Great speech by the President!

Biden delivered a warning that American democracy is under assault from election deniers who are running for office at all levels as he tries to make defending democracy a top issue in next week’s midterm elections.

“This intimidation, this violence against Democrats, Republicans and non-partisan officials just doing their jobs, is the consequence of lies told for power and profit, lies of conspiracy and malice, lies repeated over and over to generate a cycle of anger, hate, vitriol and even violence,” Biden said.

“In this moment, we have to confront those lies with the truth, the very future of our nation depends on it.

”The speech – a political event hosted by the DNC, not the White House – underscored the points Biden has been making for weeks since a prime time speech in Philadelphia. That address, which covered many of the same topics that the president touched on tonight, was criticized by Republicans and others for being too political for an official White House event.

The setting of the speech near Capitol Hill is meant to reference the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol building intended to interrupt the certification of Biden’s win.

Advisers said ahead of the speech that Biden felt that it would be important for him to directly condemn these kinds of threats and acts of violence. 

Tonight he spoke directly to election deniers, in an effort to counter, in part, Republican elected officials and candidates who have openly said they may refuse to accept the results of the upcoming election next week.
 

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