Biden Says Republican Mid-term Victory Would Be “Assault on Democracy”

In an incendiary speech Wednesday at historic Union Station, located next to the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., President Joe Biden warned that if Republicans win a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate next Tuesday, it would be an “assault on democracy.”

While one might understandably wonder how it could be an “assault on democracy” if the American voting public cast their ballots for one political party over another political party, Biden used the recent attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul, in crime-ridden San Francisco, to make that very argument.

Noting that when a mob entered the Capitol on January 6, with some shouting, “Where’s Nancy?” Biden cited media reports that the man who assaulted Pelosi’s husband with a hammer shouted the same thing.

“Those were the very same words used by the mob when they stormed the United States Capitol on January the 6th, when they broke windows, kicked in doors, brutally attacked law enforcement, roamed the corridors hunting for officials and erected gallows to hang the former Vice President Mike Pence,” Biden said.

Biden added, “We don’t settle our differences with a riot, or a mob, or a bullet, or a hammer. We settle them peaceably at the ballot box.”

“This is no ordinary year,” Biden insisted. “In a typical year, we are not often faced with the question of whether the vote we cast will preserve democracy or put it at risk. But we are this year.”

Why is this? According to Biden, “You know, American democracy is under attack because the defeated former president of the United States refused to accept the results of the 2020 election. He refuses to accept the will of the people. He refuses to accept the fact that he lost. He has abused his power and put loyalty to himself before law under the Constitution.”

And, Biden claimed, it is not just Trump who is the problem, but a majority of the Republican members of Congress, whom he dubbed “Extreme MAGA Republicans.” He called attention to Republican candidates for other races, as well. “As I stand here today, there are candidates running for every level of office in America: for Governor, for Congress, for Attorney General, for Secretary of State who won’t commit to accepting the results of the elections they’re in.”

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