President Biden claimed Tuesday that former President Donald Trump would believe in climate change if he visited Las Vegas “in his bare feet.”
“Trump says he doesn’t believe climate change is real. Maybe he should step out here in Vegas where it’s 120 degrees in his bare feet,” Biden said before chuckling at his own remark.The gaffe-prone incumbent spoke when it was nearly 110 degrees in Las Vegas.
Trump, 78, had his shoes knocked off Saturday during an assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally when Secret Service agents rushed to shield him after his ear was grazed by a bullet. , “I don’t think science knows, actually” if the use of fossil fuels is causing global temperatures to increase.Biden is on a two-day tour of Las Vegas as he tries to reverse Trump’s lead in swing-state Nevada, which the Democrat carried in 2020.— including 20 House members and one senator — to drop his bid for a second term in response to concerns about his cognitive fitness following his confused debate performance on June 27.