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@Mars posted:

Dude, you're talkin sheer fart. I do not curse white people. I'm supporting Biden for President and the last time I checked he was white. The Democratic Party was not backing anyone in Guyana. Jeffries being a Congressman in Brooklyn, took a personal stance and backed the Granger Administration. He gets his support from many Afro Guyanese in Brooklyn and he was representing his constituency as any other Congressman would do. He was not representing the Democratic Party but his own personal political interests. You know nothing about me if you believe that I'm boring a hole in a plate provided by America. I have a deep love for this country and there's nowhere else in this world that I'd rather be presently. My love for this country is the reason why I'd love to see Trump and his band of crooks leave the White House next January. They are wrecking this great nation as we speak. Can anyone truthfully say that America is better off now than when Trump became president? Massive unemployment, a couple hundred thousand people dead from Covid, trillions added in debt, racial strife all over the streets. He's turned America into a shithole country worse than the ones he curses regularly. I don't judge people based on their race like you do. As for being ungrateful, today is the 57th anniversary of MLK's famous "I have a dream" speech. The fight from Civil Rights activists like MLK during the mid sixties is what led to President Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and the Immigration Act in 1965. The Immigration Act removed the discrimination against Indians and other minorities migrating to America. So instead of preaching your putrid brand of race hate every day against African Americans, show some gratefulness and thank a brother for paving the way for your people to prosper in America. And please, do some more reading before you talk trash and you know nothing about American politics. You claim to be a Conservative and you have Bill Clinton as your greatest political hero. You also once stated that the Democrats in America are closer to your brand of Conservative ideology than Republicans. You are one confused clown.

Absolutely agree on Jeffries. Just another politician who proves that all politics is local and will do what it takes to get re-elected.

In addition, the Civil Rights Act led to the Voting Rights Act which removed many hurdles to exercising one's right to vote and the Fair Housing Act which helped to drastically reduce discrimination in renting or owning a property.

Always amazes me the ignorance about the price paid by the previous generations for the society we have today, while not perfect it could be a whole lot worse.

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Athena, last time I checked, this is a Political discussion forum. No one is forcing anyone to support Trump. It's your right to vote for a party of your choice. It's none of your business as to whom I support politically or what country's politicians I prefer to comment on.

There is a lot of resentment towards Trump. I couldn't care less about what his critics think.

Let me remind you though, Biden told a black man that he ain't black if he didn't support the democrat party. That's quite insulting and racist.

Would you vote for a racist person like Biden who acts as if Blacks are his property ? 

1.3 Million Black men voted for Trump last election and that number is expected to rise. Black man are breaking the shackles of the democrat party. 

 

 

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Man Trump called 'my African American' says president has 'white superiority complex'

 
  • Trump singled out Gregory Cheadle at California rally in 2016
  • Cheadle quits Republican party for pursuing ‘pro-white agenda’

 

Gregory Cheadle – a black man who Donald Trump referred to as “my African American” during a rally – has announced he is leaving the Republican party, citing the president’s “white superiority complex”.

The real estate broker and one-time Republican candidate for Congress, who attracted national attention in 2016 after Trump’s comments at a rally in Redding, California, now plans to run as an independent in the House of Representatives next year.

Cheadle, 62, told a radio program the tipping point came when Republicans came to Trump’s defence after he tweeted that four Democratic congresswoman of colour should leave the US and when he attacked Elijah Cummings’ home town of Baltimore.

Although Cheadle refused to describe the president as racist, he said Trump has a “white superiority complex”.

Cheadle told PBS NewsHour on Thursday: “When you look at his appointments for the bench: white, white, white, white, white, white, white. That to me is really damning to everybody else, because no one else gets a chance because he’s thinking that the whites are superior. Period.”

He added: “President Trump is a rich guy who is mired in white privilege to the extreme. Republicans are too sheepish to call him out on anything and they are afraid of losing their positions and losing any power themselves.”

He accused the Republican party of following a “pro-white” agenda and using black people as “political pawns”.

Recalling to PBS the moment Trump pointed at him at the rally in Redding, and said, “Look at my African American over here! Look at him! Are you the greatest?!” Cheadle said he saw it as a joke at the time, but now he sees it differently.

