President Joe Biden called the 2024 presidential race, “the weirdest campaign I’ve ever been engaged in,” during a stop at his campaign headquarters in Wilmington, DE, on Saturday.

Vice President Kamala Harris, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, and second gentleman Doug Emhoff cheered the president on during his address, where he did not mention GOP frontrunner Donald Trump by name.

“I’m feeling good about where we are, I really am,” Biden said. He continued:

You know, folks are starting to focus in and the guy we’re running against, he is — he’s not for anything, he’s against everything. And no, I mean it, it’s the weirdest campaign I’ve ever been engaged in, it’s even worse in terms of his behavior than the last time in 2020. And you know, Kamala mentioned there’s so much at stake and you all — this crowd really knows me extremely well. They know me too well, don’t tell everything you know, guys. But all kidding aside, they — I meant what I said back when we announced the first time for president against this guy and we went up to — up to Independence hall and made a speech on democracy and the press kinda thought it was a little bit of an exaggeration, except the American didn’t. The American people get it. They understand what’s going on.

And, so, this is a group of folks assembled in this room are going to be able to say, god willing, that this generation helped save democracy. I mean in the literal sense. And by the way, as I go around the world, which I do a lot with other heads of state because I’ve known them so long and I’m engaged — Madeleine Albright was right; America is the essential nation and they all look to us, as my colleagues know. And every time I leave, not a joke, whether it’s at the G-20, the G-7, wherever they are, they’ll pull me aside one at a time and say, “You’ve got to win, you’ve got to win. We can’t afford — my country is at stake,” meaning their country. So there’s a lot the stake here, folks. We have an enormous obligation, but you know, I think it’s time to finish the job here.

Biden then cited several polls where he said he’s firmly beating Trump.

“But folks, things are — people are beginning to focus and they’re beginning to focus and the polling data, everything is picking up across the board and new Quinnipiac poll, national poll, has us beating him 50-44. Our neighbor state of Pennsylvania Susquehanna poll has us beating 47-39. Another one in Pennsylvania, 42-37. And by the way, in new Hampshire we weren’t on the ballot, we couldn’t campaign there. But guess what? We got 64% of the vote.”

The New Hampshire percentage was among registered Democrats.

CNN reported that Trump is narrowly ahead of Biden nationally, 49-45.

Watch the clip above via Fox News.

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