Joe Biden calls Donald Trump’s ‘MAGA crowd’ the ‘most extreme’ political group in US history
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US President Joe Biden has found his message for the midterm congressional elections: you’re either with him, or you’re with predecessor Donald Trump’s “MAGA crowd” – the “most extreme” political group in American history.
The 79-year-old president won the White House in 2020 promising to turn a page on the breathless, for many terrifying, Trump era.
Even as Trump kept fuming and lying about his election loss, Biden and his aides ignored him, long refusing so much as to mention his name. “The former guy”, they called him.
But heading into the November midterms, where Democrats face losing control of Congress and even his own re-election in 2024, Biden has changed his tune.
Why? Because however much he may have disappointed some Americans – on the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, for example, or the highest inflation in four decades, or anything else – he wants them to remember that Trump is in the wings.