US President Joe Biden tonight began his campaign for the 2024 election year. In his speech in Pennsylvania, he attacked his challenger Donald Trump. He said, among other things, that democracy and fundamental freedoms are threatened if Trump regains power.
– He wants to sacrifice our democracy and put himself in power, says Biden during the speech.
With a day to go until the third anniversary of the storming of the Capitol, Biden spent most of his speech attacking former President Trump.
– Three years ago we saw it with our own eyes, the brutal violence, said the president during his speech.
– He wants to sacrifice our democracy and put himself in a position of power, he continued.
Is democracy still sacred to America, Biden asked rhetorically, then went on to directly attack Representative Trump for over half an hour.
– Trump did not call them criminals. He called them patriots, Biden said, mentioning Trump’s name with disgust.
– Who does he think he is? he wondered, mentioning a series of extreme proposals that Trump has aired during his time in the White House.
The president also harshly criticized Trump for not distancing himself from the “political violence”.
– Political violence is never, ever acceptable in the United States, said Biden.
Trump has a tailwind
On Monday, he travels on to Charleston, South Carolina. There, he will give a speech at Mother Emanuel Church, where nine black people were shot dead in 2015 in a racist hate crime. In the church, Biden is expected to warn of the threat he considers Donald Trump and the extremism of the so-called Maga Republicans to be.
Biden sees Trump as his likely opponent in the November election, despite the many lawsuits pending against the former president.
But Donald Trump has tailwind and seemingly energy. He is holding dual political rallies in Iowa on both Friday and Saturday. Then the references to the 6 January attack are expected to be fundamentally different.
The Capitol attack can be linked to nine deaths. Over 700 charges have been filed and more than 450 prison sentences have been handed down, according to the AP. Donald Trump has promised pardon many of the convicts if he becomes president again.