Trump accuses Biden of ‘fearmongering’ with Jan. 6 speech

Former President Trump on Friday accused President Biden of “fear mongering” in a speech earlier in the day, saying Biden posed a clear threat to democracy and that he could not be trusted to serve a second term. Stated.

In remarks to supporters in Sioux Center, Iowa, President Trump called Biden's speech in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, a “pathetic fear-mongering campaign event” and said Biden is running on other issues. Because he cannot do so, he suggested that he was only attacking Biden on democracy issues.

“Joe Biden's record is an unbroken string of weakness, incompetence, corruption, and failure. Other than that, he's done very well,” Trump said, mocking Biden's speech. . Mr. Biden has spoken publicly about how he overcame his stutter during his childhood.

“If you look at Biden, what he's doing on the border, on inflation, on our military, on that terrible day in Afghanistan, you'll see what he's been doing tirelessly,” Trump added. . “Across the world, we are an embarrassment as a nation. We have become an embarrassment as a nation.”

President Trump at one point cast doubt on the 2020 election results, suggesting that the roughly 75 million votes cast for him were inaccurate and that the total was actually much higher. Numerous court challenges filed by Mr. Trump's allies in 2020 to challenge the results were rejected or dismissed by various judges across the country.

Trump, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, spoke at the first of several events planned in Iowa this weekend. The former president has bombarded the Hawkeye State ahead of the Jan. 15 caucuses, with supporters touting him as a landslide victory and defeating former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. We hope to break any potential momentum the (Republican Party) has.

For his first campaign stop of 2024, Biden visited Valley Forge, a historically significant site of the American Revolution, on Friday. The president revealed the stakes in November's election, insisting that “democracy is at stake.”

Biden detailed the riot on Jan. 6, 2021, when a crowd of Trump supporters stormed the building, violently clashing with law enforcement to prevent the certification of the 2020 election results.

Biden directly linked Trump's comments to the violence at the time, warning that the former president was threatening the foundations of American democracy.

“Today, we are here to answer the most important question of all: Is democracy still America's sacred cause?” Biden said. “This is not rhetorical, academic, or hypothetical. Whether democracy remains America's sacred cause is the most pressing question of our time. That's what the 2024 election is all about.”

Polls in recent weeks have shown that more voters say they trust Trump more than Biden on the economy, immigration and the Israel-Hamas war. Biden's approval ratings have fallen to record lows in recent weeks, even as his aides insist the economy is strong, pointing to jobs numbers and gross domestic product. I'm here.

According to the average poll conducted by Decision Desk Headquarters, Trump and Biden are in a close race, with 44% of voters favoring Trump and 43% predicting that they will face each other in the general election in November.

Mr. Biden's speech Friday reflected how his campaign hopes to use Mr. Trump's threat to democracy as a rallying cry heading into November's election.

In recent weeks, the Biden campaign has criticized Trump's pledge to become a dictator on his first day in office, comments reminiscent of Adolf Hitler, calls for investigations into his political opponents, and Trump's pledge of “retaliation” against his supporters. I've been emphasizing.

Earlier this week, Biden's re-election campaign released a 60-second ad, scheduled to air next week in key battleground states, that showed President Trump “eroding American democracy, excusing political violence, and even political He claimed that he was trying to “promote criminal violence.”