{"id":1631122,"date":"2022-09-02T13:04:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T17:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1631122"},"modified":"2022-09-02T13:04:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T17:04:20","slug":"biden-maga-bashing-speech-could-cool-democrats-midterm-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-maga-bashing-speech-could-cool-democrats-midterm-momentum\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden MAGA-Bashing Speech Could Cool Democrats\u2019 Midterm Momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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-maga-bashing-speech-could-cool-democrats-midterm-momentum%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=1631122&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><em>News Analysis<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">When President Joe Biden accused <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-maga\">MAGA<\/a> Republicans of being \u201ca threat to this country\u201d in his Sept. 1 primetime address at Philadelphia\u2019s Independence Hall, Democrats\u2019 prospects of retaining control of the U.S. House and capturing the U.S. Senate in November\u2019s midterm elections appeared to be on the upswing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Democratic candidates in congressional races were seeing renewed enthusiasm among supporters following the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s June repeal of Roe v Wade and were entering the post-Labor Day stretch run under the full-sail momentum of legislative victories by the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">After criticizing Republicans for \u201cMAGA extremism\u201d and \u201csemi-fascism\u201d earlier this week, Biden doubled down on the rhetoric in his primetime speech, claiming the GOP had been hijacked, \u201cdominated, driven, and intimidated\u201d by former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> and his supporters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Reaction from Republicans and Trump himself after being accused of being threats to democracy was immediate\u2014and continues the morning after\u2014and predictable in refutal and recrimination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But the immediate fallout left some Democrats, especially those engaged in contentious campaigns against Trump-endorsed or MAGA-supporting Republicans, trying to tamp down Biden\u2019s harsh words.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">New Hampshire Democrat incumbent Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), who is likely to face Trump-endorsed retired U.S. Army Gen. Don Bolduc\u2014the overwhelming favorite in the state\u2019s Sept. 13 GOP primary\u2014distanced herself from Biden\u2019s speech in comments to WMUR-TV in Manchester, New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI have concerns that some people seem to think that violence is an appropriate way of resolving disputes in our democracy, but I think President Biden\u2019s comments just painted with way too broad a brush,\u201d said Hassan who is regarded among Senate incumbents most likely to be unseated in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Bolduc, meanwhile, in a Twitter post, shared a widely circulated photoshopped image of Biden in an Adolf Hitler-like oratory pose. \u201c@JoeBiden yelling at the clouds while he insults half of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Analysis When President Joe Biden accused MAGA Republicans of being \u201ca threat to this country\u201d in his Sept. 1 primetime address at Philadelphia\u2019s Independence Hall, Democrats\u2019 prospects of retaining control of the U.S. House and capturing the U.S. Senate in November\u2019s midterm elections appeared to be on the upswing. Democratic candidates in congressional races [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1631122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631122","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\/509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1631122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}