Biden’s 8 p.m. campaign-style rally at Independence Hall will be the second trip he’s made to the swing-state this week.
President Biden is expected to ramp up his attacks on a major part of the electorate — MAGA Republicans — in a primetime address in Philadelphia Thursday evening that comes just 10 weeks before the midterm elections.
“It’s sickening to see the new attacks on the FBI, threatening the life of law enforcement and their families, for simply carrying out the law and doing their job,”In recent weeks, Biden has been trying to frame the November elections as a contest against Republicans who he claims have turned on law enforcement after traditionally running on a law-and-order platform and to emphasize that Democrats are not for defunding the police, despite calls to do just that from some progressive Democratic...
The potentially divisive speech comes after Biden — who came into office promising to unite the nation — likened MAGA supporters to “semi-fascists,” and a new poll found that the political divide has grown so wide under his watch thatWhite nationalists participate in a torchlit march on the grounds of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville in 2017.
At the speech in the City of Brotherly Love, Biden will speak out about the white supremacists who converged on Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 — an attack that he said prompted him to come out of retirement and challenge Trump for the presidency.
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