Biden says ‘order should prevail’ after school campus protests

Republicans have tried to show the scenes of unrest right into a marketing campaign cudgel, and Biden stated he rejected efforts to make use of the scenario to “score political points.”

“This isn’t a moment for politics,” he stated. “It’s a moment for clarity.”

Despite Biden’s refusal to heed protesters’ calls for to chop off U.S. assist for Israel, Republicans blame Democrats for the dysfunction and have used it as a backdrop for press conferences.

“We need the president of the United States to speak to the issue and say this is wrong,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, stated on Tuesday. “What’s happening on college campuses right now is wrong.”

Johnson visited Columbia with different members of his caucus final week.

Former President Donald Trump, his social gathering’s presumptive nominee, additionally criticized Biden in an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News.

“Biden has to do something,” he stated. “Biden is supposed to be the voice of our country, and it’s certainly not much of a voice. It’s a voice that nobody’s heard.”

He repeated his criticisms on Wednesday throughout a marketing campaign occasion in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

“The radical extremists and far-left agitators are terrorizing college campuses, as you possibly noticed,” Trump stated. “And Biden’s nowhere to be found. He hasn’t said anything.”

Biden will make his personal go to to a school campus on May 19 when he is scheduled to ship the graduation tackle at Morehouse University in Atlanta.