Mr. Biden honed in on the dual topics during an address to more than 150 of the Democratic National Committee’s top donors on Friday. The 80-year-old White House incumbent said the upcoming presidential campaign would be a choice between “freedom” and “extremism.”
“This is not your father’s Republican party,” said Mr. Biden. “Let’s protect a woman’s right to choose and codify Roe v. Wade.” “They fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights,” Mr. Biden said at Pennsylvania’s Independence Hall last September. “MAGA forces are determined to take this country backward … to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love.”
Yet, Mr. Biden’s allies note the message seemed to work in 2022. Despite nearly 40-year high inflation and low presidential approval ratings, Republicans failed to deliver a “red wave.”