Delivering a prime-time speech on Thursday ahead of November’s midterm elections, Mr Biden painted a picture of dark forces and “extreme ideology” working to undermine the “foundations of our democracy”. Taking aim at Mr Trump and his GOP allies, Mr Biden said the very values of “equality and democracy” on which the United States was founded in Philadelphia were now under threat from Mr Trump and his GOP allies party who intend to undo hard-won rights. . “We’re not doing ourselves any favors to pretend otherwise,” Biden said. “Much of what is happening in our country today is not normal.” Taking to Truth Social, his own social media network, Trump blasted Biden for warning Americans about the “extremism” of MAGA Republicans and accused the Democrat of “suffering from late-stage dementia” — a very common attack on his opponent in 2020. “If you look at the words and meaning of Biden’s awkward and angry speech tonight, he threatened America, including the possible use of military force,” Trump wrote, without any basis. “He must be crazy or suffering from terminal dementia!” The one-term president also suggested that “someone needs to explain to Joe Biden, slowly but surely, that MAGA stands for, as strongly as words can, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”, referring to his campaign slogan 2016. “If he doesn’t want to make America great again, which in word, deed and thought he doesn’t, then he certainly shouldn’t be representing the United States of America,” added Trump, who shared (or “re-truth ») an image of him caressing a US flagpole. Biden, whose approval rating has started to rise from a low of 38 percent in July, has been boosted by the Democratic Party passing a major spending bill, the De-Inflation Act, as well as Republican attacks on the right LGBT+ and abortion. and growing unrest around his potential 2024 opponent, Mr. Trump. Having previously referred to his predecessor as a “former guy”, he added during his speech that while not all Republicans were Trump supporters, those who were were “a threat to this country” and too willing to accept violence as a political tool. “It can never be an acceptable tool,” Biden said. “Democracy cannot survive when one side believes there are only two outcomes in an election — they win, or they cheat — and that’s where the MAGA Republicans are today.”
