US President Joe Biden will sound the alarm on Thursday night about “extremist” threats to American democracy from the tumultuous forces of Trumpism, aiming to redefine the November election as part of an unrelenting battle to ” soul of the nation”. Nearly two years after defeating Donald Trump, it’s a repeat of Biden’s 2020 campaign theme, casting the midterm stakes in terms just as dire as those that sent him to the Oval Office. His prime-time speech at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall will outline what he sees as the dangers posed by what he has called “super-MAGA Republicans” to the nation’s system of government, its foreign standing and the way of life of its citizens. Biden’s explicit attempt to marginalize Trump and his “Make America Great Again” followers marks a sharp turnaround for the president, who proclaimed his desire to bring about national unity in his inaugural address. White House officials said it reflected growing concern about Trump’s conservative ideological proposals and 2020 election denial. Biden, who had largely avoided referring to the “former guy” by name during his first year in office, has become increasingly vocal in calling out Trump personally. Now, emboldened by his party’s recent legislative victories and wary of Trump’s return to the headlines, Biden is stepping up his attacks. At a Democratic fundraiser last week, Biden likened the “MAGA philosophy” to “semi-fascism.” In Philadelphia, White House officials said, Biden plans to return to the 2017 white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, which he says led him out of political retirement to challenge Trump. Biden plans to argue that the country faces a similar crossroads in the coming months. “The president believes there is an extremist threat to our democracy,” spokeswoman Karin Jean-Pierre said Wednesday. “It doesn’t stop. It goes on.” Biden’s allies stress that he is not rejecting the entire GOP and will use his remarks to call on traditional Republicans to join him in condemning Trump and his supporters. It’s a balancing act, given that more than 74 million people voted for Trump in 2020. “I respect conservative Republicans,” Biden said last week. “I have no respect for these MAGA Republicans.” House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy rejected any such distinction, accusing the president of trying to “belittle hard-working Americans.” He planned to make a preemptive rebuttal to Biden from Scranton, Pennsylvania, where the president was born. Speaking earlier Thursday on Fox News, McCarthy said Biden was “trying to distract from the destruction he has created in this country.” A senior White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity to preview Biden’s remarks, said the president’s speech was not aimed at one politician or the GOP as a whole, but rather at Trump supporters who rejected the results of the 2020 election and sow doubts. for future competitions. The official said Biden will recognize the importance of political disagreements in a country as diverse as the US, but aims to draw a line at rhetoric and actions that call into question the health of the country’s democracy. The official said Biden aimed to speak “not as a Democratic president, but as the president of a republic.” Larry Diamond, a democracy expert and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, said Trump’s call for attacks on democracy “can be manipulated or seen as partisan. And if you don’t call it out, you’re taking away an important challenge for the defense of democracy”. Even this week, Trump was posting on his beleaguered social media platform about overturning the 2020 election results and holding a new presidential election, which would violate the Constitution. Timothy Naftali, a presidential historian at New York University, said it’s not unusual for a president to have tension with his successor, but it is “unprecedented for a former president to actively try to undermine the U.S. Constitution.” “The challenge for President Biden is to continue with his agenda while still doing what it takes to preserve the Constitution,” Naftali said. “This is not easy.” The White House has sought to keep Biden out of the legal and political maelstrom surrounding the Justice Department’s discovery of classified documents at Trump’s Florida home. But Biden took advantage of some Republicans’ quick condemnation of federal law enforcement. “You can’t be pro-law enforcement and pro-insurgency,” Biden said Tuesday in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. Biden’s appearance Thursday night was promoted as a taxpayer-funded official event, a sign of how the president views defeating Trump’s agenda as much a policy goal as a political one. The major television networks were not expected to broadcast the address live. Biden’s trip to Philadelphia is just one of three in the state in a week, a sign of Pennsylvania’s importance in the midterms, with competitive Senate and governor races. Trump is planning a rally there this weekend. The White House intended the speech to bring together familiar themes: the bipartisan gun and infrastructure legislative victory as proof that democracies “can succeed,” pushing GOP policies on guns and abortion that Biden says do not they are in line with most people’s views. and rejecting efforts to undermine confidence in the nation’s elections or diminish its standing abroad. The challenges have only increased following the turmoil surrounding the 2020 election and the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol. The lies surrounding this presidential race have prompted harassment and death threats against state and local election officials and new restrictions on mail-in voting in Republican-dominated states. County election officials have faced pressure to ban the use of voting equipment, efforts fueled by conspiracy theories that voting machines were somehow manipulated to steal the election. Candidates challenging Trump’s loss have been inspired to run for state and local election seats, promising to restore integrity to a system undermined by false claims. There is no evidence of widespread fraud or manipulation of voting machines. Judges, including those appointed by Trump, have dismissed dozens of lawsuits filed after the election, and Trump’s own attorney general has called the claims bogus. But an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found that about two-thirds of Republicans say they don’t believe Biden was legitimately elected president. This year, election officials face not only the ongoing threat of foreign interference, but also ransomware, politically motivated hackers and insider threats. In the past year, security breaches have been reported at a small number of local election offices in which authorities are investigating whether office staff improperly accessed or provided improper access to sensitive voting technology. —— Associated Press writer Christina A. Cassidy in Atlanta contributed to this report.
