Chinanews.com, Beijing, September 3rd, question: Biden Trump's "talking battle" in the air is all for...
Author Guan Na
"The Republican Party is now dominated, driven and intimidated by Trump and 'MAGA' Republicans."
"Equality and democracy are under attack."
"Biden must be crazy."
These remarks are not messages from netizens that can be seen everywhere on the Internet, but come from two US presidents.
Recently, U.S. President Biden and former President Trump have frequently attacked each other through social media and TV networks.
This is not the old grudge between the two, but the US midterm elections in November have entered the sprint stage.
At this moment, the battle between the two parties has heated up. As a key figure in the Democratic Party, Biden has also begun to turn the tide, from avoiding public naming to outspoken criticism, in order to gain more support before the election battle.
"The sharpest accusation to date"
The most public, pointed accusations came during the primetime hours on the evening of September 1.
Biden, who delivered a speech in Philadelphia's Independence Hall, denounced Trump and his supporters with fiery words, and even declared, "As I stand here tonight, equality and democracy are under attack."
On August 30, 2022, local time, U.S. President Joe Biden delivered a speech at Wilkes University in Pennsylvania.
Biden called on Americans to unite against the dark forces within the Republican Party that are trying to subvert democracy.
He described the threat to the country that today's Republican Party is dominated, driven and intimidated by Trump and the "MAGA Republicans" (MAGA means Trump's campaign slogan, Make America Great Again).
He also warned that their attempts to undermine American democracy could turn violent.
CNN commented that this is Biden's "most pointed accusation so far" of some Republicans and their "loyalty" words and deeds following Trump.
The Associated Press also said that Biden made unusually strong and comprehensive allegations against Trump.
"Biden has clearly marginalized Trump and his followers, marking a drastic turn for him recently." The Associated Press analyzed that in his first year in office, Biden basically avoided mentioning Trump's name, but Now he is getting louder and louder to name Trump himself.
As Trump returned to the headlines, he also stepped up his attacks.
'Biden must be crazy'
Trump, who lost his Twitter account, is not "aphasia."
He countered on his own social platform "Truth Social" that Biden "must be crazy" or "has dementia."
Data map: Former US President Trump.
"Someone should explain to Joe Biden slowly and passionately that MAGA means...make America great again! If he doesn't want to make America great again through words, actions, and thoughts, then he certainly shouldn't represent the United States of America !" Trump wrote.
This statement has also gained support within the Republican Party.
House Minority Leader McCarthy also hit back, saying Biden was creating divisiveness.
The Republican National Committee issued a statement saying that Biden used the presidency to label those who disagree with his agenda as "dangerous" and to "set America down the wrong path."
"Vote for the midterm elections"
The "mouth battle" between Biden and Trump happened just two months before the highly competitive midterm elections.
Pennsylvania, where Biden's speech on September 1 is located, has always been a "strife" in U.S. elections, and it is crucial for the two parties to control the Senate and House of Representatives.
To this end, CNN believes that this speech is a sharp and urgent appeal to Americans. Although this speech is quite official, it is actually full of canvassing for the mid-term elections.
Although White House officials insisted that Biden's message was not partisan, but aimed at extreme factions of the Republican Party.
But he still called on the audience to vote in November and lashed out at Trump, and the inclination is self-evident.
The midterm elections are approaching, and the political winds in the United States are unpredictable.
Since the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago and took away a large number of classified documents, the bipartisan struggle has begun to tear American society apart again.
Ordinary Americans have begun to worry - a new poll conducted in August showed that more than 40% of Americans believe that a civil war is likely to break out in the next 10 years.