US President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Donald Trump’s supporters form the “most extremist group that has ever existed in US history”. The phrase was said in a conversation with journalists about the leak of the draft that indicates that the country’s Supreme Court will reverse the right to abortion.
This is an escalation in the president’s rhetoric months before the midterm elections in November. The election could even undo the narrow Democratic majority in the House and Senate – in the latter case, Vice Kamala Harris, as Speaker of the House, has the power of the tie-breaking vote.
“What are the next things [eles] will attack? ‘Cause this MAGA crowd [sigla para Make America Great Again, slogan da campanha de Trump] It’s really the most extreme political organization that has ever existed in the history of the United States, in the recent history of the United States,” Biden said.
An eventual reversal of access to abortion by the Supreme Court can be explained by changes in the composition of the court during the Trump administration. During his term, the former president had the right to appoint three judges, increasing the number of conservative-biased magistrates in the court to six.
Biden also attacked Republicans on the economic flank, saying the party’s initiatives are pro-billionaires. The topic came up at a time when the Democrat was trying to show off his government’s economic achievements, heavily pressured by the historic inflation of 8.5% in 12 months. Although the rise is due to global reflexes, critics point out that the rise in prices can be explained by excessive spending by the White House amid Covid, in addition to global supply restrictions.
At campaign pace, the Democrat described Republican economic policies as “extreme, like most things MAGA,” an extension of earlier statements in which the US president said the opposition had become a movement led by Trump.
Biden also said the annual US deficit has been falling, unlike during the Trump administration. According to him, the country’s debt fell by more than US$ 350 billion (R$ 1.8 trillion) in its first year and is expected to fall by more than US$ 1.5 trillion this year – which would be the biggest deficit reduction in a year. single year ever recorded. “The result is that the deficit has increased every year under my predecessor, before the pandemic and during the pandemic. And it has decreased in the last two years since I’ve been here,” he said.
The Democrat avoids, whenever possible, mentioning the name of his political opponent, but this is a difficult task: although he was defeated in 2020, Trump exerts great political influence in his party, and the Republican is considering running again for the American presidency in 2020. 2024.
Republicans, on the other hand, argue that the current president is not responsible for the fall in debt. For them, if Democratic proposals had passed, they would only have increased the deficit.
