- Within minutes of House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy asked Biden to apologize for equating the party’s Trump-MAGA wing to “semi-fascism” he went on a similar attack in primetime speech in Philadelphia.
- “As I stand here tonight, equality and democracy are under assault,” the president said.
- Biden mentioned Trump by name as he talked about the “MAGA forces” in the GOP.
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“Too much of what’s happening in our country today is not normal,” he said. “Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.”