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Critics on social media dragged President Biden over video

Originally Published by: footage showing what appeared to be a small showing of
supporters greeting the president’s motorcade in the deep blue
city of Atlanta, where he held a fundraising event and delivered
Morehouse College’s commencement speech. Raiders legend and Hall of Famer
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“Crooked Joe Biden – dazed and confused, as usual – shuffles
Biden interrupted by pro- down the short stairs in Atlanta ahead of his day of pandering. He 21,602
alestinian protester at Atlanta
rally ignores questions,” RNC research posted Saturday as Biden
landed in the city.
Trump attends slain NYPD
officer Jonathan Diller's wake: presidential motorcade passes through town but absolutely
a
'Need law and order' “If

nobody cares – did it really pass through town?” RNC Research

Trump raises millions in asked in a follow-up question, accompanied by video footage
Atlanta neighborhood that showing largely empty streets dotted with some people filming
wants to secede violent crime
the motorcade. Biden, Fauci and Butker each deliver
starkly different speeches -- and the
best message gets vilified
Biden held a fundraiser in the expensive Atlanta neighborhood of
Buckhead on Saturday, where he lauded Georgia voters as the reason he won against former President
Trump in 2020.
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“Ifyou ever doubt the power of the vote, say come to Georgia. You are the reason won. GeorgiaI I is the
reason I’m president right now,” Biden told the supporters at the event, AJC reported .

Footage showing the apparent lack of fanfare over Biden’s motorcade sparked criticisms on social media.
Videos circulating online only show short clips of city sidewalks as the president drives by.

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President Biden had a small crowd group of people capturing

his driveby.
Everything Georgia/X

“If presidential motorcade passes through town but absolutely

a
nobody cares – did it really pass through town?” RNC Research
asked.
Everything Georgia/X

Biden’s visit to Atlanta comes after a New York Times poll found
Trump is leading Biden in a majority of key battleground states,
including, Georgia.
Everything Georgia/X

“Biden arrived in Georgia to participate in a campaign event, and his motorcade drove through deep blue
Atlanta. Nobody cared,” one X user named Julia posted .

“Mobs gather in Atlanta to see Joe Biden’s motorcade,” X user Collette Harrington posted tongue in
cheek .

“Haha. Man, can Biden draw a crowd. The only people there are waiting to cross the street,” another user
wrote, mocking the footage .

“​​MASSIVE crowd of almost 4 people line the streets as Biden’s motorcade passes through in
Atlanta,” another critical tweet read .

Biden joined supporters at Mary Mac’s Tea Room in Atlanta on Saturday afternoon before heading to the
Arthur M. Blank Family Office for the fundraiser.

“You all brung me to the dance,” Biden told supporters at the tea room, according to The Atlanta Journal-
“You really made a gigantic difference.

“It’s easy to forget, but don’t forget.”I

President Joe Biden held a fundraiser in the expensive Atlanta neighborhood of Buckhead on Saturday, where he lauded
Georgia voters as the reason he won against former President Trump in 2020.
REUTERS

Criticson social media dragged President Biden over video footage showing what appeared to be a small showing of
supporters greeting the president’s motorcade in Atlanta.
REUTERS

Biden’s trip to Atlanta has also been marked by protests and outrage – before he even landed in A-Town –
when students at Morehouse College sounded off earlier this month that Biden’s commencement speech
at the historically Black college was political.

“The general feeling on the ground is that we don’t want him here,” a student named Malik told WSB-TV in
Atlanta earlier this month when Biden’s speech was announced. “It’s very obvious that we’re being used
to score political points and get more Black votes. It is so obvious that it’s just about the presidential
campaign.”

“We don’t want Biden. We don’t want politics. And we definitely don’t want Biden to come speak politics,”
one student said.

Another remarked, “There’s a lot more other prominent figures right now that can come to our colleges
and universities and speak to us as Morehouse men.”

Biden (R) embraces Marlon Kimpson (C), member of the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations in the
Office of the US Trade Representative, as US Senator Raphael Warnock (L), Democrat of Georgia.
AFP via Getty Images

Students and faculty also held a protest Friday criticizing the U.S.’s handling of the war in Israel ahead of
Biden’s speech.

“Idefinitely understand from a political aspect why he is coming, but from a human and moral level, it

makes no sense for the college to invite him or give him an honorary degree,” Morehouse student Anwar
Karim told Channel 2.

Anti-Israel agitators have carried out protests on college campuses

nationwide since last month. see also
Morehouse’s president warned that if disruptive protests broke out on
campus Sunday, he would shut down commencement proceedings.