title: “Biden To Call Trump His Loyalists Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-10-27” author: “Sharon Rivera”
US President Joe Biden will sound the alarm on Thursday night about “extremist” threats to American democracy from the tumultuous forces of Trumpism, aiming to redefine the November election as part of an unrelenting battle to ” soul of the nation”. Nearly two years after defeating Donald Trump, it’s a repeat of Biden’s 2020 campaign theme, casting the midterm stakes in terms just as dire as those that sent him to the Oval Office. His prime-time speech at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall will outline what he sees as the dangers posed by what he has called “super-MAGA Republicans” to the nation’s system of government, its foreign standing and the way of life of its citizens. Biden’s explicit attempt to marginalize Trump and his “Make America Great Again” followers marks a sharp turnaround for the president, who proclaimed his desire to bring about national unity in his inaugural address. White House officials said it reflected growing concern about Trump’s conservative ideological proposals and 2020 election denial. Biden, who had largely avoided referring to the “former guy” by name during his first year in office, has become increasingly vocal in calling out Trump personally. Now, emboldened by his party’s recent legislative victories and wary of Trump’s return to the headlines, Biden is stepping up his attacks. At a Democratic fundraiser last week, Biden likened the “MAGA philosophy” to “semi-fascism.” In Philadelphia, White House officials said, Biden plans to return to the 2017 white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, which he says led him out of political retirement to challenge Trump. Biden plans to argue that the country faces a similar crossroads in the coming months. “The president believes there is an extremist threat to our democracy,” spokeswoman Karin Jean-Pierre said Wednesday. “It doesn’t stop. It goes on.” Biden’s allies stress that he is not rejecting the entire GOP and will use his remarks to call on traditional Republicans to join him in condemning Trump and his supporters. It’s a balancing act, given that more than 74 million people voted for Trump in 2020. “I respect conservative Republicans,” Biden said last week. “I have no respect for these MAGA Republicans.” House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy rejected any such distinction, accusing the president of trying to “belittle hard-working Americans.” He planned to make a preemptive rebuttal to Biden from Scranton, Pennsylvania, where the president was born. Speaking earlier Thursday on Fox News, McCarthy said Biden was “trying to distract from the destruction he has created in this country.” A senior White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity to preview Biden’s remarks, said the president’s speech was not aimed at one politician or the GOP as a whole, but rather at Trump supporters who rejected the results of the 2020 election and sow doubts. for future competitions. The official said Biden will recognize the importance of political disagreements in a country as diverse as the US, but aims to draw a line at rhetoric and actions that call into question the health of the country’s democracy. The official said Biden aimed to speak “not as a Democratic president, but as the president of a republic.” Larry Diamond, a democracy expert and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, said Trump’s call for attacks on democracy “can be manipulated or seen as partisan. And if you don’t call it out, you’re taking away an important challenge for the defense of democracy”. Even this week, Trump was posting on his beleaguered social media platform about overturning the 2020 election results and holding a new presidential election, which would violate the Constitution. Timothy Naftali, a presidential historian at New York University, said it’s not unusual for a president to have tension with his successor, but it is “unprecedented for a former president to actively try to undermine the U.S. Constitution.” “The challenge for President Biden is to continue with his agenda while still doing what it takes to preserve the Constitution,” Naftali said. “This is not easy.” The White House has sought to keep Biden out of the legal and political maelstrom surrounding the Justice Department’s discovery of classified documents at Trump’s Florida home. But Biden took advantage of some Republicans’ quick condemnation of federal law enforcement. “You can’t be pro-law enforcement and pro-insurgency,” Biden said Tuesday in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. Biden’s appearance Thursday night was promoted as a taxpayer-funded official