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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden begins the year of the crusade by remembering the Revolutionary War to mark the third anniversary of the fatal insurrection at the U. S. Capitol and visiting the South Carolina church where a white gunman massacred black parishioners, seeking to provide in the deal. For him, under the harshest conditions imaginable, an election could determine the fate of American democracy.
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On Saturday, Biden will travel to near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, where George Washington and the Continental Army spent a bleak winter nearly 250 years ago. There, he’ll decry former President Donald Trump for the riot by a mob of his supporters who overran the Capitol in an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Two days later, the president will visit Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, where nine other people were shot and killed in a white supremacist attack in June 2015.
The fact that Biden is kicking off 2024 by diving into some of the country’s darkest moments, rather than announcing his record, is meant to explain to the electorate what his team sees as the stakes of the November election. his predecessor poses a grave risk to the nation’s founding principles, arguing that Trump, who achieved a sizable lead in the No. 1 Republican presidency, would seek to undermine American democracy if he were to win a second term.
“We’re going on a crusade as if the fate of our democracy depends on it, because it does,” Julie Chavez Rodriguez, director of Biden’s reelection crusade, said on a conference call with reporters.
Trump, who faces 91 criminal charges stemming from his efforts to overturn his loss to Biden and three other criminal cases, says Biden and top Democrats are trying to undermine democracy through the legal formula to thwart his main rival’s campaign.
“Joe Biden and his allies pose a genuine and pressing risk to our democracy,” Trump’s top crusade advisers, Chris LaCivita and Susie Wales, wrote in a memo this week. “In fact, in a way never before seen in our history, they are waging a war opposite to this. “
Biden’s channeling of his private grief and national trauma, in the form of calls to action, has become his political calling in the car. Tragedies have marked the president’s own life, ever since the 1972 car crash that killed his first wife and young daughter. until the death of his son Beau from brain cancer at the age of 46 in 2015.
In 2020, Biden won the White House for the first time promising to heal the “soul of the nation” after saying that seeing hate teams march in Charlottesville, Virginia, with torches and swastikas in 2017 prompted him to run.
Instead of promising to bridge the country’s partisan divisions as he did four years ago, Biden will emphasize that Trump and the main supporters of his “Make America Great Again” motion pose existential threats.
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The president’s re-election crusade has made public Trump’s repeated rhetoric used through Adolf Hitler when he warned that immigrants entering the U. S. illegally “poison the blood of our country,” as well as the former president’s joke that he would seek to serve as dictator. first day of his second term.
“The leading candidate in a U. S. primary is running for president so he can systematically dismantle and destroy our democracy,” said Michael Tyler, communications director for the Biden campaign.
Even if another Republican beats Trump in the GOP primary, Biden’s reelection argues the victor would be similar enough to the former president that the campaign’s themes would change little.
“Whoever wins the Republican nomination of MAGA will have done so by firmly adhering to the excessive top positions seen in recent American history,” Tyler said.
A majority of Americans are concerned about the future of democracy in the upcoming election — though they differ along party lines on whom poses the threat.
Biden’s crusade also vowed that he would be “in full force” to mark the anniversary of Roe v. Wade on Jan. 22. Wade, the Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion nationwide for nearly 50 years, before the High Court overturned the ruling in June. 2022. .
Biden’s team has argued that abortion access and democracy are strongly connected in the upcoming election, building on the president’s warnings about Trump and “MAGA extremists” who helped Democrats defy historical precedent by retaining the Senate and narrowly squandering the House majority to Republicans. in the 2017-2022 midterm exams.
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