“What we won’t allow is disruptive behavior that prevents the

ceremony or services from proceeding, in a manner that those in
attendance can partake and enjoy. So, for example, prolonged
Joe Biden faces
shouting down of the president as he is speaking. I have also made a potentially nightmarish
decision that we will also not ask police to take individuals out of June swoon with his re-
commencement in zip ties,” ​​Morehouse College President David hopes fading
Thomas said last week. “If faced with the choice, will cease the I

ceremonies on the spot we were to reach that position. But this will
if

not be a place where there will be a national photo op of individuals being taken out of the Morehouse
campus in zip ties by the police authorities.”

Biden’s visit to Atlanta comes after a New York Times poll found Trump is leading Biden in a majority of
key battleground states, including, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Arizona.

Trump’s support among Black voters has also surged, sparking shock from CNN last week when a poll
found the 45th president’s support more than doubled to 22% compared to 2020.

Biden has seen a 12% drop in support among Black voters, but still holds a 47-point lead.

“Biden arrived in Georgia to participate in a campaign event, and his motorcade drove through deep blue Atlanta.
Nobody cared,” one X user named Julia posted.
REUTERS

Trump also visited Atlanta last month, and was notably surrounded by supporters during his trip –
including at a Chick-fil-A, where he bought patrons chicken and milkshakes.

He also made a stop for a fundraiser in Buckhead, a neighborhood that tried to secede from Atlanta due
to spiraling crime in recent years.

Dubbed the “Beverly Hills of the South,” residents of the Atlanta district tried to secede from the city in
2021 through last year, as violent crimes such as homicides continued an upward trend, as well as when
vehicle thefts and shoplifting spiked.

The effort to secede received support from some local Republican leaders, and notably received the
backing of Trump, who railed against “RINO” politicians who did not come to the aid of residents
demanding assistance with crime trends.

“What is happening in the City of Atlanta is nothing short of disgraceful. It’s national news and a regional
embarrassment. The good people of Buckhead don’t want to be a part of defunding the police and the
high crime that’s plaguing their communities,” Trump wrote in February 2022. “However, RINOs like
Governor Brian Kemp, the man responsible, along with his puppet master Mitch McConnell, for the loss of
two Senate Seats and 2020 Presidential Vote, Lt. Governor Jeff Duncan, Speaker David Ralston, and
State Senators Butch Miller, Jeff Mullis, and John Albers always talk a big game but they don’t deliver.”

Trump has been tied up in a Manhattan courtroom since last month, facing 34 counts of falsifying
business records.

The case focuses on the prosecution team working to prove Trump falsified business records 34 times to
conceal a $130,000 payment to former pornography star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election
to quiet her claims of an affair with Trump.

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Honest Abe
10 hours ago
Not too long ago, borders were secure, the world was at peace, gas was affordable,
roceries were affordable, mortgage interest rates were 2.5%, and the economic
was outstanding.

Now look at the mess in less than 4 years.

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Michael darnell Morris
1 hour ago
No toilet paper, napkins, and sanitizer, over 500,000 deaths from covid, long foods bank
high unemployment numbers at 6.3%, and added 7.8 trillion to our debt.
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Ivanlustig
1 hour ago
And, will get worse
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jojo
14 hours ago
This humiliating low turn out for Joe just reinforces what the polls show. For certain, the
rofessional polling the DNC pays for must be much worse, albeit more accurate. He just might
dropped by his party as the nominee.
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TomK
13 hours ago
JB, as the democratic president, is just a front to the real powers that control this country.
ight now, JB is NOT going to be the democratic representative in the November
The real powers behind the scenes are presently calculating the when and who
be their nominee in November

The G...
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Frank Lucas
14 hours ago
happens and he steps down it can only happen after the DNC convention and he
If it
ccepts the nomination. If it does the DNC alone chooses a candidate side stepping the
problem. I believe they have 20 days to select a new candidate. Very few people
this little fact. August will be real...
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JFupstate
14 hours ago
I'm shocked to see the president's message that high inflation and low wages is a good thing
resonating with more people.
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Tim C
9 hours ago
If you're really good at politics, you know it's Trump's fault. But if you're really good at
conomics, you know it's Biden's Green New Deal that destroyed American energy and
the price of everything.
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Ramblin' Ma'am
12 hours ago
C'mon man it's the other guys fault! Inflation was under 2% and gas was 2 bucks a gallon
dementia Joe was installed
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