event, a sign of how the president views defeating Trump’s agenda as much a policy goal as a political one. The major television networks were not expected to broadcast the address live. Biden’s trip to Philadelphia is just one of three in the state in a week, a sign of Pennsylvania’s importance in the midterms, with competitive Senate and governor races. Trump is planning a rally there this weekend. The White House intended the speech to bring together familiar themes: the bipartisan gun and infrastructure legislative victory as proof that democracies “can succeed,” pushing GOP policies on guns and abortion that Biden says do not they are in line with most people’s views. and rejecting efforts to undermine confidence in the nation’s elections or diminish its standing abroad. The challenges have only increased following the turmoil surrounding the 2020 election and the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol. The lies surrounding this presidential race have prompted harassment and death threats against state and local election officials and new restrictions on mail-in voting in Republican-dominated states. County election officials have faced pressure to ban the use of voting equipment, efforts fueled by conspiracy theories that voting machines were somehow manipulated to steal the election. Candidates challenging Trump’s loss have been inspired to run for state and local election seats, promising to restore integrity to a system undermined by false claims. There is no evidence of widespread fraud or manipulation of voting machines. Judges, including those appointed by Trump, have dismissed dozens of lawsuits filed after the election, and Trump’s own attorney general has called the claims bogus. But an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found that about two-thirds of Republicans say they don’t believe Biden was legitimately elected president. This year, election officials face not only the ongoing threat of foreign interference, but also ransomware, politically motivated hackers and insider threats. In the past year, security breaches have been reported at a small number of local election offices in which authorities are investigating whether office staff improperly accessed or provided improper access to sensitive voting technology. —— Associated Press writer Christina A. Cassidy in Atlanta contributed to this report.
title: “Biden To Call Trump His Loyalists Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-03” author: “David Rodriguez”
US President Joe Biden will sound the alarm on Thursday night about “extremist” threats to American democracy from the tumultuous forces of Trumpism, aiming to redefine the November election as part of an unrelenting battle to ” soul of the nation”. Nearly two years after defeating Donald Trump, it’s a repeat of Biden’s 2020 campaign theme, casting the midterm stakes in terms just as dire as those that sent him to the Oval Office. His prime-time speech at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall will outline what he sees as the dangers posed by what he has called “super-MAGA Republicans” to the nation’s system of government, its foreign standing and the way of life of its citizens. Biden’s explicit attempt to marginalize Trump and his “Make America Great Again” followers marks a sharp turnaround for the president, who proclaimed his desire to bring about national unity in his inaugural address. White House officials said it reflected growing concern about Trump’s conservative ideological proposals and 2020 election denial. Biden, who had largely avoided referring to the “former guy” by name during his first year in office, has become increasingly vocal in calling out Trump personally. Now, emboldened by his party’s recent legislative victories and wary of Trump’s return to the headlines, Biden is stepping up his attacks. At a Democratic fundraiser last week, Biden likened the “MAGA philosophy” to “semi-fascism.” In Philadelphia, White House officials said, Biden plans to return to the 2017 white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, which he says led him out of political retirement to challenge Trump. Biden plans to argue that the country faces a similar crossroads in the coming months. “The president believes there is an extremist threat to our democracy,” spokeswoman Karin Jean-Pierre said Wednesday. “It doesn’t stop. It goes on.” Biden’s allies stress that he is not rejecting the entire GOP and will use his remarks to call on traditional Republicans to join him in condemning Trump and his supporters. It’s a balancing act, given that more than 74 million people voted for Trump in 2020. “I respect conservative Republicans,” Biden said last week. “I have no respect for these MAGA