Watch: President Joe Biden gives prime-time speech on battle for 'soul of the nation'

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President Joe Biden is sounding an alarm Thursday night about what he views as “extremist” threats to American democracy from the restive forces of Trumpism. He’s aiming to reframe the November elections as part of an unceasing battle for the “soul of the nation.”

Nearly two years after he defeated Donald Trump, it’s a reprise of Biden’s 2020 campaign theme, casting the midterm election stakes in as dire terms as those that sent him to the Oval Office. His prime-time speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia will lay out what he sees as the risks from those he has dubbed “ultra-MAGA Republicans” to the nation’s system of government, its standing abroad and its citizens’ way of life.

The explicit effort by Biden to marginalize Trump and and his “Make America Great Again” adherents marks a sharp turn for the president, who preached his desire to bring about national unity in his Inaugural address. White House officials said it reflects his mounting concern about Trump conservatives’ ideological proposals and 2020 election denialism.

“MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards,” Biden is saying, according to prepared remarks released by the White House. “Backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love.”

“For a long time, we’ve reassured ourselves that American democracy is guaranteed. But it is not,” Biden says. “We have to defend it. Protect it. Stand up for it. Each and every one of us.”

Biden, who largely avoided even referring to “the former guy” by name during his first year in office, has grown increasingly vocal in calling out Trump personally. Now, emboldened by his party’s recent legislative wins and wary of Trump’s return to the headlines, Biden is sharpening his attacks.

Trump plans a rally this weekend in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Biden’s birthplace.

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  9. It's ironic that Republicans are giving Biden grief because he said he was going to pull the two parties together when he was running for president. He's done everything he could to pull the parties together but the Republicans refuse to let that happen. I'm glad he finally came out and called a spade, a spade. The Republican party in office are nothing but liars, and they don't care about the American people. They care about themselves and winning their next elections. And they have proven they'll do whatever it takes to win those elections. It doesn't matter if it's morally right or not. Fox news and far right news programs should be ashamed of themselves with all their lies and not letting Republicans know what the real truth is. There is so much bad karma floating around the Republican party, Trump too. It's not going to end well for them. And it's sad that all these poor people think the Republicans care about them. They don't have a clue that they want to keep the rich rich and the poor poor.

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  14. Welcome to hell's front door…..

    People tend to associate red with negative, danger-bearing emotions. This could be because it is the color of fire, blood, and sometimes of poisonous or dangerous animals.

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  19. Credit card debt is higher than ever. People are struggling and barely getting by because of inflation. Energy cost going up, food going up. We are on the verge of a market crash.

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  26. This was a great speech not like TRUMPS speech that said, the FBI broke into my house and took TOP CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS that he stoled from the WHITE HOUSE. TRUMP will do it again if he BECOMES. PRESIDENT. TRUMP will be selling TOP SECRIT MATERIAL for money to become RICHER because that is what he does.

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  27. All the people that do not like this speech are REPUBLICANS. They do not like the PRESIDENT because he is a DEMOCRATIC even if ,what he does helps them. The only thing TRUMP did as PRESIDENT was help the RICH and that made all of us poorer. VOTE FOR TRUMP to make the RICH RICHER and the POOR POORER.

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  28. Rewind to the begining…… you can hear the slow paced ringing of the single bell, like that you may hear at a funeral… the bell ringing… instantly reminded me of…"for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee" as if it's the requiem for the "American Dream"

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  35. Never seen a sitting President give a speech with the sole purpose of demonizing his political opponents, and to such extremes.
    Can’t believe I’m saying this, but at this point I’d take 97 year old Jimmy Carter over this tyrannical buffoon.

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