In a speech that comprised some of his strongest criticisms of the MAGA movement and his predecessor in the Oval Office to date, President Joe Biden warned that Donald Trump is a “danger to the nation.”
“Democracy and equality are under attack.” We do ourselves no favors by pretending otherwise,’ Biden said at the beginning of his speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
He specifically mentioned Trump, criticizing him for falsely claiming that the 2020 election was rigged and castigating Trump’s supporters.
To thunderous cheers from his fans, Biden said that “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represented radicalism that challenges the fundamental underpinnings of our nation.”
There’s no doubt that Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans are dominating, driving, and intimidating the Republican party today, he said, adding that he doesn’t believe every Republican is “extreme” or a danger.
And it is a danger to our nation, he said.
He chastised them for rejecting his presidency.
Republicans in the MAGA party do not uphold the Constitution. They didn’t respect the law, according to them. They failed to acknowledge the people’s will, he said. The results of a free election were rejected by them.
Biden stated, “You can’t love your nation just when you win.”
He also committed to protect democracy.
“I won’t sit idly by while the will of the American people is reversed by ludicrous conspiracy theories and flimsy evidence,” she said. I won’t watch as elections in our nation are rigged by those who just won’t admit defeat, he remarked.
“As your president, I will fight for our democracy with all I have, and I’m asking every American to stand with me,” he said.
The White House announced in advance that Biden wouldn’t be making a political statement. However, he also targeted Republicans who are trying to seize control of Congress in the next midterm elections as well as Trump, who is considering challenging Biden in 2024.
Two Marines walked out in front of him to stand at attention before Biden’s entry, showing that he had taken the trappings of the president with him. He was the stage actor for “Hail to the Chief.” He was joined on the journey by Jill Biden.
However, he was also accosted by demonstrators, and noises such as sirens, screaming, and someone using a bullhorn often cut off his remarks.
Even the loudness was addressed by the president, who said, “Notwithstanding the people you hear on the other side, they have a right to be obnoxious.” It is a democracy here.
He said, “Good manners is not something they’ve ever suffered from.”
President Joe Biden declared Donald Trump is a ‘threat to the country’ in a speech that contained his harshest rhetoric to date about his predecessor in the Oval Office and the MAGA movement
President Joe Bideen used his speech to to take direct aim at the Republican Party and, specifically, the supporters of former President Donald Trump (above)
First lady Jill Biden accompanied President Joe Biden to Philadelphia for his speech
Naomi Biden and her fiance Peter Neal, who are getting married in the White House in November, flew with the president and first lady to Philadelphia for President Biden’s speech
As President Joe Biden speaks with Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf after landing at Philadelphia International Airport, First Lady Jill Biden hugs a welcomer.
To illustrate his argument, Biden spoke in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, the location where the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were discussed and accepted by America’s founding fathers.
Trump, on the other hand, continues to be a force to be feared inside the Republican Party, exerting influence during national primaries when his MAGA followers have the power to make or break a candidate.
Trump’s performance in those contests has been uneven; although he defeated his chief target, Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, in her primary in August, other Republicans who supported his impeachment have since won their respective primaries.
And now, there are murmurs of concern coming from those in the GOP leadership who believe that the FBI investigation into whether Trump stole sensitive information from the White House may have an impact on their vote in November.
But Trump continues to have supporters. On Saturday, the former president will be in Pennsylvania for a rally in support of the state’s Senate and governor candidates in Wilkes-Barre.
Prior to Biden’s speech, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy delivered a stern warning to voters from Biden’s hometown of Scranton.
The omnipresent McCarthy said, “Winter is coming.”
He said that “families are hardly able to make ends meet.” The expense of energy and electricity is eating into family finances. Every day, merely to pay the bills, citizens must make difficult decisions.
McCarthy said, “You know, more than 20 million American homes, or about one in every six families, are behind on their utility payments.
One of the top issues on voters’ minds is the high cost of food and petrol. Early this year, inflation reached record highs; now, it is beginning to decline. The recent drop in gas prices has also fueled Democratic hopes that voters won’t vent their resentment and aggravation on them at the polls.
For the midterm elections, Democratic hopes are growing. According to a new Wall Street Journal survey released on Thursday, the party has gained support from independent voters, and Americans’ opinions of President Biden have improved recently.
During his campaign for the Democrats, Biden has been focusing on Trump supporters.
At a fundraiser for Democrats in August, the president accused Trump and “radical” Republicans of “semi-fascism.”
About 100 affluent contributors listened as Biden said, “What we’re witnessing today is either the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA mentality.” “It’s not just Trump; it’s the whole mindset that supports it. I’m going to say it’s like semi-fascism,” the speaker said.
Trump and the MAGA Republicans, according to Biden, are “destroying America.”
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy delivered a prebuttal to Joe Biden’s address to the nation on Thursday – visiting the president’s hometown of Scranton to do so
Biden has said he was compelled to run for president after the Unite the Right rally at Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017 that led to a clash between far-right marchers and counter-protesters
President Joe Biden has decried the January 6th insurrection on the Capitol, where Trump supporters tried to stop the certification of the 2020 election; on the first anniversary of the riot, Biden said the country is in a battle for its soul
Biden began his 2020 presidential campaign in Philadelphia in a May 2019 speech.
And he has said he was compelled to run for president after the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., where a clash between white supremacists and counter-protesters left three dead and dozens injured.
He’s kept up his ‘soul of democracy’ argument throughout the last campaign and into his first years in the presidency.
On the first anniversary of the January 6th insurrection on the Capitol, Biden said the country is in a battle for its soul.
‘I said it many times and it’s no more true or real than when we think about the events of January 6th: We are in a battle for the soul of America. A battle that, by the grace of God and the goodness and gracious — and greatness of this nation, we will win,’ Biden said in remarks in the Capitol building.
President Biden spoke outside of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, the site where the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were debated and adopted by America’s founding fathers