Republicans.” House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy rejected any such distinction, accusing the president of trying to “belittle hard-working Americans.” He planned to make a preemptive rebuttal to Biden from Scranton, Pennsylvania, where the president was born. Speaking earlier Thursday on Fox News, McCarthy said Biden was “trying to distract from the destruction he has created in this country.” A senior White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity to preview Biden’s remarks, said the president’s speech was not aimed at one politician or the GOP as a whole, but rather at Trump supporters who rejected the results of the 2020 election and sow doubts. for future competitions. The official said Biden will recognize the importance of political disagreements in a country as diverse as the US, but aims to draw a line at rhetoric and actions that call into question the health of the country’s democracy. The official said Biden aimed to speak “not as a Democratic president, but as the president of a republic.” Larry Diamond, a democracy expert and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, said Trump’s call for attacks on democracy “can be manipulated or seen as partisan. And if you don’t call it out, you’re taking away an important challenge for the defense of democracy”. Even this week, Trump was posting on his beleaguered social media platform about overturning the 2020 election results and holding a new presidential election, which would violate the Constitution. Timothy Naftali, a presidential historian at New York University, said it’s not unusual for a president to have tension with his successor, but it is “unprecedented for a former president to actively try to undermine the U.S. Constitution.” “The challenge for President Biden is to continue with his agenda while still doing what it takes to preserve the Constitution,” Naftali said. “This is not easy.” The White House has sought to keep Biden out of the legal and political maelstrom surrounding the Justice Department’s discovery of classified documents at Trump’s Florida home. But Biden took advantage of some Republicans’ quick condemnation of federal law enforcement. “You can’t be pro-law enforcement and pro-insurgency,” Biden said Tuesday in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. Biden’s appearance Thursday night was promoted as a taxpayer-funded official event, a sign of how the president views defeating Trump’s agenda as much a policy goal as a political one. The major television networks were not expected to broadcast the address live. Biden’s trip to Philadelphia is just one of three in the state in a week, a sign of Pennsylvania’s importance in the midterms, with competitive Senate and governor races. Trump is planning a rally there this weekend. The White House intended the speech to bring together familiar themes: the bipartisan gun and infrastructure legislative victory as proof that democracies “can succeed,” pushing GOP policies on guns and abortion that Biden says do not they are in line with most people’s views. and rejecting efforts to undermine confidence in the nation’s elections or diminish its standing abroad. The challenges have only increased following the turmoil surrounding the 2020 election and the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol. The lies surrounding this presidential race have prompted harassment and death threats against state and local election officials and new restrictions on mail-in voting in Republican-dominated states. County election officials have faced pressure to ban the use of voting equipment, efforts fueled by conspiracy theories that voting machines were somehow manipulated to steal the election. Candidates challenging Trump’s loss have been inspired to run for state and local election seats, promising to restore integrity to a system undermined by false claims. There is no evidence of widespread fraud or manipulation of voting machines. Judges, including those appointed by Trump, have dismissed dozens of lawsuits filed after the election, and Trump’s own attorney general has called the claims bogus. But an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found that about two-thirds of Republicans say they don’t believe Biden was legitimately elected president. This year, election officials face not only the ongoing threat of foreign interference, but also ransomware, politically motivated hackers and insider threats. In the past year, security breaches have been reported at a small number of local election offices in which authorities are investigating whether office staff improperly accessed or provided improper access to sensitive voting technology. —— Associated Press writer Christina A. Cassidy in Atlanta contributed to this report.
