Well, now to the race for the White House.
President Biden set to hit the campaign trail this afternoon
and layout what he sees as the stakes in this
election.
Our chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce has that.
Good morning, Mary. Good morning,
Eva. Yeah. President Biden is kicking off his reelection campaign
in earnest today in a big speech in battleground Pennsylvania.
He will argue that this race is an urgent fight
for American democracy.
The president will say that Donald Trump and far right
extremists are a threat and a danger to the very
freedoms on which this country is founded.
It is a message. That President Biden is echoing in
his first big campaign ad of the year.
And of course, this is a familiar theme for President
Biden.
He argued the 2020 campaign was a battle for the
soul of this nation,
and his campaign says that that threat to our democracy
has only grown.
They say a second Trump term would be even more
extreme and dangerous.
Now. The president, I am told,
has been closely and personally involved in writing these remarks,
even meeting with historians and scholars.
And that in the crowd at today's event,
which is being held near the historically significant site of
Valley Forge,
will be people who are inspired to get involved in
politics because of the events of January 6th and even
some elected officials who've been impacted by election denialism.
President is then expected to take this campaign message down
to South Carolina on Monday,
that critical first primary state for Democrats.
He's going to give a big speech there on political
violence and extremism at the historic Mother Emmanuel AMA Church,
which of course was that 2015 site of that horrific
massacre that killed 9 black Americans by a white supremacist,
George Mary Bruce. Thanks.