Biden Slams Trump, Touts Obamacare

For the Monitor

As President Donald Trump prepared to head off to the G-7 summit of the world’s top economic powers, the man who hopes to replace him in the White House was just getting rolling in front of a crowd in Hanover.

“As long as this man is president – and this is no hyperbole – we are in trouble,” former vice president Joe Biden said Friday.

Biden – the front-runner right now in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination – jabbed at the president while speaking at a campaign event at Dartmouth College.

Reacting to Trump’s bizarre comment during a Wednesday news conference with reporters when he said, “I am the chosen one,” Biden imitated the president, saying “I am the savior.”

“If anybody took this administration so far and made a movie about it – it would never happen,” he said. “Do you think anybody would believe it?”

Biden spoke and took questions for well over an hour at a town hall focused on health care, a top issue among Democratic presidential primary voters.

Biden once again endorsed the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, the signature domestic achievement during Biden’s eight years as vice president in former president Barack Obama’s administration.

“We made significant progress. We have to finish the job,” he argued.

Biden is the only top-tier candidate in the Democratic field who doesn’t support a government-run, single-payer Medicare-for-all plan.

“There’s a lot of people running in our party, good people, who want to get rid of Obamacare, starting over with something new. I’m not for that,” he said. “My health care plan sets out in detail how we can protect and build on Obamacare to make sure every American has affordable, quality health care options while at lowest possible health care costs.”