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Biden sounds newly strong alarm: Trumpism menaces democracy

By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK
Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Joe Biden charged in a
prime-time address that the "extreme ideology" of Don-
ald Trump and his adherents "threatens the very founda-
tion of our republic," as he summoned Americans of all
stripes to help counter what he sketched as dark forces
within the Republican Party trying to subvert democracy.
In his speech Thursday night at Philadelphia's Independ-
ence Hall, Biden unleashed the trappings of the presi-
dency in an unusually strong and sweeping indictment
of Trump and what he said has become the dominant
strain of the opposition party. His broadside came barely
two months before Americans head to the polls in bitterly
contested midterm elections that Biden calls a crossroads
for the nation.
"Too much of what's happening in our country today is
not normal," he said before an audience of hundreds,
raising his voice over pro-Trump hecklers outside the
building where the nation's founding was debated. He
said he wasn't condemning the 74 million people who
voted for Trump in 2020 but added, "There's no question
that the Republican Party today is dominated by Donald
Trump and the MAGA Republicans," using the acronym
for Trump's "Make America Great Again" campaign slo- President Joe Biden arrives with first lady Jill Biden to speak outside Independence Hall, Thursday,
gan. Sept. 1, 2022, in Philadelphia.
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