Read Next: Sailors Face Down Abortion and Job Loss as Discharge Paperwork Delays Force Impossible Life DecisionsĪt issue is a speech Biden gave Thursday night outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that the White House described as being about the "continued battle for the soul of the nation." Before Biden and first lady Jill Biden came on stage, two Marines walked through a doorway and flanked the entrance. But Biden came into office specifically vowing to restore those norms and shield service members from politics. Biden's predecessor, former President Donald Trump, regularly flouted norms meant to protect the military from politics, including placing tanks at the Lincoln Memorial for a major political speech. "And I think we need to recognize that the threat we see here at home is significant.It is not unusual for presidents to surround themselves with the military for a speech, even arguably political ones. "Americans would be very clear-eyed about what they were seeing if they saw it in another country," he said. We've seen a violent insurrection that attempted to overturn a presidential election, and now we're seeing threats of violence in response to efforts to enforce the rule of law," Nyhan told VOA on Wednesday. democracy faces the greatest threat it has seen since we became a full-fledged democracy after the civil rights movement. The stakes are high for Biden's speech, said Brendan Nyhan, a Dartmouth University professor of government and the co-founder of Bright Line Watch, a watchdog group monitoring the status of American democracy. MAGA stands for "Make America Great Again," a slogan Trump popularized in his successful 2016 bid for president.
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He has accused the former president and his supporters of following an "extreme MAGA philosophy" and of choosing "to go backwards, full of anger, violence, hate and division." He has mentioned him sparingly in public since taking office. It was unclear whether Biden would mention Trump by name in his remarks. And let's be thoughtful about the way in which we conduct our politics.' " I think it's appropriate for the president to say, 'Let's step back here, and let's be cautious about what we're risking. Prominent neoconservative political analyst Bill Kristol told VOA that Biden's address should be "not just a political stump speech but really a more profound speech to all Americans. And you know, he doesn't - he believes that is an extreme agenda." "The national ban on abortion is extreme and also is not in line with where a majority of Americans are," she said. Some Republicans have called for new federal legislation that would ban most abortions nationwide. Wade, a landmark 1973 federal abortion ruling, and instead allow states to determine abortion access. In recent days, Biden has been rhetorically battling Republican lawmakers as well as his predecessor, Donald Trump, and has sharply attacked the opposition party's philosophy as "semi-fascism." Jean-Pierre said that agenda includes conservative support for the Supreme Court decision in June to overturn Roe v. So, yeah, the president is going to talk about that. We're talking about an agenda that is not in line with where the majority of Americans are. "This is an opportunity, again, for the president to directly have a conversation with the American people."īut, she said, "We're talking about agendas that are incredibly extreme. "It's not a political speech," she said of the remarks the president delivered outside Philadelphia's Independence Hall, the place where the nation's founders debated and signed the Declaration of Independence and the U.S.
But White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said earlier that this would not be a stump speech. The speech came just months before the November midterm elections that will determine which party controls the nation's main lawmaking bodies.
"For a long time, we've reassured ourselves that American democracy is guaranteed.
President Joe Biden told Americans during a prime-time speech Thursday that "equality and democracy are under assault," and he called on his fellow citizens to fight for the "soul of the nation."
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