“I’m more critical of it today than I was back then because today I wonder to what extent he said that for political gain or for attention.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us...-superiority-complex

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@Mars posted:

Dude, you're talkin sheer fart. I do not curse white people. I'm supporting Biden for President and the last time I checked he was white. T

Dude, you're talking sheer piss and you are dishonest. You hate white Americans and America equally. Your racist post is enough proof of that. You portrayed a white man selling shyte to a white suburban woman. Shame on you.

The Democratic Party was not backing anyone in Guyana. Jeffries being a Congressman in Brooklyn, took a personal stance and backed the Granger Administration.

Jeffries defended a racist administration in Guyana just because the leadership was black. A most shameless act.

He was defending his mattie. He is one of the highest ranking black members of the Democrat party and he supported and defend a racist Black president of Guyana. This is a known fact. His position could be interpreted as a reflection of the democrat party. His racist and undemocratic position in support a racist and illegal is an insult to all Guyanese. No principled person will support a thug just because a few of his supporters from his base were of the same race. Its was a disgraceful to put it in very mild term.

Guyanese suffered severely under two afro dictators Burnham and Hoyte, one of whom you escaped from.

I'm boring a hole in a plate provided by America.

Yes, you are boring a hole provided by America.You are displaying what old people stated. Boring a hole in America's plate and cussing America and white people. That amount to being ungrateful.

 

You can run but you cannot hide. Your hate for America and white Americans are despicable acts. You ran away from a Black Guyanese dictator and now like a true ungrateful individual, you are cussing America and whites and acting what can be interpreted as worse than supporting the Taliban. Shame on you.

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@Former Member posted:

Dude, you're talkin sheer fart. I do not curse white people. I'm supporting Biden for President and the last time I checked he was white. T

Dude, you're talking sheer piss and you are dishonest. You hate white Americans and America equally. Your racist post is enough proof of that. You portrayed a white man selling shyte to a white suburban woman. Shame on you.

The Democratic Party was not backing anyone in Guyana. Jeffries being a Congressman in Brooklyn, took a personal stance and backed the Granger Administration.

Jeffries defended a racist administration in Guyana just because the leadership was black. A most shameless act.

He was defending his mattie. He is one of the highest ranking black members of the Democrat party and he supported and defend a racist Black president of Guyana. This is a known fact. His position could be interpreted as a reflection of the democrat party. His racist and undemocratic position in support a racist and illegal is an insult to all Guyanese. No principled person will support a thug just because a few from his supporters from his base is of the same race. Its was a disgraceful to put it in very mild term.

I'm boring a hole in a plate provided by America.

Yes, you are boring a hole provided by America.You are displaying what old people stated. Boring a hole in America's plate and cussing America and white people. That amount to being ungrateful.

You can run but you cannot hide. Your hate for America and white Americans are despicable acts. You ran away from a Black Guyanese dictator and now like a true ungrateful individual, you are cussing America and whites and acting worse than the Taliban. Shame on you.

Sheer nonsense from you as usual. Just like Trump, make up lie after lie that can easily be debunked.

I work in an environment where most of my peers are white. I live in the suburbs where the majority of my neighbors are white. I'm friends with many of them and when we have our annual block party, they beg me to play reggae and soca music for them while they eat, drink and dance on the street in a nearby cul de sac. The majority of them are Republicans but I love where I live. If I were to spend the rest of my days living here, I'll die a happy man. When my Portuguese relatives were all flocking to Toronto during the 70's and 80's, my family chose America. We could have settled in either Canada or America but we chose America mainly because I had an opportunity to go to university here. My wife is British and I can easily move to the UK if I want to but I love living in America more than anywhere else in this world. Not supporting the Dictator Trump does not mean that you're anti-American. That's the kind of foolish thinking that morons like you develop when you overdose on Fox News. A meme that I posted shows a salesman trying to sell something to a Trump supporting woman. The fact that it has two white people in the photo means that it's racist and I hate white people? You're seriously delusional. I don't expect your line of argument to make sense anyway since you have a reputation here for being a dunce. Jeffries supported Granger to solidify his own personal political means. It had nothing to do with the official stance from the Democratic Party. Again, you're too much of a dimwit to understand the difference.

Mars

Biden tops Trump in convention speech ratings

https://news.yahoo.com/biden-t...elsen-185313115.html

The television ratings for President Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention are in — and he probably won’t like them.

