U.S. President Joe Biden is seeking to stoke voters’ outrage over the extremism of Donald Trump and his supporters ahead of November’s midterm elections, even if the strategy risks exacerbating political tensions in the nation.
In a prime-time address to the nation Thursday from Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, Biden sharpened the criticism he’s recently used to describe his predecessor and Trump supporters.
Declaring that "equality and democracy are under assault” from "extremist” Republicans, he implied that the only way to stop them was to vote against Republicans who support the former president.