President Biden on Friday delivered a ferocious condemnation of Donald J. Trump, his likely 2024 opponent, warning in searing language that the former president had directed an insurrection and would aim to undo the nation’s bedrock democracy if he returned to power.
On the eve of the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by Mr. Trump’s supporters, Mr. Biden framed the coming election as a choice between a candidate devoted to upholding America’s centuries-old ideals and a chaos agent willing to discard them for his personal benefit.
“There’s no confusion about who Trump is or what he intends to do,” Mr. Biden warned in a speech at a community college not far from Valley Forge in Pennsylvania, where George Washington commanded troops during the Revolutionary War. Exhorting supporters to prepare to vote this fall, he said: “We all know who Donald Trump is. The question is: Who are we?”
In an intensely personal address that at one point nearly led Mr. Biden to curse Mr. Trump by name, the president compared his rival to foreign autocrats who rule by fiat and lies. He said Mr. Trump had failed the basic test of American leaders, to trust the people to choose their elected officials and abide by their decisions.
“We must be clear,” Mr. Biden said. “Democracy is on the ballot. Your freedom is on the ballot.”
Cancel primaries? Sounds like a huge load of BS. I don’t suppose you have a source?
It was the RNC that canceled primaries in 2020, forcing all the other not-Trump GOP candidates to drop out, but I guess that guy conveniently forgot all about that.
Primaries are run by that party’s national convention, both of them, and are bound only by their own rules as to where and when they run primaries. If they determine that no other challenger can possibly win in a given state, they are legally allowed to not hold that primary, because doing so does not directly deprive a voter of their opportunity to vote for a candidate to office. It only deprives the voters of CHOOSING their candidate for that office. But the RNC and DNC can legally run whoever they want.
This is exactly what the RNC did in 2020, cancelling a handful of GOP primaries in red states so that Trump would be the sole GOP candidate and they’d save some coin:
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/461553-rnc-spokeswoman-on-cancellation-of-2020-gop-primaries-this-is-not-abnormal/
https://www.uspresidentialelectionnews.com/2020-presidential-primary-schedule-calendar/canceled-2020-primaries/
https://www.wral.com/story/biden-won-t-face-any-competition-in-nc-s-2024-democratic-primary-state-election-officials-confirm/21218264/
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article282666758.html
Add New Hampshire to the list of states showing DNC election interference along with Tennessee, North Carolina.
I get the frustration people have with NH always going 1st. However, SC was pushed 1st, specifically bc of how Biden performed there last election.
It’s crazy how obviously racist their justification for the NC move is too. Black people are apparently interchangeable, and a black person in NC is just like a black person in NY, Detroit, LA, Chicago, or Texas. They couldn’t possibly have different perspectives or interests, after all, they are black.