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'A threat to the country': Biden warns of Trump and GOP extremism 'For a long time, we've reassured ourselves that American democracy is guaranteed. But it is not' |
Eric Garcia, Andrew Feinberg |
President Joe Biden on Thursday used a dramatic primetime address to the nation to warn of the danger to American democracy posed by acolytes of former president Donald Trump and other GOP candidates who want to strip citizens of their most basic rights. Standing on what he called the "sacred ground" of Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia — the place where America's founding documents were debated and drafted — Mr Biden called the ideas embodied in that document, "equality and democracy" the "rock" on which the US was built. Read the full story here |
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