president of the united states call his predecessor a threat to this country. that s exactly what we heard tonight from president joe biden about donald trump and trumpism in his renewed battle for the soul of america campaign, this time ahead of the midterms. what is happening today in america, he says, is not normal. donald trump and the maga republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. they promote authoritarian leaders and they fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country. they look at the mob that stormed the united states capitol on january 6th, brutally attacking law enforcement, not as insurrectionists who placed a dagger at the throat of our democracy, but they look at them as patriots. and they see their maga failure to stop a peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election as preparation for the 2022 and 2
every generation has opened the door of opportunity wider. what we have not heard a lot of him since he became president, the speech he s talking about lowering prescription drug prices and rebuilding the country. i think that is a crucial, crucial message. i would bet for the next 60-some days we re going to hear quite a bit more of that than the straight, full-on, double-barrelled, anti-trump stuff. kevin mccarthy delivered this pre-buttal from west ping ston, pennsylvania. let s listen to a little bit of that. when the president speaks tonight at independence hall, the first lines out of his mouth should be to apologize for slandering tens of millions of americans as fascists. what joe biden doesn t understand is that the soul of america is in the tens of millions of hard-working people, of loving families, of