Joe Biden will launch his 2024 presidential campaign with a major speech today that will focus on the threat to democracy posed by Donald Trump, three years after the former president’s supporters invaded Congress.

The 81-year-old Democrat, who appears in the polls na fights chest to chest with Trump or just behind him, he will present his Republican opponent as a threat to the nation during a speech near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, a historic site in the American Revolutionary War.

The president would deliver the speech tomorrow, Saturday, exactly three years after the January 6, 2021 attack on Capitol Hill by Trump supporters who tried to block the validation of Biden’s victory in the presidential election. However, the speech will eventually take place today as there is a storm warning tomorrow.

Efforts to boost the campaign of Biden, who presents himself as a defender of democracy, will continue on Monday when the US president will visit a church in South Carolina where a white supremacist killed nine African-Americans in 2015.

The head of the Democratic campaign team, Julie Chavez Rodrigues, estimated that Biden’s speech four years ago, in which he declared that he was “waging a battle for the soul of America”, is more relevant than ever.

“The threat that Donald Trump represented to American democracy in 2020 has worsened in the years that followed,” she said in a statement.

“Scary”

After criticisms of some Democratswho feel that Biden’s campaign has gotten off to a slow start, there is a strong desire to give it a boost.

The president has failed to convince voters that the US economy is improving, despite positive indicators, with many Americans suffering from high housing costs and high food prices.

Other thorns for the Democrat are immigration and brainwashing of the southern US border, support for Israel’s war against Hamas which is dividing the party and the fact that Congress continues to block the approval of new military aid to Ukraine.

Biden’s refusal to address the many court cases pending against Trump in an effort to show he is not trying to influence the justice system has robbed him of one of his key weapons against the Republican.

But Biden’s biggest problem probably remains his age: his falls and the mistakes he makes in his speeches are closely scrutinized.

Trump appears ahead of Biden in many polls, while the Democrat’s approval rating was the lowest ever for a sitting president for the month of December before an election.

“If the election were held tomorrow, President Biden would lose,” said William Galston, an expert at the Brookings Institute.

In his speeches in South Carolina and Pennsylvania, Biden will directly address his opponent.

Besides, the Democrat’s first pre-election spot, which will be broadcast for the first time on television on Saturday, warns of the “extreme” threat to the Republic and includes images of the attack on the Capitol.

“It was a scary thing to watch,” White House spokeswoman Karin Jean-Pierre said Thursday. “The president will continue to talk about it,” he stressed.