Biden Gives Primetime Political Speech To Address Extremist Threat From Maga Republicans

Biden will travel to Philadelphia for a speech at Independence Hall that the White House is calling “The Soul of the Nation.” Officials provided few details about the actual content of the speech, but the decision to deliver it in the first hour marks a new effort for Biden to follow what he and the White House have described as “MAGA Republicans,” a reference to former President. Trump’s “Make America Great Again” ideology. “The president believes there is an extremist threat to our democracy. The president has been as clear as he can be on that particular piece,” White House press secretary Karin Jean-Pierre told reporters Wednesday. “When we talk about our democracy, when we talk about our freedoms, the way he sees it is that MAGA Republicans are the most energetic part of the Republican Party,” he continued. “This is an extreme threat to our democracy, to our freedom, to our rights. They simply do not respect the rule of law. You’ve heard it from the president. And they’re pursuing an agenda that takes away people’s rights.” Presidents rarely deliver major prime-time speeches, usually only to speak directly to the audience about matters of major national concern. Biden in June gave a speech on gun violence after mass shootings at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, and an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. He also gave one in 2021 to mark the anniversary of the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The decision to air Thursday’s speech in prime time reflects the urgent nature of the threat the White House believes some Republicans pose if they potentially win a majority, with the midterm elections just two months away. “Because he thinks our democracy is at risk,” Jean-Pierre said Wednesday when asked why Biden is giving the speech on time. “The president is not going to hesitate to speak out, to speak out, and it’s very important for him to speak directly to the American people,” he added. Biden in recent weeks has become more assertive in calling out “MAGA Republicans.” At a political rally last week in Maryland, Biden described the movement as “quasi-fascism.” On Tuesday in Pennsylvania, Biden referred to “MAGA Republicans” several times as he invoked the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. “So let me say this to my MAGA Republican friends in Congress: Don’t tell me you support law enforcement if you don’t condemn what happened on the 6th,” Biden said to applause. Some Republicans distance themselves from Trump as Democrats prepare for Biden NotedDC — Classified material increases pressure on Garland Jean-Pierre argued that Republicans themselves are pushing to take rights away from Americans, pointing to the push by some in the GOP for a national law restricting access to abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade earlier this summer. Some Republicans criticized Biden for his comments, arguing that he campaigned on a promise to unite the country and lower the nation’s temperature, but uses inflammatory rhetoric comparing conservatives to fascists. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) announced plans to give a speech of his own before Biden’s. McCarthy will speak from Scranton, Pa., Biden’s hometown, about “what he heard from the American people this summer about rising crime, high inflation and other hardships caused by harmful Democratic policies.”

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