In a rare public address, former president said US is experiencing ‘dark days’ and urged Americans to vote

In a rare public address, former president said US is experiencing ‘dark days’ and urged Americans to vote

Joe Biden has warned that his presidential successor, Donald Trump, will attempt to “steal” the midterm elections, in a rare public address.

Speaking in South Carolina, where he was being honored for his lifetime achievement in politics, Biden also asserted that the US is experiencing “dark days”, in a speech made hours before the Trump administration launched attacks on Iran.

Reprising a line from the 2020 campaign that saw him defeat Trump and end Trump’s first presidency, Biden told the crowd at the Columbia Museum of Art on Friday that the “battle for the soul of this nation is one that’s never really over”. He simultaneously criticized Trump’s plan to introduce potentially prohibitive voting requirements ahead of the midterms.

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      • bearboiblake@pawb.socialEnglish
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        5 hours ago

        We don’t literally believe that Kamala Harris shares 99% of her policies with Hitler, that isn’t the argument. You see, it’s an analogy, to try and explain a complex idea in more of a readily understood way.

        I did not vote for a genocide, and presumably, you did. If any of us did this, you bear much more weight than I do. You got at least some of what you voted for. I did not.

          • bearboiblake@pawb.socialEnglish
            21·
            5 hours ago

            I have a genuine, good faith question for you - if the Democratic candidate ran on a platform of torturing and killing you, specifically TrickDacy, and the Republican candidate ran on a platform of torturing and killing you, and also burning more fossil fuels, would you still vote for the Democratic candidate on the basis of harm reduction?

              • bearboiblake@pawb.socialEnglish
                21·
                5 hours ago

                I don’t want you to get killed or harmed in any way, we disagree on this issue but we have a lot more in common, I would gladly fight fascists side by side with you.

                I’m genuinely interested in your perspective on my question