i m alycia menendez in for nicolle wallace. from the president, a reminder of the stakes in the next election and an existential question, the president asking all americans, who are we? cited valley forge and on the each of the third anniversary of the january 6th attack, the president describing democracy as a sacred cause and the central issue of the 2024 election. this is not rhetorical, ak dem academic, or hypothetical, but the democracy s question is the most urgent question of our time. the choice is clear. donald trump s campaign is about him, not america, not you. donald trump s campaign is obsessed with the past, not the future. he s willing to sacrifice our democracy, put himself in power. our campaign is different. for me and kamala, our campaign is about america. it s about you. it s about every age and background that occupy this country. the speech today another episode in what has become one of the biggest themes in the biden presidency. president biden ha
but talk me through what it means for colorado and for other states where there s already pending lawsuits. well, obviously, it will depend on what the supreme court rules. i mean, there is a way it rules that says he is on the ballot, period, the end. for instance, they could say that there needs to be congressional enabling legislation in order for this constitutional provision to be enforced or that this constitutional provision doesn t apply to the president or former president of the united states. i m not endorsing either. every secretary of state, every state would have to put on the ballot anyone who qualifies under their particular requirements. but, a thing i find quite interesting here is that the time line is very truncated, as
case with significant election consequences, at the supreme court, 6-3. so, these are not i really caution into saying they re going to definitely rule one way or the other because of politics. that s just not how the court operates. i d say one other thing about what lisa and andrew were saying a moment ago about the question presented at the court. i guess i disagree a little with my colleagues. it s very rare for the supreme court to rewrite the questions that the petitioner, that is the person asking the supreme court to hear the case, rare that the court will actually do that. in my hundreds of cases at the court, it s only happened a few times. it s not surprising to me the court heard what it generally does, taking the question as the way the petitioner here, donald trump, framed it out to be. i don t think that tells us very much about all the questions that the court has really focused on. i think they re just at this point focused on all of the above, on everything, and the
unquestionably this election is about preserving democracy in the united states, and he said again that is the central issue at stake in 2024. second, he just repeated trump s own words. he didn t even necessarily need to make an argument so much as repeat what trump has said, that he would be a dictator on day one, that he would terminate parts of the constitution, that his opponents are vermin, and importantly pointed out that trump s implication of the phrase poisoning our country with reference to immigrants harkens back to language you heard in nazi germany. third, i thought the president did a good job of telling people why democracy matters. it s about freedom and who we are, that we are decent to one another, how it matters in our daily lives. finally, the president was alive, passionate, articulate, everything that the character trump tries to paint of him is not. he is disproving that character. i thought it was a terrific
i m alycia menendez in for nicolle wallace. from the president, a reminder of the stakes in the next election and an existential question, the president asking all americans, who are we? cited valley forge and on the each of the third anniversary of the january 6th attack, the president describing democracy as a sacred cause and the central issue of the 2024 election. this is not rhetorical, ak dem academic, or hypothetical, but the democracy s question is the most urgent question of our time. the choice is clear. donald trump s campaign is about him, not america, not you. donald trump s campaign is obsessed with the past, not the future. he s willing to sacrifice our democracy, put himself in power. our campaign is different.