President Trump talked about the “simple” difference between running against Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton as presidential election rivals.
During an address Friday to the 2020 Council for National Policy Meeting, he claimed Clinton is smarter than Biden but is not as well liked.
“Somebody said, ‘What’s the difference between Clinton and Biden?’ Should I say it? Should I tell you? Well, Clinton is much smarter, but not a likable person. Joe is not nearly as smart, but he is more likable. So, you know, I don’t know. Maybe I’d rather have the smarter person, who cares about personality, right?” the president said to laughs in the room.
Trump beat Clinton, a former secretary of state, senator, and first lady, in the 2016 election.
The president spoke less than a day after Biden delivered his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, which received rave reviews from some political pundits and journalists. For instance, Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace said that Biden’s speech “blew a hole” in the Trump campaign’s claims that the former vice president is frail or senile.
Biden, during his acceptance speech, criticized the president’s character and pledged to lead the country out of a chapter of “darkness” and into his vision of “light.”
The former vice president said at one point, “That’s the job of a president — to represent all of us, not just our base or our party. This is not a partisan moment. This must be an American moment.”
