President Joe Biden mocked “MAGA Republicans” at a Democratic National Committee reception that appeared to be a soft launch of his and Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2024 reelection campaign.
Biden defended his antagonist comments regarding “MAGA Republicans” before last year’s midterm elections, differentiating what he described as establishment and hard-line members of the GOP. He had previously likened their ideology to “semifascism.”
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“These aren’t conservatives. These are disruptive people,” Biden told the rowdy crowd after listing some of the House Republican majority’s legislative priorities, from measures repealing $80 billion in IRS funding to restricting to whom the United States can sell Strategic Petroleum Reserve crude oil. “When I said this stuff in the off-year, people looked at me like I was nuts. They’re nuts. I’m not nuts,” he added.
Biden concluded his remarks with what could emerge as his and Harris’s reelection slogan: “America is back, and we’re leading the world again.”
During an earlier fundraiser, held on the sidelines of the party’s winter meeting, Biden recounted how French President Emmanuel Macron asked him, “How long?” when he sought to reassure allies “America’s back” at the 2021 G-7 leaders meeting in the United Kingdom.
Biden added that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz then asked him, “What would you do, Mr. President, if, in fact, we adjourned tonight, you woke up in the morning, and [you] found out the British Parliament was stormed,” the election was overruled, and two police officers were killed.
“Think about that,” Biden said.
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Biden’s trip to Philadelphia precedes his State of the Union address next week, after which he is scheduled to travel to the battleground states of Florida and Wisconsin amid speculation he is poised to officially announce his and Harris’s reelection bid. Harris is expected to visit Georgia and Minnesota after Biden’s speech to the joint session of Congress.
