Reporting by Jeff Mason and Trevor Hunnicutt ; editing by Rami Ayyub
WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden accused Donald Trump, his likely rival in the 2024 presidential contest, of sacrificing U.S. democracy for power in a Pennsylvania speech marking the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol.
In his first major campaign speech of the year, he applied the heat on Trump as his campaign pushed against questions about his handling of the U.S. economy and his age, 81. Trump is 77.
Biden said Trump’s re-election bid is based on trying to seek “revenge and retribution” against his political enemies. He reminded Americans that Trump has called his opponents “vermin,” the “same language used in Nazi Germany.”
Trump’s presidential campaign is “all about him, not America,” Biden said. He said the former president is “willing to sacrifice our democracy” to put himself in power.
The upcoming election is “all about whether democracy is still America’s sacred cause,” he said.
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