Biden visits key city in swing state as Trump rails against him at courthouse

President Joe Biden and Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail this week, but while taking very different detours — one to handle sensitive presidential tasks and the other to appear before a criminal jury.

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.

His expected general election foe, Trump, was back in court Thursday after a Wednesday spent campaigning. Trump addressed reporters Thursday by calling the criminal hush money trial a “ridiculous show trial” and a “Biden trial.”