人。
“特朗普拥抱了他的老朋友弗拉基米尔·普京。特朗普甚至在本周末引用了他的话。这并不奇怪——毕竟，莫斯科和马拉戈之间有很多协议，”拜登说。
“他使用的语言让我们想起了30年代来自德国的语言，”拜登继续说道他称那些反对他的人为“害虫”，这个周末，他又一次谈到我们国家的“血液”被“毒害”。甚至保守的共和党人也公开表态。"
周二在爱荷华州，在他自己的竞选活动中，特朗普再次使用了一些相同的语言拜登提到。
“他们正在毁掉我们的国家，”特朗普在谈到越过边境的移民时说。“这是真的，他们正在摧毁我们国家的血液。这就是他们正在做的。”
最近有人批评他关于未经授权的移民的言论重复了阿道夫·希特勒在第二次世界大战前夕的言论，特朗普回应说，他没有读过希特勒的《我的奋斗》。
“他们不喜欢我这么说——而且我从来没有读过《我的奋斗》。”他们说，“哦，希特勒是这么说的”——用一种非常不同的方式。不，他们来自世界各地。全世界的人，”特朗普周二晚上说。
拜登的竞选搭档、副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯在周二晚些时候出现在MSNBC的“与劳伦斯·奥唐奈的最后一句话”节目中时，谴责了特朗普关于移民的言论。
安东内尔在哈里斯本人是移民之女的背景下问及川普的话。
哈里斯说:“我从小就知道，有些人会以一种非人性化的方式使用他们的声音，这意味着我们大多数人没有任何共同点，而事实上，我们大多数人的共同点比我们的不同点更多。”。
在周二的竞选活动中，拜登提到了特朗普最近告诉福克斯新闻频道的肖恩·哈尼蒂，他不会成为独裁者，“除非第一天”，这样他就可以专注于边境和钻井，当时汉尼提问他是否会利用总统职位进行报复。
正如他在类似的筹款会上一样，拜登称特朗普为“失败的前总统”，他“不会厌倦失败”，因为两人之间的复赛似乎越来越有可能。
“让我说清楚，”拜登继续说道。“我认为唐纳德·特朗普对国家构成了许多威胁。从选择权，到民权，到投票权，到美国在世界上的地位”。
“特朗普构成的最大威胁是对我们民主的威胁，”他补充道。“因为如果我们输了，我们就失去了一切。”
Biden claims Trump 'embraces political violence,' plays down his poor polling
President Joe Biden on Tuesday night claimed former President Donald Trump "embraces political violence" anddownplayed early pollingshowing him losing to Trump in a hypothetical rematch in 2024.
"He's threatened to use the U.S. military on the streets of America," Biden said at a campaign fundraiser in Bethesda, Maryland, according to press pool reports.
"Once again, he embraces political violence instead of rejecting it. We can't let this happen," Biden told donors.
The president, already preparing to potentially face Trump in next year's general election, has focused on an argument that Trump is a threat to the country's democracy because of how he has questioned election integrity and vowed to go after his political opponents.
Trump has countered that it is Biden who is anti-democratic because of the various criminal cases against Trump, related to the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, the alleged misuse of government secrets and money paid to an adult film actress before the 2016 election.
Prosecutors have pushed back on the claim they are politically motivated. Trump denies all wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty.
At the campaign event on Tuesday, the president also brushed off concerns that Trump would beat him in a general election after a New York Times/Siena College poll published that day found Trump and Biden in a close race.
Other surveys have found similar results.
Biden, instead, highlighted polls showing him narrowly winning before saying it's too early to tell.
"Doesn't mean a lot right now, in my opinion," he said of the polling.
Raising Trump's controversial commentsfrom a New Hampshire rally on Saturday, Biden warned the former president would abuse the power of the presidency in a second term and noted that Trump continues to praise authoritarian leaders.
"Trump was embracing his old pal [Vladimir] Putin. Trump even quoted him this weekend. It's no surprise -- after all, there's a lot of agreement between Moscow and Mar-a-Lago," Biden said.
"The language he uses reminds us of the language coming out of Germany in the '30s," Biden continued. "He has called those who oppose him 'vermin' and again this weekend, he talked about the 'blood' of our country being 'poisoned.' Even conservative Republicans have spoken out."
In Iowa on Tuesday, at his own campaign event,Trump again used some of the same languageBiden referred to.
"They're ruining our country," Trump said about migrants crossing the border. "And it's true they're destroying the blood of our country. That's what they're doing."
Reacting to recent criticism that his words over unauthorized immigrants echo those used by Adolft Hitler in the lead-up to World War II, Trump told his crowd he had not read Hitler's "Mein Kampf."
"They don't like it when I said that -- and I never read 'Mein Kampf.' They said, 'Oh, Hitler said that' -- in a much different way. No, they're coming from all over the world. People all over the world," Trump said Tuesday night.
Biden's running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris, condemned Trump's comments on immigrants as she appeared on MSNBC's "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell" later on Tuesday night.
O'Donnell asked about Trump's words in the context of Harris' own background as the daughter of immigrants.
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"I was raised knowing that there will be some people who will use their voice in a way that is meant to dehumanize, meant to suggest that the vast majority of us don't have anything in common, when, in fact, the vast majority of us have more in common than what separates us," Harris said.
At his Tuesday campaign event, Biden brought up Trump recently telling Fox News' Sean Hannity that he wouldn't be a dictator "except for day one," so that he could focus on the border and on drilling, when Hannity asked if he would use the presidency for retribution.
As he has at similar fundraisers, Biden called Trump "a defeated former president" who "can't get tired of losing," as a rematch between the two appears increasingly likely.
"Let me be clear," Biden continued. "I think Donald Trump poses many threats to the country. From the right to choose, to civil rights, to voting rights, to the American standing in the world".
"The greatest threat Trump poses is the threat to our democracy," he added. "Because if we lose, we lose everything."
