Of hanging the former vice president and the speaker of the house. here s president biden speaking in the battleground state of pennsylvania. (tx sot trump s mob weren t a peaceful protest. it was a violent assault. they were insurrectionists, not patriots. they weren t there to protect the constitution, they were there to destroy the constitution. donald trump won t do what a us president needs to he won t denounce political violence. as we begin the election year, we must be clear democracy is on the ballot. your freedom is on the ballot. applause later on friday, former president trump held a rally in iowa, where he responded to president biden s warnings about democracy. he called the speech a pathetic fearmongering campaign event, and called president biden s record an unbroken streak of weakness, incompetence, corruption and failure. donald trump also repeated false claims that the 2020 election was rigged
We have become too divided. dana: the biden campaign is targeting donald trump and maga extremism. he is planning to warn voters that a vote for trump could end democracy. chris tomlinson is live in blue bell, pennsylvania where the president will be campaigning today. hi, lucas. hi, dana. president biden is returning here to the critical battleground state of pennsylvania. a state he has visited more than any other state since becoming president. we re only 15 miles away from george washington s winter encampment at valley forge and president biden going to philadelphia ahead of the mid-term elections flanked by marine corps. yesterday karine jean-pierre explained why the president has come back here. january 6th was an unprecedented attack on our core principles and democracy and the rule of law and our constitution. this is something that the president takes very seriously.
Pennsylvania, near valley forge. hi, lucas. hi, martha, moments away from president biden speaking in the critical battleground state of pennsylvania. a state he has visited more than any other stay in the union. of course outside of his home state of delaware since becoming president. we are only 15 miles away from valley forge. george washington, in the winter 77-1778, president biden landed valley forge towards the facility hello ground and 4,000 soldiers of washington s froze over the mentor and had to chop down trees and build 2,000 log cabins. meanwhile, the british forces in pennsylvania. no doubt president biden will come here and perhaps replay the manuscript, the playbook, if you will from the midterms. we spoke in philadelphia independence whole ahead of the midterms. any think those marine corps sentries. the mood was very dark. that red light as you see behind
Correspondent m.j. lee. she is over at the white house. m.j., tell us more about the president s message in this, his first campaign speech of 2024. reporter: yeah, wolf. president biden returned once again to the critical battleground state of pennsylvania to launch the 2024 election year. the campaign chose a venue near the revolutionary war site of valley forge where the president invoked george washington and his words, a sacred cause, to describe what he is fighting for as he now seeks a second term. today we re here to answer the most important of questions. is democracy still america s sacred cause? it is what the 2024 election is all about. reporter: in his inaugural campaign speech of the new year, president joe biden warning of the stark and urgent stakes of the upcoming presidential election. the president repeatedly excoriating donald trump. donald trump s campaign is
yeah, trump had the big crowd in iowa and another one at a rally in the battleground state of pennsylvania over the weekend. he s continuing to suggest, trump is, that the bidens were involved in a bribery scheme with burisma, the ukraine energy company where hunter biden once served on the board. at the pennsylvania rally, trump demanded further military aid to ukraine be withheld until the biden administration turns over everything related to the biden family s business dealings. joe biden is compromised. he is dragging us into a global conflict on behalf of the very same country, ukraine, that apparently paid his family all of these millions of dollars. in light of this information, the u.s. congress should refuse to authorize a single additional payment of our depleted stockpiles. but the weapon stockpiles to ukraine until the fbi, doj and
Against him in 2020. it is difficult to imagine a scenario where those people are persuaded that these are deep state conspiracies meant to get him and, therefore, he has earned their support yet again. but in the republican party, there is nothing, willie, that has shaken trump s hold on the majority of that party, on his base who is willing to go with him wherever he leads them. this next couple of days is going to be an interesting political moment. we have the superseding indictment. we have the january 6th coming soon. tonight, as we mentioned, all the republicans, save for chris christie, the one republican who is willing to take it to trump, he won t be there, but all the other republicans will be in iowa. do they say anything? odds are no. tomorrow, donald trump has a rally in the key battleground state of pennsylvania, a state he won in 2016, lost narrowly four years ago, and he is going to make the same claims again, that he is a victim and his followers are still with him. in fact, the effect of all these indictments has been just the opposite, his support has gone up as he paints himself the
Literally every day until november of next year. polls are a snapshot. polls do not tell the whole story. we are a long way from the first caucuses. we are a very long way from election day. were you raising the roof john avlon? i haven t introduced you yet. you guys should see what he just did. it s the raising of the roof. in the critical battleground state of pennsylvania, president biden, president trump just about even. in wisconsin the latest poll, critical poll this that state finds biden leading trump 52 to 43. that polling comes as donald trump continues to maintain front runner status in the gop primary despite those growing legal threats. chris christie slamming trump last night to our kaitlan collins on cnn calling him a grifter for using fund-raising donations for his legal defense. he s going to middle class
Humidity only working as fuel as these storms continue to erupt tonight in areas like oklahoma city down towardsal dal and little that severe threat then shifts farther east for father s day. in little rock, greenville, jackson, mississippi, we could see damaging winds, very large hail, and the threat for isolated tornadoes. whit. thank you. difficult holiday weekend for millions. appreciate it. now to the race for the white house and president biden stumping in the critical battleground state of pennsylvania. the president touring a recently collapsed section of i-95 in philadelphia saying there s no more important project in the country right now. later holding his first re-election rally in that city. tonight, gop candidates also hitting the trail. abc s karen travers in philadelphia. reporter: tonight, president biden kicking off his 2024 re-election campaign in the critical battleground state of pennsylvania.
In the same place that they were a year ago without a cogent argument. you have certain republicans calling for more extreme laws and others saying, this has gone too far we are losing races across the country. i think that there was a lack of acknowledgement and slowly we re seeing republicans sound the alarm of how galvanizing this issue is for democrats. i was out on the campaign trail in the battleground state of pennsylvania last year, and it s not only young women that were concerned about the future of reproductive health care in this country. it was young men as well standing on line to get into the john fetterman rally now senator fender mons rally and i approached the young man. college student asked him what was his number one issue and he told me, you know, i m really concerned about my mom. my friends, my sister, and so, uh, i think that republicans underestimated the strength of
Including a 7.5 within the last hour. we ll continue to follow. as we monitor that, we have new reporting this morning about what is happening in washington as democratic party leaders say that president biden may still be the ticket for 2024 even if they re not passionate about him. this after the president and vice president turned out for the democratic national committee meeting in the critical battleground state of pennsylvania. that is just ahead of president biden s expected state of the union address on tuesday. what are they saying about how they re viewing what that 2024 ticket could look sflik. i was in philadelphia for that meeting of the democratic national committee. those are the state party chairs, the most involved party operatives. they say, look, they re so happy with what biden has gotten done. really satisfied with a sense of calm that he brought to a lot of things in washington and in the party overall.