title: “Biden To Call Trump His Loyalists Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-26” author: “Marion Pickens”
US President Joe Biden will sound the alarm on Thursday night about “extremist” threats to American democracy from the tumultuous forces of Trumpism, aiming to redefine the November election as part of an unrelenting battle to ” soul of the nation”. Nearly two years after defeating Donald Trump, it’s a repeat of Biden’s 2020 campaign theme, casting the midterm stakes in terms just as dire as those that sent him to the Oval Office. His prime-time speech at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall will outline what he sees as the dangers posed by what he has called “super-MAGA Republicans” to the nation’s system of government, its foreign standing and the way of life of its citizens. Biden’s explicit attempt to marginalize Trump and his “Make America Great Again” followers marks a sharp turnaround for the president, who proclaimed his desire to bring about national unity in his inaugural address. White House officials said it reflected growing concern about Trump’s conservative ideological proposals and 2020 election denial. Biden, who had largely avoided referring to the “former guy” by name during his first year in office, has become increasingly vocal in calling out Trump personally. Now, emboldened by his party’s recent legislative victories and wary of Trump’s return to the headlines, Biden is stepping up his attacks. At a Democratic fundraiser last week, Biden likened the “MAGA philosophy” to “semi-fascism.” In Philadelphia, White House officials said, Biden plans to return to the 2017 white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, which he says led him out of political retirement to challenge Trump. Biden plans to argue that the country faces a similar crossroads in the coming months. “The president believes there is an extremist threat to our democracy,” spokeswoman Karin Jean-Pierre said Wednesday. “It doesn’t stop. It goes on.” Biden’s allies stress that he is not rejecting the entire GOP and will use his remarks to call on traditional Republicans to join him in condemning Trump and his supporters. It’s a balancing act, given that more than 74 million people voted for Trump in 2020. “I respect conservative Republicans,” Biden said last week. “I have no respect for these MAGA Republicans.” House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy rejected any such distinction, accusing the president of trying to “belittle hard-working Americans.” He planned to make a preemptive rebuttal to Biden from Scranton, Pennsylvania, where the president was born. Speaking earlier Thursday on Fox News, McCarthy said Biden was “trying to distract from the destruction he has created in this country.” A senior White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity to preview Biden’s remarks, said the president’s speech was not aimed at one politician or the GOP as a whole, but rather at Trump supporters who rejected the results of the 2020 election and sow doubts. for future competitions. The official said Biden will recognize the importance of political disagreements in a country as diverse as the US, but aims to draw a line at rhetoric and actions that call into question the health of the country’s democracy. The official said Biden aimed to speak “not as a Democratic president, but as the president of a republic.” Larry Diamond, a democracy expert and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, said Trump’s call for attacks on democracy “can be manipulated or seen as partisan. And if you don’t call it out, you’re taking away an important challenge for the defense of democracy”. Even this week, Trump was posting on his beleaguered social media platform about overturning the 2020 election results and holding a new presidential election, which would violate the Constitution. Timothy Naftali, a presidential historian at New York University, said it’s not unusual for a president to have tension with his successor, but it is “unprecedented for a former president to actively try to undermine the U.S. Constitution.” “The challenge for President Biden is to continue with his agenda while still doing what it takes to preserve the Constitution,” Naftali said. “This is not easy.” The White House has sought to keep Biden out of the legal and political maelstrom surrounding the Justice Department’s discovery of classified documents at Trump’s Florida home. But Biden took advantage of some Republicans’ quick condemnation of federal law enforcement. “You can’t be pro-law enforcement and pro-insurgency,” Biden said Tuesday in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. Biden’s appearance Thursday night was promoted as a taxpayer-funded official event, a sign of how the president views defeating Trump’s agenda as much a policy goal as a political one. The major television networks were not expected to broadcast the address live. Biden’s trip to Philadelphia is just one of three in the state in a week, a sign of Pennsylvania’s importance in the midterms, with competitive Senate and governor races. Trump is planning a rally there this weekend. The White House intended the speech to bring together familiar themes: the bipartisan gun and infrastructure legislative victory as proof that democracies “can succeed,” pushing GOP policies on guns and abortion that Biden says do not they are in line with most people’s views. and rejecting efforts to undermine confidence in the nation’s elections or diminish its standing abroad. The challenges have only increased following the turmoil surrounding the 2020 election and the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol. The lies surrounding this presidential race have prompted harassment and death threats against state and local election officials and new restrictions on mail-in voting in Republican-dominated states. County election officials have faced pressure to ban the use of voting equipment, efforts fueled by conspiracy theories that voting machines were somehow manipulated to steal the election. Candidates challenging Trump’s loss have been inspired to run for state and local election seats, promising to restore integrity to a system undermined by false claims. There is no evidence of widespread fraud or manipulation of voting machines. Judges, including those appointed by Trump, have dismissed dozens of lawsuits filed after the election, and Trump’s own attorney general has called the claims bogus. But an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found that about two-thirds of Republicans say they don’t believe Biden was legitimately elected president. This year, election officials face not only the ongoing threat of foreign interference, but also ransomware, politically motivated hackers and insider threats. In the past year, security breaches have been reported at a small number of local election offices in which authorities are investigating whether office staff improperly accessed or provided improper access to sensitive voting technology. —— Associated Press writer Christina A. Cassidy in Atlanta contributed to this report.
