{"id":1630342,"date":"2022-09-02T06:34:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T10:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1630342"},"modified":"2022-09-02T08:19:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T12:19:39","slug":"biden-accuses-trump-maga-republicans-of-extremism-in-rare-primetime-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-accuses-trump-maga-republicans-of-extremism-in-rare-primetime-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Accuses Trump, MAGA Republicans of \u2018Extremism\u2019 in Rare Primetime Address"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fbiden-accuses-trump-maga-republicans-of-extremism-in-rare-primetime-address%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=1630342&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--><p>In a rare primetime address,\u00a0President Joe Biden accused former President Donald Trump and so-called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-maga\">MAGA<\/a> Republicans\u201d of having an \u201cextreme ideology\u201d that effectively threatens \u201cthe very foundations of our republic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2022\/09\/01\/remarks-by-president-bidenon-the-continued-battle-for-the-soul-of-the-nation\/\">In his remarks<\/a> Thursday night, the Democrat urged voters to \u201cdo our duty in 2022\u201d and \u201cvote, vote, vote\u201d to \u201cprotect\u201d democracy in the upcoming November midterm elections, which he painted as a pivotal and determining moment in America\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s appearance was promoted as an official, taxpayer-funded event, and the White House claimed it was not a political speech. His speech was held near Philadelphia\u2019s Independence Hall in Pennsylvania, which was where the\u00a0U.S. Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were adopted.<\/p>\n<p>The 79-year-old U.S. leader credited the two documents for embodying the ideas of \u201cequality and democracy,\u201d which he called \u201cthe rock upon which this nation is built,\u201d before declaring that \u201cequality and democracy are under assault.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,\u201d Biden charged from behind bullet-proof glass.\u00a0MAGA stands for \u201cMake America Great Again,\u201d Trump\u2019s slogan in his successful 2016 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no question that the Republican\u00a0Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans, and that is a threat to this country,\u201d the Democrat said.<\/p>\n<p>He accused Trump and \u201cMAGA Republicans\u201d of being committed to \u201cdestroying American democracy,\u201d and called upon Democrats, independents, and what he called \u201cmainstream Republicans\u201d to \u201cconfront extremists\u201d and be stronger than the MAGA group.<\/p>\n<p>He also asked Americans to \u201ccome together\u201d and \u201cunite behind the single purpose of defending our democracy regardless of your ideology\u201d\u2014all while condemning what he called \u201cthe extreme MAGA ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden said that he ran for the presidency in 2020 because he believed \u201cwe were in a battle for the soul of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a rare primetime address,\u00a0President Joe Biden accused former President Donald Trump and so-called \u201cMAGA Republicans\u201d of having an \u201cextreme ideology\u201d that effectively threatens \u201cthe very foundations of our republic.\u201d In his remarks Thursday night, the Democrat urged voters to \u201cdo our duty in 2022\u201d and \u201cvote, vote, vote\u201d to \u201cprotect\u201d democracy in the upcoming [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":1894802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1630342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/biden-accuses-trump-maga-republicans-of-extremism-in-rare-primetime-address_4706064.html","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1630342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}