President Joe Biden has not been shy about swinging at his presumptive opponent for November's general election.

On Friday, as he has in his last two public speeches, he hit early and repeatedly to paint an unflattering picture of the person who will presumably stand on the other side of the ticket.

"You know, you're the reason why we're going to win. That's not hyperbole — you're the reason we're gonna win," Biden said, adding that former President Donald Trump "has a different constituency."

"The guy is kicking off his general election campaign down the road, up with Marjorie Taylor Greene," Biden said. "I can tell you a lot about a person by who he keeps company with."

Trump, he said, has been pursuing the support and friendship of authoritarian leaders and right-wing nationalists — Hungary's Viktor Orban on Friday, at Mar-a-Lago; meetings during his presidency with North Korea's Kim Jong Un and Russia's Vladimir Putin; praise for China's Xi Jinping.

"When he says he wants to be a dictator, I believe him," Biden said.

It's been only two days on the campaign trail post-State of the Union, and it appears that Biden's stump speech is all but locked firmly in shape. Like his Thursday night address before Congress and the nation, he spent his evening in Georgia both knocking around Trump and touting his administration's successes — but, this time, with a twist.

As the event was centered around accepting the endorsements of the Collective PAC, the Latino Victory Fund, and the AAPI Victory Fund — political action committees seeking to represent Black, Latino, and Asian American voters, Biden's speech focused less on general successes for all Americans. Rather, he emphasized successes for minority groups found within his administration's policies.

Unemployment, Biden noted, is at a 50-year low — and, he emphasized, sits lower for Black and Latino Americans. 

The rate of employment for Asian Americans, he said, is the highest it's been since 2008, and the racial wealth gap is as small as it's been since the mid-2000s. 

He bragged about the Affordable Care Act's successes and the health insurance benefits it provides to Black and Asian Americans and insisted he would defend it against Republicans seeking to repeal it. He also touted his administration's spending on Historically Black Colleges and Universities — $7 billion in campus improvements, educational grants, and student debt relief.

"And you know why? Because they're just as capable. They just don't have the endowment, and so they don't have the laboratories to train for new high-tech jobs," Biden said. "But now they will, and now they do."

Biden's weekend trip campaigning in swing states is an attempt at hanging on to the states that delivered him and Vice President Kamala Harris to the White House in 2020. Minority voters, in particular, were driving his victory over Trump. However, while he won 9 in 10 of Black voters in 2020, he might have ground to make up in 2024 — polls from both the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the New York Times in recent months have shown that Black voters have drifted away from Biden, even if only slightly. The Journal-Constitution poll, published in January, showed that 58.6% of Black Georgians would support Biden, with 20.4% supporting Trump. October's Times poll showed that 66 percent of Black voters supported Biden, with 23 percent supporting Trump.

Biden also had to make up ground with some Latino supporters. On Thursday, when responding to Republican insistence that he acknowledges the killing of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old woman who was found dead on the University of Georgia campus, Biden said she was "an innocent woman who was killed by an illegal." 

A Venezuelan man who is accused of entering the U.S. illegally has been charged with her murder.

Biden was quickly criticized for using "illegal" as a noun to describe the man, a practice that is criticized for dehumanizing undocumented migrants.

The president apologized for using the term in an interview with MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart on Saturday, saying that he should have described the man as "undocumented."

"Look, when I spoke about the difference between Trump and me, one of the things I talked about in the border was his, the way he talks about vermin, the way he talks about these people polluting the blood," Biden told Capehart. "I talked about what I'm not going to do, what I won't do. I'm not going to treat any, any, any of these people with disrespect."

Pro-Palestinian protestor removed

Early in his speech, Biden paused amid an interruption by a person who appeared to be shouting pro-Palestinian protests at the president. Journalists at the event reported that a protestor calling Biden "Genocide Joe" was removed from the event by security.

The White House press pool reported that the protestor shouted, "Please free Palestine," as he was removed.

"I don't resent his passion," Biden said. "There's a lot of Palestinians who are being unfairly victimized."

Trump rallies in Rome

While Biden's speech weighed in around 21 minutes, Trump's opposing speech — held about 70 minutes' drive away in Rome, Georgia — weighed in at closer to two hours.

Though Biden knocked Trump for his relationships with dictators, Trump knocked Biden for being "the most incompetent" and "the most corrupt" president in the country's history. The State of the Union, he said, was an "angry, dark, hate-filled rant," calling it "the most divisive, partisan, radical and extreme speech ever delivered by a president in that chamber."

As he has done repeatedly, in both speeches and on social media, Trump said that Biden has "weaponized government, weaponized the FBI, weaponized the DOJ. And he's a threat to democracy for other reasons."

But he did extend one olive branch early on in his speech.

"If you're a disillusioned Democrat, of which there are many, I extend an open hand and an open invitation, and I ask you to join us on the noble quest of saving our country," Trump said. "Together, we will turn the page forever on the miserable nightmare of the Biden presidency."