President Biden will hold his first two campaign events of the year in coming days in a campaign focused on the threat to American democracy posed by former President Trump, his likely opponent in November. I plan to.
Biden visited Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, on Saturday to commemorate the three-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, a move his campaign says continues the fight for democracy. This day is used as a symbol of The president will follow this up with a visit to South Carolina on Monday, where he is again expected to focus on threats to American freedoms.
Campaign officials told reporters that Mr. Biden is scheduled to explain the stakes of the 2024 election in a speech Saturday, during which Mr. Trump's supporters violently clashed with law enforcement and stormed a building. He said he was likely to invoke images of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, which stormed the U.S. Capitol and stormed the U.S. Capitol. sought to halt the certification of the 2020 election results.
“Our campaign is operating as if democracy depends on democracy,” said Quentin Fawkes, chief deputy campaign manager. “The president will directly assert that democracy and freedom … remain at the heart of the battles we have today.”
The Biden campaign is expected to announce the introduction of new paid advertising as soon as Saturday.
In year-end memos and a call with reporters Tuesday, Biden campaign officials said they are running the 2024 campaign not just for the soul of the nation, as Biden said in 2020, but for America's democracy. There is a growing tendency to frame it as a fight for fundamental freedoms.
Trump, who is comfortably leading in Republican primary polls, is taking credit for ending Roe v. Wade and access to abortion, and has become a dictator on his first day in office, campaign officials said. He said that he was calling for the removal of the dictator. The Affordable Care Act covers health care for millions of Americans.
“The threat that Donald Trump posed to American democracy in 2020 has only grown more serious in the years since,” Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez told reporters. Told.
Biden plans to reinforce that message during a visit to South Carolina on Monday, which hosts the first Democratic primary on the 2024 calendar next month. Biden is scheduled to speak at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston to discuss the threats facing Americans' freedoms.
This will be Biden's fourth visit to South Carolina as president, paying tribute to the state's role in putting him on track to win the 2020 Democratic nomination.
Biden's trip next week reflects the president and Vice President Harris' increasing focus on the campaign trail in the run-up to the November general election.
Harris will embark on a national tour focused on the fight for abortion access, starting in Wisconsin on January 22, the 51st anniversary of the first Roe v. Wade decision guaranteeing access to abortion.
“We continue to really build out the campaign, continue to demonstrate in practice the president, vice president, other principals traveling, and build on that and bring them into key states that we know. We will continue to make sure that we arrive 'very important to ensure victory in November,' said Chavez-Rodriguez.
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