Biden’s First 2024 Campaign Ad Focuses on “Extremist” Threat to Democracy

The president’s campaign team Joe Biden revealed on Thursday its first television advertisement for the 2024 electionswhich warns of the threat “extremist”to democracy with images of the invasion of Congress by a mob recorded on January 6, 2021.

The piece, titled “Cause”, will be broadcast for the first time on Saturday, on the third anniversary of the historic assault on the Capitol by hundreds of followers of the then president donald trump (2017-2021), which left five dead, including a police officer.

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“We all ask ourselves now: what will we do to maintain our democracy?“, says Biden in an excerpt taken from a speech the president gave in the state of Arizona last year.

“There’s something dangerous going on U.S. There is an extremist movement that does not share the basic creeds of our democracy”, adds the announcement, released in the early hours of Thursday on social media.

During the one-minute short, Biden does not mention by name former President Trump – the clear favorite for the 2024 Republican nomination – whom he defeated in 2020.

But over the dramatic propaganda music, images of banners in favor of donald trump carried by the January 6th protesters, as well as a noose with noose.

Also included are photographs of white supremacists with torches at a political rally in Charlottesville in 2017.

The campaign for Joe Biden increasingly illustrates this election as a fight for American democracy against Trump, including a speech to the same effect from President Biden in Pennsylvania Friday.

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Polls show a head-to-head matchup between Biden and Trump, despite the 77-year-old Republican billionaire facing multiple criminal trials, including one linking him to the Jan. 6 riots.

Biden campaign manager Julie Chávez Rodríguezsaid that Republicans “they redoubled”Threats to undermine the elections.

“This announcement serves as a very real reminder that this election could very well determine the fate of American democracy.“, Chavez said in a statement.

Source: Elcomercio

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