WASHINGTON. US President Joe Biden urged Democrats to vote to save democracy “once again” when he called the Republican Party’s ideology “semi-fascist” during his campaign speech in suburban Washington before the midterm elections in November. .

Speaking to a crowded school stadium in Rockville on Thursday night, the President of the United States said: “The ability to define one’s body is decided at the polls this year. The same applies to social security, employment, protecting our children from the weapons of war and – I’m not exaggerating when I say this – the survival of our planet is decided this year at the polls. You must choose. Shall we be a country of progress or preservation?”

The Democratic Party is posting significant gains in the polls, causing even some traditionally pessimistic commentators to recoil at the prospect of maintaining or even strengthening Democratic control of both houses of the legislature. This unexpected momentum comes not from President Biden, whose popularity continues to rise, but from the rallying of Democratic voters after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the constitutional guarantee of the right to abortion. Before the campaign rally Thursday night, President Biden raised $1 million in donations to the Democratic Party.

A decisive role in rallying the Democrats was played by the decision of the Supreme Court to abolish the constitutional guarantee of the right to abortion.

For their part, Republicans have been vocal in their criticism of the statute of limitations on some low- and middle-income student debt. “Biden’s inflation is destroying families, and his response is to provide more public funds to well-paid elites. “Democrats are wasting hard-working Americans’ money to buy a little enthusiasm from their base,” Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said.

Biden clarified that his criticism is not directed at conservative Republicans, but at Trump’s extreme supporters. “What we are seeing is the beginning of the end of Trump’s extreme philosophy. It’s not just about Trump, it’s about the whole philosophy that supported him. It smacks of semi-fascism,” President Biden said.

However, Trump’s influence in the Republican Party remains strong and appears to have grown further following the FBI’s investigation into the Trump mansion in Mar-a-Lago, Florida. The opposition party is worried about the funding problems faced by many candidates in the midterm elections, which threaten to doom the party to retain opposition seats.

Source: AP