At a fundraiser on Thursday night at a $3 million Bethesda, Maryland house, President Joe Biden accused the former president Donald Trump and “radical” Republicans of “semi-fascism.”
About 100 affluent contributors listened as Biden said, “What we’re witnessing today is either the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA mentality.”
“It’s not just Trump; it’s the whole mindset that supports it. I’m going to say it’s like semi-fascism,” the speaker said.
In addition to gay marriage and reproductive rights being on the ballot in November, the president cautioned that the GOP would once again target Obamacare.
“This is not the Republican party of your father.” He recited a phrase he often uses while speaking at fundraising events, “This is a different transaction.
It was anticipated that the tiny gathering in Bethesda, a posh suburb of Washington, D.C., would earn $1 million for the Democratic Grassroots Victory Fund and the Democratic National Committee.
The DNC said on Thursday that the party has raised $92 million so far this year and ‘a midterm record’ of $255 million this cycle.
The president was criticised by an RNC spokesperson for returning from his two-state, three-home vacation on Wednesday, only to headline a fundraiser in the affluent D.C. suburbs the following day.
According to RNC spokeswoman Emma Vaughn, “in true Biden manner, he comes back after weeks of vacation just to hobnob with leftist elites within the Beltway, instead of solving the myriad issues he caused.” If only Biden was as committed to helping families and hardworking Americans as he was to arranging his vacations.
He will be the featured speaker at a DNC event later on Thursday in Rockville, Maryland, at Richmond Montgomery High School.
He will be joined there by DNC Chair Jaime Harrison, Wes Moore, Aruna Miller, and Brooke Lierman, the Democratic candidates for governor, lieutenant governor, and comptroller of Maryland, respectively.
Attendees will also include Maryland Democratic Party Chair Yvette Lewis, Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin, Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, a significant member of the January 6 House select committee, and Maryland House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer.
Despite being invited, First Lady Jill Biden is still at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. On Wednesday, she tested positive for COVID-19 once again as a rebound case despite taking the antiviral medication Paxlovid.