Biden was in North Carolina on Thursday to address supporters in the coastal town of Wilmington, which has the same name as the Delaware city where he has permanent residence. But he was courting North Carolinians, not his fellow Delawarians, as he and his campaign aides continued insisting he could win the Tar Heel State in November.

Former President Donald Trump‘s campaign rebuked President Joe Biden’s Thursday address, where he denounced college protests against Israel. Karoline Leavitt, national press secretary for the Trump campaign,

Speaking from the Roosevelt Room, Biden praised both the right to free speech and the rule of law as “fundamental American principles” and urged both be upheld and respected. “We are not an authoritarian nation where we silence people or squash dissent,