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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Sep 1, 2022

There are public figures today, yesterday and the day before predicting and all but calling for mass violence and rioting in the streets. This is inflammatory. It’s dangerous. It’s against the rule of law, and we the people must say this…

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Sep 1, 2022

Democracy cannot survive when one side believes there are only two outcomes to an election. Either they win, or they were cheated. And that`s where the MAGA Republicans are today. They don`t understand what every patriotic American knows…

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Sep 1, 2022

Here we are, I am president, but the democracy is in peril, like 1860, like 1940. We are in a situation where few things go the wrong way, we could lose our system, our rule of law, our free and fair elections.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Sep 1, 2022

Democracy must be defended, for democracy makes all these things possible.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Sep 1, 2022

MAGA Republicans look at Americans seek carnage and darkness and despair. They spread fear and lies, lies tool for profit and power. But I see a different America and America with unlimited future. An America that is about to take off. I…

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Sep 1, 2022

MAGAs Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of law. They do not recognize the will of the people. They refuse to accept the results of a free election, and they’re working right now as I speak in…

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Sep 1, 2022

We can’t afford to have -- leave anyone on the sidelines. We need everyone to do their part.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Sep 1, 2022

There is no place for political violence in America, period, none, ever.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Sep 1, 2022

This is a nation that honors our Constitution. We do not reject it.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Sep 1, 2022

People turned out in droves to stand up for the principle that women should have the freedom to make their own decisions about their health care instead of politicians.

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Sep 1, 2022

That level of uncertainty is perilous for the country. The judge needs to rule speedily, so that everything that the intelligence community needs to complete its risk assessment, its review of our situation can be done expeditiously.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Sep 1, 2022

Equality and democracy are under assault. We do ourselves no favor to pretend otherwise.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Sep 1, 2022

This is a nation that rejects violence as a political tool. We do not encourage violence. We are still in America that believes in honesty and decency, and respect for others, patriotism, liberty, justice for all, hope, possibilities. We…

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Sep 1, 2022

I will not stand by and watch the will of the American people be overturned by wild conspiracy theories and baseless, evidence-free claims of fraud.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Sep 1, 2022

While the threat to American democracy is real, I want to say it as clearly as we can, we are not powerless in the face of these threats. We are not bystanders in this ongoing attack on democracy.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Sep 1, 2022

We must be stronger, more determined, and more committed to saving American democracy than MAGA Republicans are to destroying American democracy.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Sep 1, 2022

He said there were millions of Americans -- we don`t have a number -- who are a profound threat to American democracy because they don`t abide by the rules of American democracy and want to see it overturned.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Sep 1, 2022

I will defend our democracy with every fiber of my being, and I’m asking every American to join me.

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