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Biden "crosses" Trump: American democracy in danger

2022-09-02 09:55:20Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Biden "crosses" Trump: American democracy in danger

US President Joe Biden called on Americans in a speech Thursday night to speak out against extremism when they go to the polls in November, as he intensified criticism of politicians who support former President Donald Trump.

"Equality and democracy are under attack," President Biden said.

He directly called on moderate Republicans to join forces with Democrats, saying the only goal should be to protect "our democracy, regardless of ideology."

"For a long time, we have had the conviction that American democracy is guaranteed. But it is not like that. We must protect it. Protect him," he said.

President Biden spoke from Philadelphia, the birthplace of American democracy, and the speech is part of a sharp turn on his part as congressional elections approach.

"I came here to the place where it all began to speak openly to the nation about the threats we face. For the strength we have in hand to face these threats. And for the extraordinary future that awaits us if we choose this path", he said.

After devoting most of his attention in 2022 to the country's high inflation and Russian aggression in Ukraine, and after contracting COVID-19 twice over the summer, Mr. Biden has begun in recent days to target Republicans associated with Mr. Trump.

On Thursday night, he took aim at former President Trump's "Make America Great Again" movement and his own predecessor, mentioning him by name, unlike before.

"Former President Trump and the Republicans who support MAGA represent extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic," adding that its forces are determined to take this country backwards.
"Back to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraceptives, no right to marry who you want," he said.
At a fundraiser last week in Maryland, President Biden compared what he called the "extreme philosophy of MAGA" — to a "quasi-fascism."

He said he will not allow the election in the United States to be stolen by those who simply refuse to admit they lost. Mr. Biden's speech reflects a growing urgency to respond to anti-Democratic tendencies among Republicans, as well as the need to prevent a landslide Republican victory in November and build support for a possible re-election bid in 2024, they say. his advisors. On Tuesday, in one of three visits in a week to the political battleground state of Pennsylvania, Mr. Biden hit out at threats against the FBI after a search of Mr. Trump's Florida home, calling them "disgusting ". He returned to the subject on Thursday.

He mocked Republican members of Congress who refused to condemn the January 6 attack on the United States Capitol. Before President Biden's speech, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy accused him of neglecting crime and inflation "for disregarded American workers". Mr. McCarthy plans to give a speech in Mr. Biden's hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, before the president's address.

Elections in jeopardy?

President Biden delivered the speech at Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States were agreed upon. Historians, legal scholars and some elected officials say the outcome of November's election will determine how free elections and commitment to the rule of law are viewed. They say losing the Democratic majority in Congress would not only make Mr. Biden an ineffective president, but could hand control over the certification of the results of the next presidential election to Mr. Trump's supporters, some of whom have never accepted Mr. Biden's victory in 2020 and have vowed to confront him with threats after the loss of former President Trump, one in five election workers surveyed this year said they may leave before the next presidential election. The White House noted that it was "an optimistic speech. It's a speech about what we can achieve as a country, as a democracy."/Voice of America


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