- In a speech on Thursday, Biden delivered a uncommon rebuke of MAGA Republicans.
- Biden stated democracy can not survive when one aspect believes the one consequence of elections is successful.
- “You possibly can’t love your nation solely if you win,” Biden stated.
President Joe Biden on Thursday known as out the MAGA world for under respecting free and truthful democratic elections once they win them.
Throughout a prime-time speech, he spoke in regards to the “battle for the soul of the nation” and slammed “MAGA Republicans” for fanning the “flames of political violence.”
In his speech, Biden known as upon Individuals to reject political violence and never enable the integrity of the nation’s elections to be undermined.
Whereas he acknowledged that politics in a “huge, sophisticated nation” like America could possibly be “fierce and imply and nasty,” he stated that democracy would endure provided that its folks “settle for the outcomes of free and truthful elections.”
“Democracy can not survive when one aspect believes there are solely two outcomes to an election: both they win or they had been cheated. And that is the place MAGA Republicans are in the present day,” stated Biden.
“They do not perceive what each patriotic American is aware of: You possibly can’t love your nation solely if you win,” he added.
Biden additionally vowed to not enable election outcomes to be “overturned by wild conspiracy theories and baseless, evidence-free claims of fraud.” “I can’t stand by and watch elections on this nation stolen by individuals who merely refuse to just accept that they misplaced,” he added.
Ever since Trump’s refusal to concede the election in 2020, claims of voter fraud by lawmakers have develop into commonplace — even within the GOP’s primaries.
In June, Trump’s PAC baselessly prompt that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s 52-point victory within the state’s GOP gubernatorial major solely occurred due to election fraud. In August, Laura Loomer, a far-right GOP candidate in Florida, additionally melted down and baselessly alleged voter fraud after shedding her race.
Earlier in his speech, Biden additionally commented on how former President Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans represented “extremism” within the nation. Trump has continued to tout baseless claims of election fraud, regardless of there being no proof that widespread voter fraud within the 2020 election.
