“I’ll be damned — I've been hit a lot. But It's not going to work on me, and I'll be damned if I’m going to walk away and not take this country back,” Biden said on Sunday.

Still, even after Trump’s acquittal, Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin announced a review of Hunter Biden’s business activities. Joe Biden said this narrative is probably not “going to go anywhere” and that he’s worried Trump has gotten “a free pass now on anybody.”

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But he doesn’t see any evidence of Trump’s claims working against him on the campaign trail.

“Look, when you’re in a situation where you still have a majority of the people think that you should have been convicted, that's a hell of a way to start to run,” Biden said of Trump’s reelection bid.

“Politics has gotten too dirty, too mean, too ugly and it's only being inflamed by this president,” the former vice president said. “We not only have to beat him, but we also have to bring along the Democratic Party — not just at the Senate level but in the local races. We can do that.”