For months, President Biden has been running for president — quietly. But that’s about to change in a significant way.
The Biden reelection campaign is kicking into a new higher gear, with two presidential campaign events on tap in the next week. The president’s message will be unmistakable and stark, or as campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez put it, “We are running a campaign like the fate of our democracy depends on it. Because it does.”
Biden and his team are building a campaign around an increasingly likely rematch with Former President Donald Trump. In Valley Forge, Pa., on Saturday, campaign officials say, Biden will lay out the stakes for this election — for American democracy and freedom — in a location with Revolutionary War symbolism. But Saturday isn’t just any day: It’s the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, when Trump supporters violently tried to help him cling to power after he lost to Biden in 2020.
“The threat that Donald Trump posed in 2020 to American democracy has grown even more dangerous than it was when President Biden ran last time,” said deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks on a call with reporters.
There’s so many masses that are really feeling the pressure of the cost of living, millimetres away from rising up on their own. Loudly. If someone good tapped into that, and fuelled their hopes, it would be an avalanche.