Blood red lighting, marines in uniform and one of the darkest speeches of his presidency. Joe Biden, in a rare direct attack on his Republican predecessor, on Thursday denounced the “extremism” of Donald Trump and his supporters, accusing them of shaking the “very foundations” of American democracy, in the city that was the cradle. In Philadelphia (east), he proclaimed: “Donald Trump and the ”MAGA Republicans” represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic”. The former president, and those who subscribe to his “Make America Great Again” ideology, “do not respect the Constitution. They don’t believe in the rule of law. They do not recognize the will of the people, “hammered the Democratic president, in a speech that the White House had promised” major. Duel against Donald Trump in sight in 2024 The Democrat, who had held his first candidate meeting in Philadelphia President, also knows that the state where the city is located, Pennsylvania, may hold the key to the legislative elections in November. And therefore the rest of his mandate. The entire speech of the leader of the Democrats has shown his desire to dramatize this election, traditionally unfavorable to the party that holds the White House, to make it nothing more or less than a referendum on Donald Trump. Representatives of the radical right “ applaud anger. They feed on chaos. They do not live in the light of truth, but in the shadow of lies,” chanted the 79-year-old president, who wants to galvanize the Democratic electorate and convince the undecided. “Fuck Joe Biden”Joe Biden had already sang the refrain during his campaign about the “battle” to be waged for “the soul of America”, but on a softer tune: that of reconciliation and calls for unity. For a long time, this former senator, a veteran of politics, sang of the virtues of cooperation with Republicans of good will. Nothing like this on Thursday evening. “Not all Republicans adhere to this extreme ideology”, he certainly admitted, but to better shoot this arrow afterwards: “There is no doubt that the Republican Party of today Today is dominated, driven and intimidated by Donald Trump” and his supporters. Denouncing the billionaire’s persistent and unfounded attacks on the validity of the 2024 election, Joe Biden dropped: “You can’t love your country only when you win.” While Donald Trump on Thursday promised to pardon if re-elected those convicted of the January 6, 2021 Capitol assault, the Democratic president said there was “no room for violence. politics in the United States”, and considered that contesting an election led to “chaos”. When during his speech, a group of opponents gathered nearby launched in chorus “Fuck Joe Biden”, he retorted: “They have the right to be indignant. It is democracy. “Democrats dream of a feat in NovemberAccording to a poll published Thursday by the Wall Street Journal, if the midterm legislative elections were held today, 47% of voters would vote Democrat and 44% Republican. The right still had a lead of 5 points in March. The Democrats are dreaming of a feat during this election which renews the entire House of Representatives and a third of the Senate. Opinion polls are not infallible and, in American political life, two months is an eternity. But the political debate has shifted since the beginning of the summer, abandoning economic subjects to come to the land of the right to abortion, societal achievements, concerns about democracy – so many promising themes for the Democrats. In their first reactions Thursday, the Republicans also tried to return to issues that are more favorable to them. . “All is well for the soul of America. Americans are suffering because of your policy. Creeping inflation. Crime out of control. The rise of terrorism. Borders destroyed. Stop your sermons, ”responded Senator Lindsey Graham, loyal among the followers of Donald Trump, to Joe Biden.