Deccan Chronicle

Trump calls Biden a ‘low-IQ’ individual

Trump asserts he will win in November polls

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Manchester, Aug. 29: US President Donald Trump on Friday insulted his Democratic challenger Joe Biden as “low-IQ” and barely conscious in a New Hampshire speech reinforcin­g his strategy of painting himself as the defender of the country against socialist mayhem.

The speech, filled with hyperbolic and inaccurate descriptio­ns of life under the Democrats, followed Trump’s White House address to the Republican convention late Thursday where he warned that “no one will be safe in Biden’s America.” Trump told the crowd assembled at the airport in Manchester, New Hampshire, that he was sure of victory on November 3.

“Does anyone have any doubt?” he asked to a chorus of support.

“I will have lost to a low-IQ individual. I don’t want that. ‘Sleepy Joe,’ I don’t want it,” Trump said of the former vice president and longtime senator. “The guy doesn't know he’s alive.” Much as he did Thursday at the White House, Trump claimed to be singlehand­edly protecting the country from Democratic anarchists.

And he again said that the coronaviru­s, which has killed more than 1,80,000 Americans already, was under control. “Hopefully we’re at the end,” he said.

The difference in New Hampshire, where he hosted a scaled-down version of his trademark preCoronav­irus rallies, was that Trump was able to cut free with ad-libs and even more personal attacks on his rival.

“We are all that stand between the American people and the left wing mob,” he said. “If you want to save democracy from the mob, then you must vote to defeat an extremely poor candidate.”To cheers and laughter, Trump, 74, described 77-year-old Biden as “weak” and “the worst candidate ever put up by the Democratic party.”As he has before, Trump claimed falsely that Biden, a lifelong Catholic, is “against God.” —

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