PHILADELPHIA — President Joe Biden will deliver a speech in Philadelphia on Thursday as part of a newly aggressive swing hammering “MAGA Republicans” as he argues that democracy is at stake, again, in the upcoming midterm elections.
The 8 p.m. EDT speech in front of Independence Hall comes as Biden has increasingly attacked Republicans allied with former President Donald Trump, saying they pose a threat to democracy, American values, and the rule of law. He’s aiming to cast November’s elections not just a referendum on his tenure, but a choice between Democrats and GOP candidates who still embrace Trump.
”Let me say this to my MAGA Republican friends in Congress: Don’t tell me you support law enforcement if you won’t condemn what happened on the 6th,” he said in a speech Tuesday in Wilkes-Barre, referring to Trump supporters and the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Last week in Maryland he accused the GOP of embracing “semi-fascism” and that Trump and “MAGA Republicans” have chosen “anger, violence, hate and division.”
