President Biden has denounced Donald Trump and his extremist wing of the Republican Party as “a clear and present danger to our democracy” as the two men square off at campaign rallies ahead of November’s midterm elections.
Speaking outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia, the cradle of American democracy, where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were debated, he warned that “equality and democracy are under attack.” Calling out Trump by name, something he has previously refused to do, he condemned him as an agent of “fear, division and darkness,” and said the former president and his Make America Great Again movement (Maga) “they represent a threatening extremism”. the very foundations of our republic”. Thursday’s speech marked Biden’s second