Biden Slams ‘MAGA Republicans’ in Primetime Speech: ‘They Embrace Anger, They Thrive on Chaos’
President Joe Biden repeatedly took shots at former President Donald Trump and “MAGA Republicans” in a speech delivered from Philadelphia’s Independence Hall on Thursday night.
“We must be honest with each other and with ourselves,” Biden said during his speech. “Too much of what’s happening in our country today is not normal. Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.”
Biden qualified his remarks by stating “not even the majority of Republicans are MAGA Republicans,” adding, “I know because I’ve been able to work with these mainstream Republicans.”
The president stated the GOP is “dominated, driven and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans. And that is a threat to this country. These are hard things. But I’m an American president, not a president of red America or blue America, but of all America.”
Biden then predicted dire consequences for the country if Trump-supporting Republicans retake control of government:
MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of law. They do not recognize the will of the people. They refuse to accept the results of a free election. And they’re working right now, as I speak in state after state, to give the power to decide elections in America to partisans and cronies, empowering election-deniers to undermine democracy itself.
MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards. Backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love. They promote authoritarian leaders and they fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country.
They look at the mob that stormed the United States Capitol on January 6th – brutally attacking law enforcement – not as insurrectionists, who placed a dagger at the throat of our democracy, but they look at them as patriots and they see their MAGA failure to stop a peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election as preparation for the 2022 and 2024 elections. They tried everything last time to nullify the votes of 81 million people. This time, they’re determined to succeed in thwarting the will of the people.
Biden later added, “MAGA Republicans have made their choice. They embrace anger, they thrive on chaos. They live not in the light of truth, but in the shadow of lies.”
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