According to overnight data from Nielsen, Trump’s primetime speech on Thursday night drew a rating of 14.1, which means 14.1 percent of homes in more than 50 major markets around the country tuned in.

Joe Biden, by comparison, drew a 17.5 rating for his acceptance speech at last week’s Democratic National Convention.

The overnight ratings include combined viewership data from the six major U.S. network and cable news channels: ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC and Fox News. They do not include online and streaming viewers.

In terms of viewers, an estimated 23.6 million watched Biden’s acceptance speech, which was 22 minutes long, compared with the 21.6 million who watched Trump’s 70-minute RNC address. Final viewership totals will be released by Nielsen later Friday afternoon.

President Trump and Joe Biden deliver their 2020 acceptance speeches. [Carlos Barria/Reuters, Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
President Trump and Joe Biden deliver their 2020 acceptance speeches. (Carlos Barria/Reuters, Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

While TV ratings were down for both conventions compared with 2016, the Democratic convention drew higher overnight ratings than the GOP in 2020 on each of their four nights. 

The biggest ratings gap came on night three, when Kamala Harris, Biden’s running mate, drew a 16.2 rating for her acceptance speech, compared with the 10.5 rating Vice President Mike Pence drew for his.

Shortly after the overnight numbers were released, the Biden campaign took a dig at the ratings-obsessed president.

“I always forget, does @realDonaldTrump care about his television ratings?” tweeted TJ Ducklo, national press secretary for the Biden campaign. “Or is that not something he cares about? Like, do you think it’ll trigger him that @JoeBiden’s speech got way bigger ratings than his did?”

Earlier Friday, Trump tweeted his thanks for “Great Ratings & Reviews” of his speech.

Mars

Tom Del Beccaro: Democrats panicking about Biden again – here's why

During primaries, panicky Democrats resuscitated Biden's dying candidacy and made him the nominee

With just over two months to go, the presidential election is in full swing. For months, some have claimed Joe Biden will be the winner, just as they did with Hillary Clinton in 2016. With the close of their convention, however, panic among Democrats is spilling out into the open.

Let’s recall that heading into the Democrat primary season of 2019, former Vice President Biden was the presumed nominee. Indeed, in May of 2019, a Brookings Institute headline read: “Why is Joe Biden running away with the Democratic presidential nomination?” It didn’t take long after that, however, for Biden to falter.

Joe Biden did poorly in the Democrat debates and on the campaign trail and soon Sen. Elizabeth Warren was leading in the polls. She fell and then Democrats looked to former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He faltered and then Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., looked like he would take the nomination in February of 2020.

LIZ PEEK: TRUMP MAKES RIVETING CASE FOR REELECTION, SHOWS AMERICA WHAT IT IS IN FOR IF BIDEN WINS

The Democrats then did something unprecedented. They panicked and brokered the nomination in broad daylight, by convincing candidates to drop out of the race, to stop Bernie Sanders from becoming the nominee. Then they resuscitated Biden’s dying candidacy and made him the party nominee.

If we fast forward to today, the Democrats are panicking again, and their panic started right after the end of the Democrat Convention.

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The day after, the leaders of the Democrats’ far left base declared the convention did not go far enough to the left. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said “that the target audience for the Democratic National Convention this week was `white moderates’ and that the Democratic Party could have done more to cater to the party’s base.” She also panned potential moderation in spending by Biden advisers.

Sanders agreed with her by stating “They should have had more progressives speaking.” Mark those words, if Biden loses this fall, AOC and Bernie will say the party didn’t nominate a true believer and that was the cause of their defeat.

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Then Hillary Clinton chimed in.

During the middle of the Republican Convention, Clinton admonished Biden to “not concede under any circumstances.” A major party leader talking of concession is the diametrically opposite of political confidence.

Then it was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s turn to panic.

Pelosi, D-Calif., declared, “out of the blue,” that “I don’t think that there should be any debates,” in a clear attempt to protect Biden from losing to President Trump.

Keep in mind that presidential debates have become a staple of elections since the 1960s. The great Kennedy-Nixon debate set the standard for how presidential elections have been conducted ever since.

So why are the Democrats panicking?

Their convention failed to deliver. Indeed, it looks like their convention scared away Independents. In a poll taken by CBS/YouGov, after the Democrat Convention, President Trump raced to a 10% lead among Independents.

