President Joe Biden is beginning his Labor Day celebrations with a trip to one battleground state, Wisconsin, before making his third trip in less than a week to another, Pennsylvania
that some Republicans now believe so strongly in Trumpism that they are willing to undermine core American values to promote it. The president said Thursday that the midterms will be a battle"for the soul of the nation," the same slogan he used to win the 2020 election, and that"blind loyalty to a single leader, and a willingness to engage in political violence, is fatal to democracy.
Biden added in that speech that"MAGA Republicans are destroying American democracy," referring to Trump's"Make America Great Again" campaign cry and pointing to incidents like last year'sTrump said during his Saturday rally that Biden's Philadelphia appearance featured"the most vicious, hateful and divisive speech ever delivered by an American president.
Mary Kay Henry, president of the 2-million-member Service Employees International Union, called Biden championing unions heading into the midterms “critical” and said that the labor movement must “mobilize in battlegrounds across the country to ensure that working people turn out.” “We’re really excited about the president speaking directly to workers about, if he had the opportunity, he’d join a union,” Henry said. She added: “This president has signaled which side he’s on. And he’s on the side of working people. And that matters hugely.”
Biden, meanwhile, has personal history with Pittsburgh's Labor Day parade, which is among the nation's largest. He attended the 2015 installment as vice president and returned in 2018. Both times, Biden, now 79, faced questions about whether he’d run for president in upcoming elections — which he opted against in 2016 before winning the White House in 2020.
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