President Joe Biden added yet another campaign event to his schedule on Wednesday, a prime-time televised speech on “democracy” delivered from the nation’s capital.
Senior adviser to the president Anita Dunn and White House deputy chief of staff Jen O’Malley Dillon first previewed Biden’s remarks during an Axios live panel Wednesday morning.
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“Biden has been speaking about democracy for the entire time he’s been in office,” O’Malley Dillon explained. “You can expect to hear from him this evening, similar to what he’s been saying over the course of the last several months, that there is a lot at stake, including democracy, and that everyone has a role in that.”
The Democratic National Committee later announced that Biden’s speech on “preserving and protecting our democracy as Election Day approaches” would take place at Union Station, just blocks from the U.S. Capitol.
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The president has steadily increased his attacks against former President Donald Trump and “mega MAGA” Republicans in the lead-up to the midterm elections, framing them as both threats to democracy and irresponsible economic stewards.
“I always say, ‘Democracy is on the ballot.’ I literally mean it. Not hyperbole,” Biden said while campaigning in Florida on Tuesday. ‘It’s really on the ballot. How can you say you are not supporting autocracy … when you call the people who storm the Capitol and kill — end up [with] two cops dying, so many people hurt by the thousands, [and] broke down the doors of the House and the Senate — how can you say, when you refer to them as ‘patriots,’ that you are a democrat with a small ‘d’?
