President Joe Biden recently informed a church congregation that world leaders come up and beg him to beat former President Donald Trump with existential urgency, telling him “You’ve got to win!”
The President attended three campaign events in South Carolina over the weekend, where Democrats will hold their first sanctioned primary.
During his speech at Brookland Baptist Church in Columbia, South Carolina Saturday, Biden ripped Trump over a variety of democracy-related issues.
The president also related a new and updated gloss on the familiar theme of world leaders commiserating with him about what a disaster Trump is. He says now that those leaders beg him to beat Trump in this election, and tell him — of a Trump victory — “We can’t let that happen again!”:
“And, folks, it’s important, not just for the African American community but for every community in this country. It’s about who we are. It’s about what — think about it — how the world looks at us.
I’ve been doing foreign policy for a long, long time. I was a chairman of those committees and the like. And that’s why Barack asked me be on his ticket. And I know every one of those heads of state, and I’ve known them for a while.
And every meeting I go to internationally, I — as they’re walking out — this is the God’s truth; I can say this in front of the press — virtually every one of them pull me aside and say, “You’ve got to win! We can’t let that happen again. You can’t let that happen again. You can’t let that happen again!”
Folks, this is about a — the campaign is a lot bigger than me, you, and all of us. It’s about who we are as a country.
And, by the way, you know, what we — we’re — the thing about us is we believe in those basic principles. We don’t always practice them as a nation, but we — we do believe in honesty and decency. We do believe that people should be treated with respect. We don’t live up to it. We don’t live up to it all the time, but we don’t walk away from it.”