If Biden takes Pelosi’s advice and ducks the debates with Trump, he will be regarded now, and by history, as gutless.

As I have written before for Fox, our parties are so divided, in what I call The Divided Era, that there is little crossover voting between the parties. That dynamic places a premium on major party enthusiasm (another Biden weakness) and how Independents will vote.

If a CBS poll gives Trump that big of a lead, even before the Republican Convention started, the Democrat Party leaders have good reason to panic.

Biden’s polling troubles don’t end there, however.

The latest Rasmussen poll is consistent with the CBS poll.

All of that brings us back to Pelosi stating there should be no debates. She is not alone in that thought on her side of the aisle. Many Democrats know that Biden will not fare well in the debates.

Indeed, no modern campaign has seen a candidate campaign less or be less accessible than Biden or his campaign. So much so, that that lack of accessibility caused Fox’s Chris Wallace to declare “This is the damnedest thing I’ve ever seen,” and that “I don’t think [Biden] can hide from now until Election Day. I just don’t think it’s possible.”

Of course, just over two months ago, Democrat leaders were good with hidin’ Biden. Former DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe said, at that time, “People say all the time, `Oh, we got to get the vice president out of the basement. He’s fine in the basement.” Now, however, headlines are beginning to read “Biden’s lack of a travel plan worries some Democrats.”

If you add it all up, Joe Biden is faltering again. If he takes Pelosi’s advice and ducks the debates with Trump, he will be regarded now, and by history, as gutless. He also would surely lose the election.

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If Biden does debate, as he has insisted he will, he is likely to do damage to his prospects as well. Just as Trump looks energetic during the conventions while Biden doesn’t, Trump will look the same in the debates.

The plain truth is: Biden has never been a good presidential candidate. He is even worse now. The Democrats revived him once, and their panic now indicates they are trying to find a way to do it again.

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@Former Member posted:

This election is locked up. Trump wins.

WHAT?!!!! OK. Thanks for letting us know. My money was on Kanye, but I will reach out and let him know he can camp out in Wyoming a bit longer. I will also reach out to the Biden campaign and let them know they can save their approx. half a billion in ad spend for the next couple of months despite their significant polling lead.

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Michael Moore warns Dems: Trump voters' enthusiasm is 'OFF THE CHARTS!'

Recent polling in battleground states has the liberal filmmaker sounding the alarm

Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore offered a dire warning to Democrats after the conclusion of the Republican Convention, telling the "Resistance" that the level of voter excitement for President Trump far exceeds that for Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

 

"Sorry to have to provide the reality check again, but when CNN polled registered voters in August in just the swing states, Biden and Trump were in a virtual tie. In Minnesota, it’s 47-47. In Michigan, where Biden had a big lead, Trump has closed the gap to 4 points," Moore began a Facebook post on Friday.

"Are you ready for a Trump victory? Are you mentally prepared to be outsmarted by Trump again? Do you find comfort in your certainty that there is no way Trump can win? Are you content with the trust you’ve placed in the DNC to pull this off?"

"Are you ready for a Trump victory? Are you mentally prepared to be outsmarted by Trump again?"

— Michael Moore

The "Fahrenheit 9/11" director chided Biden after the former vice president announced he was going to be visiting swing states following Labor Day including Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Arizona.

BILL MAHER SAYS TRUMP, RNC LEFT HIM FEELING 'VERY NERVOUS' ABOUT BIDEN'S CHANCES

However, as Moore pointed out, his home state of Michigan has yet to be included in Biden's itinerary.

"Sound familiar?" Moore asked in a not-so-subtle jab at Hillary Clinton, who has been accused by supporters of neglecting several swing states on her way to defeat in 2016.

Moore continued, "I’m warning you almost 10 weeks in advance. The enthusiasm level for the 60 million in Trump’s base is OFF THE CHARTS! For Joe, not so much. Don’t leave it to the Democrats to get rid of Trump. YOU have to get rid of Trump. WE have to wake up every day for the next 67 days and make sure each of us are going to get a hundred people out to vote. ACT NOW!"

Earlier this month, the Oscar-winning filmmaker expressed similar concern over the lack of enthusiasm for Biden, telling MSNBC, "I worry because people do need to get excited."

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"Real Time" host Bill Maher also sounded pessimistic about Biden's chances in the upcoming election.

