Biden blasted for D-Day speech critics say resembles Reagan's: 'Why would he do this?'

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President Biden was criticized by conservatives Friday over a speech at France's Pointe du Hoc marking the anniversary of D-Day that they said closely resembled a speech former President Reagan delivered there 40 years ago.

"Unreal," Young Americans for Liberty posted on X on Friday. "It appears that Biden's D-Day speech is just a paraphrase of Reagan's D-Day speech."

"Joe Biden essentially plagiarized Ronald Reagan’s famous 1984 speech at Pointe du Hoc today in Normandy," OutKick Founder Clay Travis posted on X. "Watch these clips side by side. Wow."

"Biden camp tries to make Biden sound like Reagan," former Wisconsin GOP Gov. Scott Walker posted on X. "But he wasn’t a great communicator just because of the words he said. He was a great communicator because he believed what he said and he made us believe it too. Joe Biden will never be as great a leader as Ronald Reagan!"

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Walker went on to say in another post, "Biden had to drop out of the presidential race 37 years ago for this kind of plagiarism. He should drop out again."

"Why would he do this?" former Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen posted on X. "Why invite a direct comparison with Reagan with whom no president could ever compete in telling this story, much less one as inarticulate as Biden?"

"Joe Biden: