Biden makes impassioned argument Trump could destroy American democracy as he opens 2024 campaign

(CNN) —& The value Americans place on democracy is the “most urgent question of our time,”& President Joe Biden& said during a speech kicking off his& 2024 campaign& in Pennsylvania on the eve of the third anniversary of the January 6 attack on the US Capitol – launching an impassioned political attack on his likely opponent& Donald Trump& that painted a sharp distinction between how the nation’s first and 45th presidents ended their terms. “Donald Trump’s campaign is about him, not America. Not you. Donald Trump’s campaign is obsessed with the past, not the future. He’s willing to sacrifice our democracy, put himself in power,” Biden said. The backdrop of Biden’s speech near Valley Forge, where George Washington rallied an undersupplied and demoralized Continental Army at the height of the American Revolution, gave the president the opportunity to contrast Washington, who would eventually set the precedent of relinquishing presidential power in the face of an adoring new nation, with Trump, who went to extraordinary& lengths to maintain his grip on power, encouraging his supporters to march to the Capitol as he refused to accept the result of the 2020 election. Biden sought to jolt the memories of Americans – who,...