Former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday said President Trump’s leadership is based on fear, and that it reminds him of George Wallace, the former Alabama governor who supported segregation.
“No president has ever led by fear. Not Lincoln. Not Roosevelt. Not Kennedy. Not Reagan,” Biden said during a rally in in Orlando, Fla., according to CNN. “This president is more like George Wallace than George Washington.”
{mosads}Biden added that “Democrats have to choose hope over fear” and “unity over division” in this November’s midterm elections.
“We have to choose our allies over our enemies. We have to choose truth over lies,” he said. “We have to choose a brighter future for Americans over this desperate grip of the darkest elements of our past in our society.”
Biden’s comments came at a Democratic campaign rally for Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum and Sen. Bill Nelson just two weeks before the midterms.
CNN noted that Biden also criticized Trump for his increasingly hostile rhetoric about immigration.
He told the news network after a rally in Jacksonville this week that Trump is making it sound like a migrant caravan full of people escaping violence in Central America was “breaking through the border.”
“The caravan is 2,000 miles away. He’s making it sound like they’re breaking through the border. This is hysteria on his part,” Biden said.
Biden has repeatedly criticized Trump throughout his presidency. He said earlier this month at a campaign rally in Kentucky that the president was “trashing American values” in the way he talks about people.