During his 2020 campaign launch, Biden blasted then President Donald Trump for his 2017 Charlottesville response and in a recent immigration speech said the president, while describing immigrants, "repeatedly invokes racist invective". Trump has insisted that his tweets were "not at all" racist. Biden tweeted, "There has never been a President in American history who has been so openly racist and divisive as this man" in an attempt to transfer his lifelong racism to the Republican candidate Donald J. Trump.
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During his 2020 campaign launch, Biden blasted then President Donald Trump for his response in 2017 related to the conflict over preservation of historic monuments located in Charlottesville, NC. In an speech Biden claimed that Trump, while describing immigrants, "repeatedly invokes racist invective". Biden tweeted, "There has never been a President in American history who has been so openly racist and divisive as this man", in an attempt to transfer his lifelong racism to the Republican candidate and opponent Donald J. Trump.