WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will deliver a prime-time speech “on the ongoing struggle for the soul of the nation” outside Philadelphia’s Independence Hall on Thursday, the White House announced Monday.
Announced as a keynote speech just over two months before the midterm elections, Biden will discuss how the country’s status in the world and its democracy are at stake, the White House said.
“He will talk about the progress we have made as a nation to protect our democracy, but how our rights and freedoms continue to be attacked,” the White House said. “And he will make clear who is fighting for those rights, fighting for those freedoms, and fighting for our democracy.”
Biden has increasingly sought to portray the November election as a choice for voters between “ultra-MAGA Republicans” — a reference to former President Donald Trump’s campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” — and Democrats. He told supporters last week that they should “vote to literally save democracy again” – and labeled some Republican ideologies as “semi-fascism”.
NBC News was the first to report on Biden’s plans for the address.
