{"id":2358179,"date":"2024-10-22T19:56:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T23:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-encourages-voters-to-politically-lock-trump-up-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-22T19:59:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T23:59:53","slug":"biden-encourages-voters-to-politically-lock-trump-up-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-encourages-voters-to-politically-lock-trump-up-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden encourages voters to &#8216;politically lock&#8217; Trump up &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-encourages-voters-to-politically-lock-trump-up-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2358179&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>During a visit to the New \u2062Hampshire Democratic Party headquarters, President\u2064 Joe Biden made \u2064a playfully charged remark suggesting that former President Donald Trump should be &#8220;locked up,&#8221; quickly clarifying that he meant\u2062 &#8220;politically lock him up.&#8221; This\u200c statement was made while Biden was encouraging party volunteers\u200d to support their candidates in the upcoming elections. He\u2064 highlighted the importance of political bipartisanship, contrasting current Republicans with those of the past, and expressed his commitment to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">reducing prescription drug costs achieved<\/a> \u2062through the Inflation\u2062 Reduction Act.<\/p>\n<p>Biden also critiqued Trump&#8217;s vague health care &#8220;concepts,&#8221; \u200chighlighting the success of the\u200b Affordable Care Act and the financial relief \u200bit provides\u2064 to seniors. Sharing the stage with \u2062Sen. Bernie Sanders, Biden&#8217;s remarks were aimed at bolstering support from liberal Democrats as \u2062the election approached. \u200dMeanwhile, Sanders praised the administration&#8217;s\u2062 efforts to combat pharmaceutical industry greed, emphasizing that\u2064 seniors will benefit from lower \u200bcosts and Medicare&#8217;s new negotiating\u200b power \u200cfor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-you-need-to-know-about-trumps-latest-drug-pricing-moves\/\" title=\"What You Need To Know About Trump\u2019s Latest Drug Pricing Moves\">drug prices<\/a>. \u2063This event occurred one day after Vice President Kamala Harris \u200csimilarly reached out to moderate GOP members disillusioned with Trump.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Biden encourages voters to &lsquo;politically lock&rsquo; Trump up<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1842828\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden<\/a> quipped former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a> should be &ldquo;locked up&rdquo; before correcting himself to say &ldquo;politically.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Biden made the comment during a stop at the New Hampshire Democratic Party&rsquo;s headquarters in Concord where staff and volunteers are trying to elect the party&rsquo;s candidates up and down the ticket in the Nov. 5 election.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got to lock him up,&rdquo; Biden said Tuesday. &ldquo;Politically lock him up. Lock him out. That&rsquo;s what we have to do.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Moments earlier, Biden had been at NHTI,&nbsp;Concord&rsquo;s community college, where he had underscored the importance of political comity and bipartisanship.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve gotta get back to the days where you actually can talk to the other team,&rdquo; Biden told the crowd. &ldquo;This is not your father&rsquo;s Republican Party.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Biden&rsquo;s speech underscored his work reducing the cost of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/drugs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>prescription drugs<\/a>, but he did go off-script at least once more to emphasize bipartisanship, citing the eulogy he delivered at segregationist South Carolina Republican Sen. Strom Thurmond&rsquo;s funeral in 2003 as an example.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Even by the time he left, he had the most racially diverse staff in America,&rdquo; Biden said of Thurmond. &ldquo;My generic point is people change, but these guys just keep getting worse. They mean what they say.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>When Biden returned to his script, he did amplify a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hhs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Health and Human Services Department<\/a> report published Tuesday that found almost 1.5 million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/medicare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Medicare<\/a> enrollees saved $1 billion on prescription drugs during the first six months of 2024 because of the Inflation Reduction Act&rsquo;s<strong> <\/strong>out-of-pocket drug price cap and criticized Trump for having &ldquo;concepts of a plan&rdquo; regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/healthcare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>healthcare<\/a> policy. Trump said he had &ldquo;concepts of a plan&rdquo; during his only debate with Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Kamala Harris<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not letting my Irish get the best of me, but my predecessor, the distinguished former president, he wants to replace the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/obamacare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Affordable Care Act <\/a>with what he calls, he says he prefers a concept of a plan,&rdquo; Biden said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve heard that concept of a plan now for almost eight years. A concept of a plan. What the hell is a concept of a? He has no concept of anything.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Despite Biden&rsquo;s address being considered an official event, the president appeared alongside socialist Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bernie-sanders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Bernie Sanders<\/a> (I-VT) in what has been interpreted as an appeal to liberal Democrats two weeks before Election Day. It was scheduled one day after Harris campaigned with former Wyoming Republican Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/liz-cheney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Liz Cheney<\/a> in her own appeal to members of the GOP who do not like Trump as she attempts to counter a loss of support among <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/african-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>black<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/latinos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Latino<\/a> men.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders&rsquo;s remarks were preoccupied with policy as opposed to the election, but he did praise Biden and Harris for &ldquo;having the courage to be the first administration in the history of this country to stand up to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/pharmaceutical-industry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>pharmaceutical industry<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Under the leadership of President Biden and Vice President Harris, we are making significant progress in taking on the greed of the pharmaceutical industry and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/editor-daily-rundown-biden-to-deliver-forceful-speech-to-congress-about-lowering-prescription-drug-prices\/\" title=\"Editor Daily Rundown: Biden To Deliver \u2018Forceful\u2019 Speech To Congress About Lowering Prescription Drug Prices\">lowering prescription drug prices<\/a> in our country,&rdquo; the senator said. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Today, no senior in America is paying over $35 a month for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/insulin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>insulin<\/a>,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;Beginning next year, no senior in America will pay over $2000 a year for prescription drugs, no matter how many drugs they need. And Medicare, despite the fierce opposition of pharma, is for the first time in history negotiating with the drug companies to lower the price of some of the most expensive drugs in America.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Harris has been seeking to distance herself from her more liberal policy record, including positions she held as recently as her 2020 Democratic presidential campaign, in addition to Biden as voters tell pollsters they do not understand what she stands for. She is not expected to stump with the president again before Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview with NBC conducted during Biden&rsquo;s trip to New Hampshire, Harris told the news outlet that she would not be drawn on hypotheticals when asked whether she would pardon Trump if she is inaugurated next January.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not going to get into those hypotheticals,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;Let me tell you what will help us move on: I get elected president of the United States.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During Biden&rsquo;s stop at the NHDP&rsquo;s headquarters, he also told the audience, &ldquo;We must, we must, we must win.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This guy is a danger to the Republic,&rdquo; the president said before referring to his late son. &ldquo;I ran because Beau knows, and you know in your hearts, if Trump wins, the nation changes.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1842828\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1842828\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden jokes about &#8216;politically locking&#8217; Trump up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2652,"featured_media":2358181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/biden-new-hampshire-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[3620,5894,3634],"class_list":["post-2358179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-biden","tag-politics","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/biden-new-hampshire-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2358179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2358181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2358179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2358179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2358179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}