{"id":1629185,"date":"2022-09-01T08:20:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T12:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1629185"},"modified":"2022-09-01T08:20:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T12:20:10","slug":"following-jabs-at-maga-republicans-biden-to-highlight-fight-to-protect-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/following-jabs-at-maga-republicans-biden-to-highlight-fight-to-protect-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Following Jabs at \u201cMAGA Republicans\u201d, Biden to Highlight Fight to \u201cProtect Democracy\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffollowing-jabs-at-maga-republicans-biden-to-highlight-fight-to-protect-democracy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1629185&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"speechkit-wrapper\" class=\"speechkit-wrapper\">\n<p><span class=\"label-bg\">NEW<\/span>You can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The White House says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Biden<\/a> will head to Philadelphia on Thursday for a speech in which he will argue that America\u2019s democracy remains &#8220;under attack&#8221; and highlight &#8220;who is fighting&#8221; to protect the nation\u2019s freedoms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The speech, in the crucial general election battleground state of Pennsylvania, comes less than 10 weeks ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/elections\/midterm-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November midterm elections,<\/a> when the Democrats hope to hold onto their razor-thin majorities in the House of Representatives and the Senate. The address also comes as Biden has raised his rhetoric in recent days, targeting who he argues are anti-Democratic &#8220;MAGA Republicans&#8221; who have embraced &#8220;semi-fascism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The president will speak at Philadelphia\u2019s Independence National Historical Park, where the Declaration of Independence and the nation\u2019s Constitution were debated and signed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He will speak about how the core values of this nation \u2014 our standing in the world, our democracy \u2014\u00a0are at stake,&#8221; a White House official confirmed to Fox News. &#8220;He will talk about the progress we have made as a nation to protect our democracy but how our rights and freedoms are still under attack.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST FOX NEWS REPORTING AND COMMENTARY ON PRESIDENT BIDEN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The White House official added that the president &#8220;will make clear who is fighting for those rights, fighting for those freedoms and fighting for our democracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last week, in comments that received plenty of pushback from Republicans, the president blasted a GOP that is still very much under the firm grip of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">former President Trump,<\/a> Biden\u2019s predecessor in the White House.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/pennsylvania-senate-showdown-oz-targets-fetterman-not-joining-biden-tuesday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>BIDEN FRONT AND CENTER AS OZ TAKES AIM AT FETTERMAN IN PENNSYLVANIA&#8217;S SENATE BATTLE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we&#8217;re seeing now is either the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy,&#8221; Biden told Democratic donors at a gathering in Maryland. &#8220;It&#8217;s not just Trump,&#8221; he went on, &#8220;it&#8217;s the entire philosophy that underpins the \u2014\u00a0I&#8217;m going to say something: It&#8217;s like semi-fascism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And at an ensuing Democratic National Committee rally that evening, the president charged that &#8220;MAGA Republicans don\u2019t just threaten\u00a0our personal rights and economic security, they\u2019re a threat to our very democracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      President Biden will speak in Philadelphia on Thursday about the &#8220;attack&#8221; on democracy from &#8220;MAGA Republicans.&#8221;<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/elections\/republicans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republican National Committee<\/a> criticized the president\u2019s recent jabs at the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Biden has pitted neighbors against each other, labeled half of Americans as fascist, and tarnished any idea of his promise of \u2018unity.\u2019 Families are left with a recession, high gas prices, and a nation on the wrong track,&#8221; RNC spokesperson Emma Vaughn said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s address, one of only a few Biden has given in the evening hours since entering the White House more than a year and a half ago, is not being billed as a political speech. Additionally, the president may not repeat his stinging attacks on Trump and his legions of loyalists in the GOP.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/official-polls\/fox-news-poll-oz-supporters-lack-enthusiasm-pennsylvania-senate-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WHAT THE LATEST FOX NEWS POLL IN PENNSYLVANIA SHOWS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, the theme of working to protect the nation\u2019s democracy and rule of law has been a common one for Biden dating back to the launch of his successful presidential campaign more than three years ago. He repeatedly noted that viewing the controversial and violent protests by White supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 motivated him to make a third White House bid.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s choice of Philadelphia as the setting for his address comes as no surprise. Biden, in May 2019, held the first major rally of his successful presidential campaign in the city, which is located halfway between his native Scranton, Pennsylvania, and his longtime hometown of Wilmington, Delaware.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/joe-biden-afl-cio-union-speech-june-14.jpg\" alt=\"President Biden speaks at the 29th AFL-CIO Quadrennial Constitutional Convention.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      President Biden speaks at the 29th AFL-CIO Quadrennial Constitutional Convention.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Nicholas Kamm\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Biden\u2019s Thursday speech will be his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/northeast\/pennsylvania\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">third stop in Pennsylvania<\/a> in just one week. The president heads to Wilkes-Barre on Tuesday afternoon to highlight his $37 billion crime fighting and police funding plan that&#8217;s aimed at making communities safer amid a surge in violence. Biden canceled the trip last month after testing positive for COVID-19. On Monday, the president will travel to Pittsburgh to mark Labor Day.<\/p>\n<p>Those trips will bring the total number of visits Biden\u2019s made to Pennsylvania since his inauguration as president to 16 \u2014 more than any state other than his home state of Delaware, and Virginia and Maryland, which border the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&amp;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&amp;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania, long a crucial general election swing state, is home this cycle to crucial gubernatorial, Senate and House showdowns.<\/p>\n<p>The visits come as Biden\u2019s poll numbers continue to rebound after sinking deep into negative territory over the past year, fueled in part by rocketing gas prices and record inflation. With prices at the pump continuing to fall, inflation slightly easing, and with a slew of recent legislative successes, the president\u2019s approval ratings \u2014\u00a0while still well underwater \u2014\u00a0have edged up over the past month and a half.<\/p>\n<p><i>Fox News&#8217; Patrick Ward contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<p>Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in New Hampshire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! 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