1 week Ago By Rick Pearson
Making his second fundraising trip to Chicago in a month, President Joe Biden on Wednesday sought to remind voters of the chaos created by his predecessor and warned that the nation’s biggest threat is Donald Trump’s return to the White House. “The bad news is, he means what he says. Unless you think I’m kidding, just think back to the 6th of January,” Biden said, referring to the .
“But look, chaos is nothing new for Trump. His presidency was chaos,” Biden continued during a 16-minute speech before nearly 80 people inside a meeting room at the Palmer House hotel in the Loop. “Trump is trying to make the country forget about the dark and unsettling things that he did when he was president.
Well, we’re not going to let him forget.” Chicago, where Biden is expected to be formally renominated for president at the , has become a reliable ATM for Biden’s presidential campaign. Vice President Kamala Harris also is set to speak at a Chicago-area fundraising event on May 16.
An estimate of how much money was raised Wednesday was not immediately available. On his March 8 trip, Biden raised an estimated $2.5 million.
During his speech Wednesday, Biden portrayed the U.S. as a nation that had moved significantly ahead from Trump’s White House days when Trump attempted to dismiss the potential severity of the COVID-19 outbreak and he suggested people inject themselves with bleach.
“The bleach, he didn’t inject in his body. He put it in his hair,” Biden joked..
