Posted on 08/30/2022 6:10:44 AM PDT by Red Badger
President Joe Biden plans to deliver a prime-time speech this week about how America’s “rights and freedoms are still under attack,” returning to the core message of his 2020 campaign as Americans are getting ready to vote in the November midterm elections.
A White House official said Thursday's address at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia would focus on “the continued battle for the soul of the nation” and show how the president sees the central argument of his 2020 candidacy remains as salient as ever with the midterm elections coming into clearer focus.
The president will lay out how America’s standing in the world and its democracy are at stake, the official said. Biden will highlight what he sees as progress over the past two years to protect our democracy, but note that rights and freedoms remain at risk.
“He will make clear who is fighting for those rights, fighting for those freedoms, and fighting for our democracy,” the official said.
Biden will deliver the speech outside Independence Hall, another echo of his 2020 candidacy, which began with a rally in Philadelphia. In that campaign, Biden repeatedly drew upon the message of not just the nation’s Founding Fathers but other great leaders in highlighting how he viewed then-President Donald Trump as someone who would risk changing the character of the nation if given another term in office. He later drew on Abraham Lincoln with a major speech at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and Franklin Roosevelt in Warm Springs, Georgia, in the closing weeks of the 2020 campaign.
Thursday's speech comes as Biden is ramping up his travel schedule in the closing months of the midterm elections. The event in Philadelphia will be his third in the battleground state in the span of one week. Biden on Tuesday intends to discuss his plan for public safety and will contrast that with what he will say is an “extreme MAGA agenda” from congressional Republicans that “is a threat to the rule of law.”
While it’s not yet clear how much Biden will invoke his predecessor this week, he and his advisers have made clear that they think the former president’s grip on the GOP has boosted Democrats’ chances of protecting congressional majorities this fall.
Here are the signs Republicans' hopes for a 'red wave' are receding ahead of the 2022 elections Last week, in remarks at a Democratic National Committee rally in Maryland, Biden said that “MAGA Republicans don’t just threaten our personal rights and economic security, they’re a threat to our very democracy.”
“They refuse to accept the will of the people. They embrace — political violence. They don’t believe in democracy,” he said. “This is why, in this moment, those of you who love this country — Democrats, independents, mainstream Republicans — we must be stronger, more determined, and more committed to saving America than the MAGA Republicans are to destroying America.”
On Monday, Republicans dismissed the president's upcoming speech.
“Biden has pitted neighbors against each other, labeled half of Americans as fascist, and tarnished any idea of his promise of ‘unity.’ Families are left with a recession, high gas prices, and a nation on the wrong track,” Republican National Committee spokeswoman Emma Vaughn said in an email statement.
should be interesting.
Here comes the Biden BS!
He’s warning about the “threat” of Trump because people vote for Trump?
How is a vote a threat? Isn’t a vote, and then the majority wins, the very essence of democracy?
And wouldn’t cheating during the vote, with phony pre-filled mail in harvested ballots, programed machine-counts, and boxes of votes “found” be the real threat to democracy?
This is so patently backwards!
“Republicans pose a threat to our stolen Democracy.”
Given the problems his own kids have I don’t think this creep knows much about souls.
Which nation is he talking about? China? Ukraine?
100% projection.
biden is signaling the fbi to run the midterm false flag
Trump wanted to talk about a nation wide Pandemic and the nets said no. They are giving this evil prick a prime time campaign ad saying the nation is in peril if we have voter integrity laws and vote MAGA. It’s just outrages. The GOPe will sit there and take this.
This is a campaign speech. Either start legal proceedings for equal time or strip FCC protections from the networks.
The only speech he should give is one in which he concedes.
The only speech he should give is one in which he RESIGNS!....................
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Joe is not that great at giving speeches these days. Maybe he should get Hunter to give a speech about morality and ethics.
God forgive me, but I hope he falls over on camera and croaks.
“100% projection”.
That’s it.
If we are lucky, his drug cocktail will fail in the first 10 minutes and they have to end the event early as be becomes a mumbling mess on live TV.
You’re right. There will be one.
Remember "pandemic of the unvaccinated" and "we're (who is this 'we', btw) losing our patience"? I do.
You said it, but we’re all thinking it.
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