"I am feeling less confident about this -- maybe it's just their convention bump got to me, but I'm feeling less confident than I was a month ago," Maher said Friday. "I feel very nervous, the same way I did four years ago at this time."

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@Locutus posted:

WHAT?!!!! OK. Thanks for letting us know. My money was on Kanye, but I will reach out and let him know he can camp out in Wyoming a bit longer. I will also reach out to the Biden campaign and let them know they can save their approx. half a billion in ad spend for the next couple of months despite their significant polling lead.

Biden is wasting time. He created too many enemies in his 47 years in government.

Bibi Haniffa

Study suggests 2020 polls may be missing 'shy' Trump voters

Republican and Independent voters are more reluctant than Democrats to reveal their preference for president, study found

Republican and independent voters are twice as likely to not reveal their true preference for president in a telephone poll, a study found.

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CloudResearch, an online market research and data collection company, found that 11.7% of Republicans and 10.5% of independents said they wouldn't share their true opinion, while only 5.4% of Democrats said the same.

"That raises the possibility that polls understate support for President Donald Trump," Bloomberg reported Friday.

TRUMP OUTPERFORMING HIS 2016 CAMPAIGN IN KEY BATTLEGROUND STATES, EVEN AS HE TRAILS BIDEN

According to CloudResearch, some survey responders said they thought it would be "dangerous" to express an opinion outside the "current liberal viewpoint."

While the survey was conducted online, inquiries about the results were made via phone interviews.

A voter casts a ballot at a polling station inside the Brooklyn Museum in New York in June 2020. [AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

A voter casts a ballot at a polling station inside the Brooklyn Museum in New York in June 2020. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Participants were asked for their political preference for president, how they felt about sharing that preference in a phone poll, and later whom they actually supported for the office.

CloudResearch explained to Bloomberg that political party affiliation was the sole characteristic that correlated consistently with reluctance to divulge true presidential preference. There were reportedly no correlations with age, race, education or income.

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The research group used two different samples to draw its conclusions. In one control group, 1,000 respondents were evenly divided among Democrats, Republicans and independents. The other included a different set of 1,000 people selected to match the demographics of likely voters, regardless of party.

The findings once again highlight whether "shy" Trump voters were undercounted in polling data prior to the 2016 election, which his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton had been projected to win.

An exhaustive post-mortem published by the American Association for Public Opinion Research found that some Americans who voted for the president did not show their support for him until after the election and that they outnumbered late-revealing Clintonvoters.

The association also explained that while those who admit changing their minds normally break evenly between the Republican and Democratic candidates, people who did so in 2016 voted for Trump by a 16 percentage point margin.

Nevertheless, evidence of a "shy" Trump effect remains inconclusive, and there were limitations to the study.

The public research group theorized that if voters did not want to tell a live interviewer they supported Trump, the president would do worse in live-interview polls than in automated polls -- but he did not.

CloudResearch Co-Chief Executive Officer and Chief Research Officer Leib Litman told Bloomberg that many people were just as distrustful of live calls as automatic calls because the response would be recorded.

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National polls ahead of November have shown Democrat Joe Biden leading Trump in many key swing states, but in recent weeks the president has gained some ground.

According to recent Real Clear Politics averages, Trump is largely outperforming his 2016 benchmarks in some of the states most important to an Electoral College victory with a little more than two months to go until Election Day.

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White House Watch

Biden, Trump In Near Tie

Joe Biden’s lost ground since the close of the Democratic National Convention, and he and President Trump are now running neck-and-neck in the latest Rasmussen Reports’ weekly White House Watch survey.

The new national telephone and online survey finds Biden with 46% support among Likely U.S. Voters to Trump’s 45%. Six percent (6%) prefer some other candidate, while four percent (4%) remain undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

A week ago, Biden led by four points – 48% to 44%. The former vice president has bested Trump in every weekly survey to date, but this week’s 46% is his lowest level of support in any survey. The president has never earned more than 45% of the vote. It remains to be seen if he gets any kind of bounce from the ongoing Republican National Convention.

https://www.rasmussenreports.c...te_house_watch_aug26

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Trump and the Fox News crowd are pushing the fake polls from Rasmussen. Meanwhile they were the least accurate in the last midterm elections. They were off by nearly 10 points.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/08...-pollster/index.html

Trump's favorite pollster was the least accurate in the midterms

Rasmussen's final poll was the least accurate of any of the 32 polls. They had the Republicans ahead nationally by one point. Democrats are currently winning the national House vote by 8.6 points. That's an error of nearly 10 points. 

