The President of the United States, Joe Biden, called on the American population this Thursday (1st) to defend democracy in the country, which he considers threatened by former President Donald Trump (
“For a long time we believed that American democracy was guaranteed. But it’s not. We have to defend it, protect it, resist,” Biden said during a speech in the city of Philadelphia, considered the cradle of US democracy.
“Right now, equality and democracy are under attack,” Biden said in front of Independence Hall, where American independence was declared in 1776. “We don’t do ourselves any favors by pretending otherwise. So tonight, I came to this place where it all began. To speak as clearly as possible to the nation about the threats we face. About the power we have in our hands to face these threats.”
The Democratic president claimed that what has been happening in the United States “is not normal”. “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,” he said, arguing that the Republican Party has been partially “dominated, led and bullied” by Trump and his allies.
Biden’s speech, the leader of the Republicans in the US House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, accused the president of launching an attack against democracy.
“In the last two years, Joe Biden launched an attack on the soul of America, its people and its most sacred values. He launched an attack against our democracy”, criticized the congressman from Scranton (Pennsylvania), the president’s hometown.
McCarthy cited economic and security problems in the country, saying that “a government never promised so much and achieved so little” and urged citizens to “change direction” in the November midterm elections.
“Washington and the White House are not listening… America is getting poorer, less secure and less free,” McCarthy declared in a speech to Republican voters. The congressman criticized the Biden administration’s social spending policies and accused him of generating the “biggest inflationary crisis” in the country’s history.
In addition, he accused the American president of creating a “crisis migration” at the border. Therefore, he encouraged participation in the November elections: the House currently has a Democratic majority and the Senate is divided between the two parties. “Our nation can flourish again with a new Republican majority”, considered the congressman.
