Biden will try to echo George Washington by calling Trump a threat to freedom that the US wants to 'dismantle' in the January 6 anniversary speech on TODAY at the site where the Continental Army 'united to fight for democracy'
Joe Biden will call Donald Trump a danger to the US and try to echo George Washington on Friday in a speech marking the third anniversary of January 6.
The president will argue that freedoms are under threat if his predecessor is re-elected in remarks to kick off his 2024 campaign in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania.
He will speak near Valley Forge, where 250 years ago, during a bleak winter, then-General Washington organized the alliance of colonial militias and “united” them to fight for democracy against the British in the Revolutionary War.
Biden will use the birthplace of the US military to accuse Trump of trying to “dismantle and destroy our democracy” by provoking his supporters to riot when he failed to win re-election in 2020.
It is the start of a more aggressive approach by Biden in attacking Trump, who he is trailing in national polls with 11 months until the general election.
The former president, who dominates Republican polls with 10 days left until Iowa, has tried to flip the script on Biden with his campaign, claiming he is the real threat to democracy because he is “waging war on it.”
President Joe Biden will kick off 2024 with a campaign in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, juxtaposing George Washington's winter with his claims that Donald Trump is trying to undermine democracy.
George Washington and the Continental Army spent a bleak winter at Valley Forge 246 years ago, fighting for American democracy during the Revolutionary War
“This Saturday will mark three years since, with the encouragement of Donald Trump, a violent mob breached our nation's Capitol,” Biden campaign manager Julie-Chavez Rodriguez said. It was the first time in the history of our country that a president tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power
On Monday, Biden will go to Charleston, South Carolina, to campaign at the church where a white supremacist gunman opened fire on Black congregants in 2015, killing nine people.
The campaign events come as Biden continues to trail former President Trump in national polls, including a DailyMail.com survey last month that showed the president trailing his predecessor by four points.
His stop there seeks to compare efforts to establish a democracy with what Democrats claim was Trump's attempt to tear it down as his supporters descended on the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. to undo.
Meanwhile, Trump will continue his campaign in Iowa this weekend, with less than two weeks until the nation's first primary.
Instead of touting his record in upbeat events as 2024 begins, Biden plans to guide Americans through some of the country's darkest moments as his team emphasizes the importance of November's results.
Biden on Saturday plans to characterize Trump as a serious threat to the founding principles of the United States.
The president's team pledged that Biden would be “at full strength” in 2024, after a slow start to his re-election campaign last year and criticism from those who say the 81-year-old is no longer mentally or physically fit for office.
Biden and his pundits will campaign fiercely around Jan. 22 to mark the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, after the Supreme Court ruled two years ago to overturn the 50-year-old decision that legalized abortion at the federal level.
Biden on Saturday plans to characterize Trump as a serious threat to the founding principles of the United States.
The president's predecessor, who faces 91 criminal charges related to his efforts to overturn Biden's election victory, has built a commanding lead among his Republican competitors in the primaries. But both Democrats and some Republican candidates argue that Trump will undermine democracy if he wins a second term.
In a conference call with reporters, Biden's campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said, “We're running a campaign as if the fate of our democracy depends on it, because it does.”
In addition to the electron-related cases, Trump also faces three other felony charges.
Biden's first campaign event of the year comes on the three-year anniversary of the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021
Biden will claim that Trump will “dismantle democracy” if he gets another term
The former president and frontrunner of the Republican Party claims that Democrats are actually the ones who want to undermine democracy by using legal systems to prevent him from running for the 2024 elections and winning another term.
“Joe Biden and his allies pose a real and compelling threat to our democracy,” Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles, senior advisers to the Trump campaign, wrote in a memo this week.
They added: “In fact, in a way never before seen in our history, they are waging a war against it.”
The claims come as states try to keep Trump off the ballot, including Colorado and Maine, both of which ruled he is disqualified because he was “involved in an insurrection.”
Colorado Republicans immediately appealed the state's decision to the U.S. Supreme Court last month, claiming Trump was never actually charged with insurrection.
Meanwhile, Trump on Tuesday evening appealed the Maine secretary of state's ruling that bars him from voting in the northeastern state.