Biden Condemns Trump as Dire Threat to Democracy in a Blistering Speech

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Biden Condemns Trump as Dire Threat to Democracy in a Blistering Speech
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President Biden on Friday delivered a ferocious condemnation of Donald J. Trump, his likely 2024 opponent, warning in searing language that the former president had directed an insurrection and would aim to undo the nation’s bedrock democracy if he returned to power.

On the eve of the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by Mr. Trump’s supporters, Mr. Biden framed the coming election as a choice between a candidate devoted to upholding America’s centuries-old ideals and a chaos agent willing to discard them for his personal benefit.

“There’s no confusion about who Trump is or what he intends to do,” Mr. Biden warned in a speech at a community college not far from Valley Forge in Pennsylvania, where George Washington commanded troops during the Revolutionary War. Exhorting supporters to prepare to vote this fall, he said: “We all know who Donald Trump is. The question is: Who are we?”

In an intensely personal address that at one point nearly led Mr. Biden to curse Mr. Trump by name, the president compared his rival to foreign autocrats who rule by fiat and lies. He said Mr. Trump had failed the basic test of American leaders, to trust the people to choose their elected officials and abide by their decisions.

“We must be clear,” Mr. Biden said. “Democracy is on the ballot. Your freedom is on the ballot.”

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Boy, would that sound less hollow if the dems were not actively trying to cancel primaries.

Pray tell, say more.

Well, you see, I'm a sheep and can't really think on my own, and so when I was told that Biden not debating is actually cancelling the primaries, well, you know, I just started to parrot it because that's my job.

Cancel primaries? Sounds like a huge load of BS. I don't suppose you have a source?

Add New Hampshire to the list of states showing DNC election interference along with Tennessee, North Carolina.

I get the frustration people have with NH always going 1st. However, SC was pushed 1st, specifically bc of how Biden performed there last election.

It's crazy how obviously racist their justification for the NC move is too. Black people are apparently interchangeable, and a black person in NC is just like a black person in NY, Detroit, LA, Chicago, or Texas. They couldn't possibly have different perspectives or interests, after all, they are black.

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