Biden to call Trump a ‘danger to democracy’ who plans to ‘dismantle’ the U.S. in first major campaign speech on January 6 anniversary
- President Biden will begin 2024 campaigning in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
- It falls on the three-year anniversary of the attacks on the Capitol on January 6, 2021
- Followed by a campaign event on Monday at the Charleston church where nine people were killed in a shooting in 2015
Joe Biden is finally hitting the road in full force when he returns from his vacation in St. Croix, kicking off the New Year's swing on Saturday with a speech near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to mark the three-year anniversary of January 6. attack on the Capitol.
The president invokes the Revolutionary War with the location of remarks in which he will accuse Donald Trump of trying to “dismantle and destroy our democracy” by provoking his supporters to riot when he failed to win re-election in 2020.
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 Valley Forge Speech is the famous location where George Washington and the Continental Army spent a winter 246 years ago.
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
Biden's 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 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.”
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
In addition to the electron-related cases, Trump also faces three other felony charges.
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.
It comes as states are trying to keep Trump off the ballot, including Colorado and Maine, both of which stipulate he is disqualified for being “involved in an insurrection.”