With less than a week until election day, and as it seems the bottom is falling out for the Democrats, President Joe Biden is planning to deliver a previously unscheduled speech on democracy.
During an Axios News Shapers event on Wednesday, White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Assistant to the President Jen O’Malley Dillon shared that the president will be speaking at Union Station in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C., about democracy.
“You can expect to hear from him this evening … there is a lot at stake including democracy and that everyone has a role in that,” O’Malley Dillion said.
She continued, “The other thing that will be really important … people will be able to vote…democracy works to make sure every vote is counted.”
Additionally, she explained they felt the venue was appropriate because “on January 6th we saw violence geared towards subverting democratic processes there.”
According to Axios, the speech is scheduled for 7 p.m. EST on Wednesday.
Citing a Democratic National Committee advisory, CNN’s Laura Barrón-López tweeted, “Biden’s 7pm speech tonight at Union Station will ‘address the threat of election deniers and those who seek to undermine faith in voting and democracy; and the stakes for our democracy in next week’s election.”
“Biden will also address attack on Pelosi’s husband and increase in political violence, per source familiar. But it will be one part of much larger speech on threats to democracy,” she added.
Biden will also address attack on Pelosi’s husband and increase in political violence, per source familiar. But it will be one part of much larger speech on threats to democracy
— Laura Barrón-López (@lbarronlopez) November 2, 2022
This is getting ridiculous. Biden’s aides maintained his speech before Independence Hall in September, where he labeled millions of Americans a threat, was not political.
“Too much of what’s happening in our country today is not normal. Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,” Biden said during that speech.
He claimed so-called “MAGA Republicans” do not “respect the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of the law. They do not recognize the will of the people. They refuse to accept the results of a free election.”
This clearly is political and hypocritical. Democratic groups spent millions trying to pump up far-right candidates who have questioned election results in the primaries because they believed those candidates would be easier to beat in the general election.
During that time, Biden, who has spent almost two years of his presidency warning about threats to democracy, kept his mouth shut about the Democratic meddling.
And when Vice President Kamala Harris was given the opportunity to address boosting those candidates, she simply said, “I mean, listen, I’m not going to tell people how to run their campaigns.”
On the eve of what could be a very, very bad night for Democrats — where some of the election-denying candidates they boosted will likely win — the party is freaking out.
So they’re sending out Biden in a last-ditch effort to try to scare whatever persuadable voters there are left to vote for Democrats.
If there is such a threat to democracy, the president should have denounced what his party was doing. But he didn’t, and now it is hard to take him seriously. Regardless, it will be interesting to see if they bring the red lights and Marines to his speech this time.