President Joe Biden on Monday opened the fall campaign season with a series of pointed warnings aimed at contrasting the continuing danger to US democracy from former president Donald Trump and his “Maga Republican” supporters with the Democratic Party’s more optimistic vision for America.
The president arrived at the Henry Maier Festival Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for a speech the White House had billed as a celebration of the US Labor Day holiday and “the dignity of American workers” and spent enough time glad-handing supporters who’d queued up for photographs to put him roughly an hour behind schedule when he took to the iconic blue lectern adorned with the presidential seal.