Mars

Rasmussen calls itself most accurate pollster of 2016

 

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Donald Trump weaves Joe Biden into his false claims about the border wall

By Miriam Valverde August 28, 2020, Source - https://www.politifact.com/fac...bout-joe-biden-and-/

 

Donald Trump
stated on August 27, 2020 in a speech at the RNC:
Says Joe Biden “is even talking about taking the wall down.”

https://static.politifact.com/politifact/rulings/meter-false.jpg

Our ruling

Trump said Biden "is even talking about taking the wall down."

Biden has not said that. Biden opposes construction of barriers at the border, but has not said he would demolish existing structures.

Trump’s claim is inaccurate. We rate it False.

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https://static.politifact.com/CACHE/images/politifact/photos/AP_20241102058661/2e96dc38974d3c4e6d8708f63a8aab93.jpgPresident Donald Trump speaks from the South Lawn of the White House on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention on Aug. 27, 2020, in Washington. (AP)

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  • Biden would not continue the construction of the border barriers. But he would not take down what’s already built.

As he accepted the Republican nomination for reelection, President Donald Trump claimed that Joe Biden’s immigration plan would disadvantage Americans. Speaking from the South Lawn of the White House, Trump also claimed his Democratic opponent would undo one of Trump’s proudest undertakings: the construction of border barriers.

"The Biden plan would eliminate America's borders in the middle of a global pandemic," Trump said Aug. 27. "And he is even talking about taking the wall down. How about that?"

Is that right? No.

Biden does not plan to eliminate American’s borders, and he has not said he would demolish border construction done by the Trump administration. This fact-check will focus on the wall claim.

We asked the White House and Trump’s re-election campaign for evidence that backed Trump’s claim. We didn’t hear back.

RELATED: Fact-checking Donald Trump's 2020 RNC speech

Biden’s stance on border security

Biden has not said he would take down barriers built at the border. What he has said is that he wouldn’t build more of them.

"Trump campaigned on ‘Build that wall.’ Are you willing to tear that wall down?" NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro asked Biden in an interview aired Aug. 6.

"No. There will not be another foot of wall constructed on my administration, No. 1," Biden answered. "No. 2, â€Ķ I'm going to make sure that we have border protection, but it's going to be based on making sure that we use high-tech capacity to deal with it and at the ports of entry. That's where all bad stuff is happening."

Biden’s immigration plan says that most contraband comes into the United States through legal ports of entry and that nearly half of the people who are illegally in the country overstayed a visa, rather than crossed a border illegally. Trump has misallocated resources by focusing on a border wall, Biden argues.

If elected president, Biden says, he would "direct federal resources to smart border enforcement efforts," such as cameras, sensors, large-scale X-ray machines, and fixed towers at and between ports of entry.

"Like every nation, the U.S. has a right and a duty to secure our borders and protect our people against threats," Biden’s plan says. "But we know that immigrants and immigrant communities are not a threat to our security, and the government should never use xenophobia or fear tactics to scare voters for political gain."

Tearing down border barriers also isn’t among the policy recommendations of a task force that Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., appointed to help unify Democrats. In his acceptance speech and in previous speeches Trump has mischaracterized several elements of the task force’s recommendations. The task force called Trump’s border barriers "unnecessary, wasteful, and ineffective," but did not propose taking them down.

It’s worth noting that there’s not much new border wall to take down. Trump’s repeated boasts that he has "built 300 miles of border wall" are wrong. What he’s referring to is mostly the replacement of older barriers with new fences, not new barriers in unprotected areas.

Before Trump took office, the nearly 2,000-mile southern border had 654 miles of primary barriers (the first physical impediment a border crosser may face).

More than three years into Trump’s presidency, that has increased by 5 miles.

RELATED: Donald Trump promised to build a border wall and make Mexico pay for it. That didn’t happen

Our ruling

Trump said Biden "is even talking about taking the wall down."

Biden has not said that. Biden opposes construction of barriers at the border, but has not said he would demolish existing structures.

Trump’s claim is inaccurate.

We rate it False.

FM

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