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This may have been a political speech, but that doesn't mean there aren't real threats "Almost feels like a pre-argument against what a Republican House might be pushing for the next two years, setting up a broader narrative about how he is fighting to stop Republicans from anti-democratic moves."Ģ. "It's pretty clear they want to amplify the MAGA message," said Democratic strategist Joel Payne. With Trump back in the news, it offered Biden a way to elevate him, hold him up as the standard-bearer of the GOP, what it stands for, and draw a line in the sand. And when you do that, it's going to look and sound political. Biden doesn't often use Trump's name, but he name-checked him three times in this speech. He highlighted threats to democracy as being urgent and instigated by Trump. "MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards," Biden said, "backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love." So this gave Biden an opportunity to deflect from that - and lay out a choice. That usually would mean a wipeout in a president's first midterm. Inflation is high, Biden is unpopular and people are pessimistic about the direction of the country. on himĮlections, especially midterm elections, are traditionally a check on the president.

Biden tried to reinforce the idea that this election is a choice, not a referendum.

On the eve of Labor Day weekend, the traditional pivot to the final sprint of general elections across the country, here are three takeaways from Biden's speech:ġ. And now America must choose to move forward or to move backwards." "I believe America is at an inflection point," the president said in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, the same city where he launched his 2020 presidential campaign, "one of those moments that determine the shape of everything that's to come after.

Instead, Biden took the opportunity to elevate Trump and make it a choice between what Biden and Democrats stand for and MAGA Republican extremism, as he sees it, and their rising influence in positions of power throughout the country. Lots of his candidates have won contentious primaries he's consolidated his base and his renewed presence has threatened to make the November elections a choice rather than a referendum on President Biden.īiden and the White House leaned into that Thursday night with an unusual prime-time address that broke no news or made any big announcements. Wade.Īnd the FBI search of former President Trump's Florida home has thrust Trump back into the spotlight, front and center. Democrats have picked up some momentum this election cycle with wins in multiple special elections, following the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v.