US President Joe Biden will visit Pennsylvania and deliver a speech to mark the 3rd anniversary of the January 6 storming of the Capitol. As his first on-site action this year, he will visit a battleground state and launch a full-fledged presidential campaign, bringing up the theory of a threat to democracy aimed at former Donald Trump, who has been criticized for inciting political violence through his recent series of strong remarks.
According to the White House on the 3rd (local time), President Biden will visit Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the 5th and then deliver a speech at Valley Forge the next day to mark the 3rd anniversary of the January 6 Capitol invasion. Valley Forge is a symbolic location of the Revolutionary War, where George Washington, the first U.S. president, established a winter camp in 1777 to battle the British army.
It is reported that President Biden will point out former President Trump as a ‘threat to democracy’ in his speech and appeal for support. Julie Chavez Rodriguez, head of the Biden presidential campaign, said, “Trump’s threat to American democracy is becoming increasingly serious,” and added, “We are campaigning with the fate of democracy at stake.”
As the Republican Party enters the presidential primary race starting with the Iowa caucuses on the 15th, President Biden is also entering a full-fledged presidential election system by highlighting his confrontational structure with former President Trump. President Biden has criticized former President Trump as a threat to democracy even in 2022, ahead of the midterm elections.
Movements to win back the votes of key supporters such as blacks, women, and young people, who led the decline in President Biden’s approval rating, are also expected to begin in earnest. On the 8th, President Biden plans to visit a church in Charleston, South Carolina, where nine believers were killed in a shooting by a white supremacist in 2015, and deliver a speech. This is a move to highlight black human rights and voting rights in a situation where former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, who is expected to cause a sensation in the Republican primary, faced controversy after failing to mention slavery as the cause of the Civil War.
Following her visit to South Carolina on the 6th, Vice President Kamala Harris will also visit Wisconsin, another battleground state, on the 22nd to deliver a speech commemorating the 51st anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, which guaranteed women’s right to abortion as a constitutional right. President Biden, who has fallen behind former President Trump in various public opinion polls due to stagnant approval ratings and whose re-election prospects have been flagged, is said to begin a full-fledged election campaign by recruiting thousands of campaign workers, focusing on all battleground states.
The New York Times analyzed, “President Biden’s presidential campaign is trying to define this presidential election as an existential fight to save me from an opponent who poses a threat to democracy.”
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Source: Donga
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