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Previewing Joe Biden’s speech tonight ahead of next week’s midterms, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters the president is making an appeal to voters because of « an alarming number of Republican officials » who are « being very clear they’re not going to accept the results of these elections. »
She offered no examples to back her claim as polls indicate a growing « red wave » in which Republicans are competitive in many Democratic strongholds and are poised to regain the House and the Senate.
Biden is scheduled to speak at about 7 p.m. Eastern Time in the Columbus Club in Union Station, near the Capitol.
White House communications adviser Anita Dunn explained Wednesday the venue is Capitol Hill « because that’s where there was an attempt to subvert our democracy, » referring to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
Dunn brought up the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul Pelosi last week by a man whose statements to authorities demonstrated signs of severe mental illness.
« Obviously we’ve seen horrible things happen quite recently – the speaker’s husband,” she said in Washington, DC.
The host of the speech, the Democratic National Committee, said it will be about « preserving and protecting our democracy » and « the threat of election deniers and those who seek to undermine faith in voting and democracy. »
In a primetime speech Sept. 1 at Independence Hall, Biden – flanked by U.S. Marine Corps in a ghoulish, red-lit background – Biden sounded a similar theme.
