That approach is expected to be a key component of the Biden campaign’s effort to highlight the stakes of this year’s presidential election, which is shaping up to be an eventual rematch of the 2020 vote.
Democratic campaign officials warned about how disastrous a potential Trump victory would be because he “will use his full power to systematically dismantle and destroy our democracy,” said communications director Michael Tyler.
For her part, campaign director Julie Chávez, added that the electoral crusade they are carrying out is “as if the destiny of our democracy depended on it. Because that’s it”.
Biden will deliver his speech from the Philadelphia area near Valley Forge, a historic site where George Washington worked to rally troops into a unified army in the late 1770s.
“The threat that Donald Trump represented in 2020 to American democracy has only become more serious in the years since,” Chávez emphasized.
Biden and Trump maintain eventual parity in a hypothetical confrontation according to the most recent NBC survey.
The television network’s poll -in November- showed that 44 percent of those interviewed supported the Democrat, while the Republican obtained 46 percent, but the difference falls within the margin of error, so they would have a technical tie.
Meanwhile, Trump continues to navigate his legal problems, although he remains a favorite among those in his party to win the Republican nomination this year.
The former president, who was accused of 91 charges and has four pending trials, asked a Maine court the day before to annul the decision to eliminate him from the 2024 presidential primary ballot due to his role in instigating the attack on the Capitol.
Maine removed Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot last Thursday in a decision by Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, who declared him ineligible under the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
For his part, Biden closed 2023 with the forecast of an impeachment trial promoted by Republicans. Furthermore, with an approval rating of less than 40 percent, the lowest of his presidency and also the worst among all the occupants of the Oval Office who sought re-election in the last four decades.
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