Joe Biden’s solemn warning and concern. The American president was this Thursday, September 1 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the east of the country, where the declaration of independence and the American Constitution were written. With 68 days to go until the midterm elections, he talks about the threats to American democracy.
Joe Biden arguably hadn’t been this offensive since the one-year anniversary of the assault on the Capitol last January, reports our correspondent in Washington, Guillaume Naudin. With the elections for the majority in Congress and for key positions in several states just over two months away, the president is returning to the campaign by tackling head-on the supporters presented as extremists of the Make America Great Again and Donald Trump. For Joe Biden, they are dangerous adversaries for the country.
” Blind loyalty to a single leader and a willingness to engage in political violence are fatal to democracy, he asserted. For a long time we thought that American democracy is guaranteed, but it is not. We must defend it, protect it, stand up for it, each and every one of us. »
All, this includes moderate Republicans, still in the majority according to Joe Biden among the voters of the party now dominated by Donald Trump and his supporters. It is by mobilizing these moderate Republicans, alongside the Democratic electorate, that the president and his followers hope to be able to maintain their narrow majority in November.
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Democrats start dreaming of a feat
Representatives of the radical right applaud anger. They feed on chaos. They don’t live in the light of truth but in the shadow of lies “, chanted the 79-year-old president again.
Joe Biden, who held his first presidential candidate meeting in Philadelphia, also knows that Pennsylvania may hold the key to the November legislative elections. And therefore the rest of his mandate.
According to a poll released Thursday by the wall street journal, if the mid-term legislative elections were held today, 47% of voters would vote Democrat, and 44% Republican. The right still had a 5-point lead in March. The Democrats begin to dream of a feat during this election which renews the entire House of Representatives and a third of the Senate, and which is traditionally unfavorable to the party represented in the White House.
donald trumpin an enigmatic reaction, posted Thursday on his social network Truth an image of Joe Biden brandishing both fists in this striking backdrop, flanking it with a photo of himself kissing an American flag.
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(and with AFP)