| − | During his 2020 campaign launch, candidate Joe Biden blasted then President Donald Trump for his response in 2017 related to the conflict over preservation of historic monuments located in Charlottesville, NC. as being racist. In a speech Biden claimed that Trump, while discussing 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 defer / transfer his lifelong racism to the Republican candidate and opponent.<ref>''The Week'', Biden calls Trump the most 'openly racist' president in American history, https://theweek.com/speedreads/852943/biden-calls-trump-most-openly-racist-president-american-history, July 16, 2019</ref> | + | During his 2020 Presidential campaign, candidate Biden repeatedly blasted his opponent, President Donald J. Trump as being a racist. He openly criticized Trump for his alleged "racist" response in 2017, related to the conflict over preservation of historic monuments located in Charlottesville, NC. In a speech Biden claimed that Trump, while discussing 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 defer / transfer his lifelong racism to the Republican candidate and opponent.<ref>''The Week'', Biden calls Trump the most 'openly racist' president in American history, https://theweek.com/speedreads/852943/biden-calls-trump-most-openly-racist-president-american-history, July 16, 2019</ref> |